When it comes to iconic moments in rock history, one can include the Beatles’ rooftop concert, Jimi Hendrix’s literally incendiary set at the Monterey International Pop Festival, the 1973 Kool Herc party that helped launch hip-hop and, of course, Alice Cooper and the chicken.
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Fair, being held over two weekends currently, is an annual event at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert and is often.
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The hippies' anti-materialistic lifestyle and rejection of conformity and consumerism was a continuation of the wave started by the Beat Generation, who had experimented with drugs, sexuality, and travel. As early as 1964, the media started using the term hippie. It became synonymous with anti-war protests, and hippies started adopting the slang terms created by the Beat writers and subscribing to the countercultural ideas they instilled in them. As a result of LSD and marijuana use, the musical landscape changed drastically. Let's take a look at the story behind "San Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon and The Animals.