Sex and Drugs and Rolling Stone
It was 1967 in San Francisco, and 21-year-old Jann Wenner was seeing his generation flood the world with two roaring currents: alternative culture and radical politics.
Jefferson Airplane was filling the Fillmore West. Timothy Leary was urging 30,000 at the Human Be-In to “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Bus tours of the Haight brought hundreds of out-of-towners to gawk at the long-haired freaks.
It was the Summer of Love.
On the political side, thousands were marching with the Mobilization. Black Panther Bobby Seale was recruiting at San Francisco State.
