The BBC eulogizes Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett dead at 60.
Summer of Love
“Over the subsequent months, everything changed.
“The record was a hit on the charts, even though the BBC banned it. What had been underground became mainstream, and suddenly became the exciting scene of 1967 and the Summer of Love.
“I think Pink Floyd were really at the heart of it – the songs, the guitar-playing and the personality of Syd were, in a way, the spearhead of so much of what went on, the aesthetic of what happened in London in 1967.
London Free School
After the 1965 beat poetry happening, the next key event in the history of British counter-culture was the London Free School.
This community action group has been described as an ‘anarchic temporary coalition’ of housing activists and the new hippy generation. [… and included the Beatles manager Brian Epstein plus RD Laing.]
… it was “an idea – it lasted for a few months and so many interesting things came out of it.