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Summer of love

Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll: Cif bloggers write about the Summer of Love, 40 years on
  • A year in black and white

    Lemn Sissay

    Lemn Sissay: Summer of Love: For many, it was a summer of hate.

  • Legacy of the hippie trail

    Rory Maclean

    Rory Maclean: Summer of Love: In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of young westerners flocked east. Was it a hippie backlash that inspired al-Qaida?

  • Castles made of sand

    Khaled Diab

    Summer of Love: The spirit of the 1960s touched the Arab world too, but rapidly faded away.

  • Yvonne Roberts

    Peace, protest and kaftans

    Yvonne Roberts

    Yvonne Roberts: Summer of Love: Social upheaval, fresh ideas, new ways of organising and powerful demonstrations mushroomed.

  • Closed doors of perception

    Andrew Feldmár

    Andrew Feldmár: Summer of Love: I was accused of "moral turpitude" for publishing an article in a respected journal about the uses of LSD in psychotherapy.

  • The selfishness of free love

    Jill Kirby
  • Disney, as never seen before

    Paul Krassner
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