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Imagery from ’70s issues of Seed, the UK’s pioneering Journal of Organic Living which connected healthy eating with the ecology and counterculture movements of the ’70s Craig Sams, along with his brother Gregory (creator of the original VegeBurger) and fa…

I had heard the story of the Fleetwood Mac “Munich Incident” of 1970, when the band attended a party at a castle in the forest owned by mysterious “rich hippies” who gave the band large quantities of LSD, which allegedly psychologically “destroyed” guitar…

Imagery from ‘70s issues of Spare Rib, a pioneering UK women’s liberation magazine founded by Rosie Boycott (previously of Frendz underground newspaper) and Marsha Rowe.

Footage from ‘W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism’ (1971) by Dušan Makavejev.

Pentangle getting more electric than usual on Australian TV circa 1972.

Early ‘70s shots from the Sausalito hippie houseboat scene by photographer Pirkle Jones.

‘Lapis’ by James Whitney (1966).

From ‘Catherine and John Fagan: Woodbury Alternative Living’ (1973) via the Vermont Historical Society.

Cult Time: Footage of Rajneeshpuram at its peak, from ‘Gods of the New Age’ (1984).

From the BBC Man Alive series, 1970, about the “hippie trail” which generally ran from London → Amsterdam → Istanbul → Tehran → Kabul → India → Kathmandu.

Pathé footage from the office of underground newspaper Frendz circa 1971, featuring Baroness Rosie Boycott, who’s now a member of the House of Lords in the UK Parliament.

From ‘The Touchables’ (1968) by Robert Freeman.

From ‘Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate’ (1970) by Joe Gannon, featuring pop/op-art artist Larry Smart and footage of the famous Portobello Road street market.

Lynn Darnton and the Tribe of the Sacred Mushroom, 1968 vs 1978, from the BBC’s Everyman series.

Footage from Permissive (1970) by Lindsay Shonteff, featuring the music of Scottish post-psychedelic group Forever More.

European TV footage of Swiss psychedelic/prog band Krokodil circa 1972, with some nice kaleidoscopic touches.

Tangerine Dream played at Coventry Cathedral in England in October 1975, and filmmaker Tony Palmer captured it with psychedelic video processing effects for broadcast on BBC2.

From ‘Everybody Rides the Carousel’ (1976) by Faith and John Hubley, featuring the voice of Meryl Streep.

Candid shots from the streets of Cambridge, MA circa 1971, by Nick DeWolf.