Melody Pinion, Todd’s mother, described her son as her “hippie boy.” “It was peace, love, serenity and unity for all. That’s ...

Were you a hippie, a punk, a dink or a yuppie? I think I was a dink for a few years in the mid-1980s. I was never comfortable ...

For decades, the Bay Area has been celebrated — and sometimes mocked — as a progressive beacon, a proud throwback to ...

Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most ...

A moment of high passion. My partner – who for the purposes of this article would like to be known as “X” – executes a ...

Space hippies on the Starship Enterprise and the time ‘Neighbours’ plunged us into a dog’s subconscious are just some of the ...

Writer and director Jane Spencer’s new film, South of Hope Street, is available to watch now on Prime Video. Starring the likes of William Baldwin, Michael Madsen, Judd Nelson, and a plethora of new ...

The Joy of Sex’s author, Alex Comfort, was a doctor, aware that post-war sex remained a mystifying subject to many, and ...

OUR stories of young people receiving their Duke of Edinburgh awards reminded one reader of an occasion when comedian Dickie Henderson took ...

Not that our battle is hopeless. But, you know, the thing about a hopeless battle is even if you lose hope, you still fight.

The Pranksters, as Wolfe put it, “were held together by the magical cement of Kesey’s charisma”. So to last Friday night and ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...