The Beatles’ later albums reflected changing social trends in the 1960s, and the band members’ appearances shifted as well. While they seemed to fit in with the hippie movement in some ways, Boyd said ...

Music often follows societal trends. In the late ’60s, the hippie movement started to make its way into pop culture and with it came an onslaught of hallucinogenic drugs and expansive mind trips.

While a few of The Beatles’ songs got in trouble for drug and sexual references, the band rarely released any political music. While John Lennon was a public activist for pacifism and human rights, ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — India’s master of the sitar and worldwide cult hero of the hippies said more than a year ago that the hippie movement was dying in America. Now, Ravi Shankar says, it’s dead. "All ...

In the 1960s, young people around the world were getting involved in the counter-culture movement—and adults didn’t quite know what to make of these "hippies." In 1968, conservative commentator ...

The Beatles rose to prominence in tandem with the hippie movement. Their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club featured ...