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    theguardian UK world poi football opinion tech travel IN sections Acid trips, black power and computers: how San Francisco's hippy explosion shaped the modern world ee eee culture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham take Sates sre emetic e nna eevee eet eye-catching front-page headline: “Dame Margot, Nureyev seized in hippie raid” Police had busted apart in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, and unexpectedly ensnared two world-famous gatecrashers: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had been in the city all of four hours. "Marijuana cigarettes \were found at the scene,’ noted the paper, although the two ballet dancers had to be zeleased as there was no evidence that they had been smoking them. A high-spirited Nureyev had, however, performed ajet@into the back ofa police Wesieeet van O 1112 July 1967, Florida newspaper the St Petersburg Times had an ‘Alex Needham, sindy2}Augst 2016 Fonteyn and Nureyev were two ofan estimated 100,000 people who descended ome ‘on San Francisco to locate the action during the crugged-up summer of lve. It turned out that everything was happening. There were anti-Vietnam protests on QOOO trecsmpusarnereteysoxkiands Ncan-Amercn evostionary movement, Mstpopular eon the Black Panthers, marched on the state capital while openly armed; and bands Mm such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin, performed on stage at venues such as the Avalon and the Fillmore, theiracid-sodden psychedelia expressing the preaceupations of counterculture from surrealism to sex. Tearful Lynsey Sharp says ule change makes racing Caster Semenya siti ‘Pokémon Go is just Team GBS second place the tart-Silicon Valley 44 performance artists and community activists such as the Diggers - DD isctyorscane istaking over one ‘who, freaked out by the weekendets, announced the death of the undedines value not reality, hippie in October 1967 and staged a mock funeral - tothe retina price of gold medal lerecer ares searing, tripped-out aesthetics ofthe time on record sleeves, gig Andy Bul posters and in fashion, and you had an unprecedented mass © sevaimore ‘experiment. The subject was the rejection of conventional society with Rio Olympics: Bra win sens volleyball oid (BS joyce kes boxing sver-livel its racism, warfare and repression; nd the construction of alternative realities ll this was duly transmitted by an astounded mass media to living rooms around the world, while records such as the Heatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band formed a clarion cal forthe counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic. Two weeks after its release on 1 une, it was played ‘over the speakers at Monterey Pop, arguably the first music festival ‘New Zealandand US runnersawarded for sportsmanship Creat stan confirmed tofinish second in Bio 2016 Olympic medal ‘able ‘Then there were those hippies who were heading for the countryside t live communally witha copy of the Whole Earth Catalog which contained a wealth of information from the best kerosene lamps to which book on goat husbandry to buy. Over at Stanford University, meanwhile, scientists were working on developments in personal computing that would lay the foundations for Silicon Valley and create the future - our present. Wsa story on kaleidoscopic scale, and this autumn the Victoria & Albert ‘Museum in London wil attempt to tell it through an exhibition Entitled You Say You Wanta Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970, the show intends to delineate how the world transformed in those few seismic years, taking in ‘swinging London, the student rotsin Pars, and the moon landings - the latter of| \which were, says co-curator Geoffrey Marsh, “the boldest of human gestures”. [Marsh and fellow co-curator Victoria Broackes ereated the V8’ blockbuster David Bowie exhibition in 2013. Like that show, this one promises to use music, objects and images not only to reanimate pop and social history but also to evoke ‘something ofthe magic and mania ofthat tumultuous period. I's also a salutary Vcurssns reminder of the peace, lave and understanding that underpinned the hippie {deals - qualities that seem in short supply in 2016, ‘Tocreate the exhibition, the VA has gathered objects ranging from Airplane singer Grace Slick's Kaan to the frst computer mouse, and spoken toa host of surviving members ofthe counterculture. ‘Over the course ofa few days in San Francisco, guided by Broackes,lalso meet some of these paradigm-shifting former hippies, and vist thesites ofthe greatest upheaval We go to the steps of the University of California at Berkeley's Sproul Hall, where Mario Savio, spokesman for the free speech movement, made hisastoundingly passionate speech inspiring his fellow students to stagea sitin and stop “the operation of the machine”. The free speech protests marked a ditect link from the civil rights movement, in which Savie had participated, tothe anti-war protests that would convulse Berkeley at the end of the Gas, just asthe Beatnik ofthe previous decade, suchas Allen ‘Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, had profoundly influenced the hippies We meet Rick Moss, curator atthe African American Museum in Oakland, who was 12 when the Black Panthers started galvanising his San Francisco community. "twas, very empowering becauseat no point in your upbringing wore you ever given examples of where black people were standing up for themselves." he says. “So when you see guys ‘swaggering to the stat capitol and they're having their weapons, it's like The Lone Ranger. We were like: “This is treat! This is what you do, you stand up to injustice” Then there are the artists who defined the aesthetics of psychedelia. One, Joe McHugh, created a Jefferson Airplane-inspited poster called White Rabbit, which depicted a rabbit standing ona chessboard, the words “feed your head” Resty < Shore Hapoyheacts * Wel ars ery fine but why a mention ofthe quintessential Feo band Quksver 7 Resly Happyheoaie. Snve on ‘They dt record well, despite the elLance of Mey Hopi (yes, of he Stones ashe albums) 2nd pplena zd is iby Reply -

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