1967 will forever be remembered as a remarkable year that transformed our entire culture. It was the year of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Are You Experienced?" and "Disraeli Gears". It was the year of "Light My Fire", "Somebody to Love", "Whiter Shade of Pale" and "For What It's Worth". It was the year that the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, Moby Grape and Country Joe and the Fish all released their debut albums. It was the year of the Human Be-In and the Monterey Pop Festival. It was the year that free-form FM radio hit the airwaves and the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine hit the newsstands.

No cities reflected these changes more than San Francisco and London. If you were a teenager in 1967, those were the cities that were calling out to you; Scott McKenzie, a Los Angeles folkie, had a Number One hit that year with the song, "San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". London, with the Beatles in the forefront, was having the same impact in Europe.

The events of 1967 did not emerge in a vacuum. The first rumblings of psychedelia were heard as early as 1965, when the Beatles released "Rubber Soul", when Ken Kesey began holding Acid Tests near San Francisco, when a Beat-poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall caused a like-minded group of people to coalesce in London, when a San Francisco group called the Charlatans took over as the house band at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. By 1969, psychedelia had permeated much of our culture, from fashion to art to literature. The crowning event near the end of the era which signified to the whole world that a significant cultural shift had taken place was the