In Search of the Lost Chord

Music business veteran Danny Goldberg provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.

The 1967 “Summer of Love”—set against the backdrop of increased racial tension, the Vietnam War, a burgeoning drug culture, and an exploding new music scene—propelled the counterculture philosophy of peace and love into the mainstream. Although this sudden surge of unironic idealism disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, the cultural effects of 1967 can still be felt today. A half century later, Goldberg reexamines this pivotal year, stripping away the reductive clichés that obscure the radical idealism of countercultural movements, and explores how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today through movements like Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the political revolution espoused by the like of Bernie Sanders.