“Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” a medley of two songs from the musicalHair. It wasn’t just one of the biggest hits of the year, but a song that continues to define the era when counterculture ideas were infiltrating the mainstream. However, “we...
Saturday Night Live’s reputation as a vehicle for biting political satire is overblown, especially by the show itself. Originally emerging from post-Watergate American counterculture comedy,SNLwas quickly revealed as more revolutionary about the medium of television than about politics, the show’s pe...
Much of the beginning of disco was a form of counterculture to the dominance of rock music in the 1960s. By the late 1970s, most cities had disco clubs, and the disco club scene was thriving. Some of the most well-known artists that contributed to disco are: Bee Gees KC and the Sun...
Imagine this: you’re surrounded by your skate crew, your board’s in pieces, but with a little creativity and some common household items, you’re about to become the hero of the day. Why Might You Be Without a Skate Tool? Maybe you forgot your tool, or perhaps it slipped out of y...
No one made more of the small screen than this dirt-poor son of Jewish immigrants whose sense of glitz, glam and story spanned 'Charlie's Angels,' 'The Love Boat' and 'Dynasty' (ABC was nicknamed "Aaron's Broadcasting Company") and is recalled
the influence that Bob Dylan’s songwriting and music had on the generation that came of age during the period. When Dylan wrote “Times They Are A-Changin’,” which first appeared in the album of the same name in 1964, it galvanized the general feeling of the 1960s counterculture. ...
Feminism had officially become a job requirement for female pop stars, and this was proof. For a few years before Beyoncé’s embrace of the movement, journalists had been asking female pop stars the pointed question in interview after interview: “Are you a feminist?”Lady Gaga,Taylor Swift,...
Don and Johnny Are Still Atlantic Stars; THE ATLANTICS Were Formed from the Hepjacks at a Time When Rock 'N' Roll Was Young, the Legendary Buddy Holly Was Still Alive (Just) and a Rag-Tag Hoard of British Skiffle Bands Were All Looking to America for Inspiration and Were Discoverin...
The Seventies Shift: When Michael Barone Began His Career as a Political Observer, Los Angeles Was like Des Moines by the Sea and America Was Transfixed by the Vietnam War and the Counterculture. Nobody Saw the Deeper Forces That Were Beginning to Transform the Nation By Barone, Michael ...