In Search of the Lost Chord

Description of book

'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable


guides you could ask for to 1967.' Ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
'Weaves together rollicking, rousing, wonderfully colourful and


disparate narratives to remind us how the energies and aspirations of the


counterculture were intertwined with protest and reform … mesmerising.' The Nation

It was


the year that saw the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club


Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and


Janis Joplin. The year of the Summer of Love and LSD; the Monterey Pop Festival


and Black Power; Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance and Martin


Luther King Jr's public opposition to war in Vietnam.


On its 50th anniversary, music business veteran


Danny Goldberg analyses 1967, looking not only at the political influences, but


also the spiritual, musical and psychedelic movements that defined the era,


providing a unique perspective on how and why its legacy lives on today.


Exhaustively researched and informed by


interviews including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Gil Scott-Heron,
In


Search of the Lost Chord is the synthesis of a fascinating and


complicated period in our social and countercultural history that was about so


much more than sex, drugs and rock n roll.