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This article refers to the summer of 1967. For the film of a similar name, please go to My Summer Of Love . For the Beach Boys song, see Summer Of Love (song) . The Summer of Love was the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco , where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience. As a result, the Hippie Counterculture movement came into public awareness. BACKGROUND The beginning of the ''Summer of Love'' has popularly been attributed to the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14 , 1967 . The size of that event awakened mass media to the hippie counterculture that was blossoming in the Haight-Ashbury. The movement was fed by the counterculture's own media, particularly ''The San Francisco Oracle'' , whose pass-around readership topped a half-million at its peak that year.1 The grassroots street theater/activism of The Diggers also garnered media attention. College and high school students began streaming into the Haight during their Spring, 1967 break. City government leaders, determined to stop the influx of young people once schools let out for summer, unwittingly brought additional attention to the scene. An ongoing series of articles in local papers alerted national media to the hippies' growing momentum. That spring, Haight community leaders responded by forming the Council of the Summer of Love, giving the word-of-mouth event an official-sounding name. THE MUSIC John Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas took 20 minutes to write the following Lyrics for the song " San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) ":
Scott McKenzie 's recording of the song was released in May 1967. The song was designed originally to promote the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival , the world's first major rock festival, which was attended by over 200,000 people. "San Francisco" became an instant hit (#4 in the U. S., #1 in the U.K.) and quickly transcended its original purpose. The evolution of , 1967 , their song " All You Need Is Love " was heard around the world as part of the "Our World" radio broadcast, further emphasizing the countercultural ideals of love, freedom, and unity. THE SUMMER During the ''Summer of Love'', as many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, were available in Golden Gate Park , a Free Clinic (whose work continues today) was established for medical treatment, and a Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them. But when the newly recruited to most major cities in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. On October 7 , 1967 , those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony, to signal the end of the played-out scene.3 The phrase "Summer of Love" (or, more accurately, the " Second Summer Of Love ") is sometimes used (particularly in the UK) to refer to the summers of 1988 and 1989 and the rise of Acid House music and Rave Culture . REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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