In Search of the Lost Chord : 1967 and the Hippie Idea

In Search of the Lost Chord : 1967 and the Hippie Idea
ISBN: 9781785782954
Publication Date: 1 October 2017

A rollercoaster new history for the 50th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love', from a music business veteran who was actually there.

In Search of the Lost Chord is Danny Goldberg's unique eyewitness history of these epochal twelve months, which saw the flowering of the Haight-Ashbury hippie community in San Francisco, the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and debut albums from The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It was the year of the Summer of Love and LSD; the Monterey Pop Festival; Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance and Martin Luther King Jr's public opposition to the war in Vietnam; Black Power; the Six-Day War and Che Guevara's murder.

Exhaustively researched and informed by interviews including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Gil Scott-Heron (one of Goldberg's high school classmates), In Search of the Lost Chord is a refreshing new analysis of the era and provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.

About the Author

Danny Goldberg is an author and rock music industry veteran. He is president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and The Hives. Previously, he was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt), chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records. He was also Zeppelin's publicist in the early 70s and had his first break reporting on Woodstock for Billboard Magazine in 1969. He lives in New York City.