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| Were the Beatles hippies? | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 20 2009, 02:18 AM (511 Views) | |
| Mr.Mustard | Apr 20 2009, 02:18 AM Post #1 |
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I've never heard about any of the Beatles specifically saying they were. I think the closest the come is in the photo's of the sgt. Pepper launch party and George's visit to Haight-asbury but they don't seem to have esposed hippy philosophy or tried to associate themselves with the hippy movement even when it was at it's height and they were probably the hippy's most revered idols. |
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| FamousGroupie | Apr 20 2009, 03:08 AM Post #2 |
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I'm not sure. I'll have to ask the people over at DUH, Inc. |
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| Mr.Mustard | Apr 20 2009, 04:29 AM Post #3 |
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I suppose it'd help if I had a clearer idea of what a hippy was. I don't think they were. They might have had the peace n love vibe but to be a hippy you have to disavow capitalism and even at the height of the summer of love there wasn't any talk about that on a personal level. |
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| Mr.Mustard | Apr 20 2009, 04:49 AM Post #4 |
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Edited by Mr.Mustard, Apr 20 2009, 04:50 AM.
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| Mark Stephen Baker | Apr 20 2009, 10:58 AM Post #5 |
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To varying extents they were with George being the most hippiesque. |
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| ohnotjimagain | Apr 20 2009, 05:11 PM Post #6 |
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I agree with you Mark, George was the 'hippiest' of them. But when he went to San Francisco to meet the hippies there he was very disapointed. 'Just a load of spotty-faced kids high on drugs' as he said in the Anthology. |
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| Mr.Mustard | Apr 21 2009, 03:32 AM Post #7 |
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I agree. I think the others stayed more earthy |
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| Bill | Apr 21 2009, 05:12 AM Post #8 |
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Don't try and pin your labels on me, you fascist! (you have to read that in a "Neil" kind of voice or else it doesn't work. :giggle: ) Trying to define what makes a hippy is even more pointless than trying to define liberal or conservative. Do you have to smoke pot? What about LSD? Do you have to have long hair? It's just silly. In their own way, the Beatles did disavow capitalism (the way you do, when you can afford to) in setting up Apple more as a cooperative than a business. As with every other economic or political model, it worked perfectly in theory but fell apart when people were added to the mix. |
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| Mark Stephen Baker | Apr 21 2009, 11:02 AM Post #9 |
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Although Ringo did sleep in a tent once. |
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| Cleo | Jun 27 2009, 07:36 PM Post #10 |
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People ask "Was Jesus a hippie" What do you have to do to be considered hippie? I don't know if they were hippies. I don't think they were. |
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