June 1, 1969: John and Yoko Record "Give Peace a Chance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yU0JuE1jTk

He wear no shoeshine, he got

On September 26, 1969 the album Abbey Road was released in the United States.  I remember waiting in line to buy my copy.  I took it home and after dinner my friends and I listened to it.  The song "Come Together" (originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary's run for California governor against Ronnie Raygun, among others) had been on the radio for a while.  I listened to that album over and over and over.  It is still on my playlist and it always makes me happy these days then when a song from the album plays in my ears on my walk to work.   Abbey Road and the Stones Let it Bleed made it clear that things were going to be a little different in the 1970s.

Let There Be Rock

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/01/let-there-be-rock/

Blast From the Past--1969

This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/

The Playlist

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2015/08/if-daydream-sunset60s-counterculture-in.html