The Flower Child Blogs

  • Meet The Beatles!

    Meet The Beatles!

    While Elvis changed the face of rock and roll, The Beatles revolutionized it.

    When The Beatles arrived in America in 1964, they caused a sensation unlike anything seen before in the music industry.
    Their impact was immediate and far reaching, forever changing the landscape of popular music.

    Transformed from suit wearing harmonizers in 1963, to flower power idealists in 1969, they mirrored the era’s early hopes and bitter fade out. Their ambition and desire to evolve ushered in the great rock revolution of the 1960's. 

    The Beatles will forever be remembered as one of the greatest bands of all time.
  • Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

    In 1967 the "summer of love" arrived under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, magic mushrooms, and marijuana.

    The summer of love was the start of the music led flower power philosophy that was spreading around the world. Peace, (free) love and music. Flower children left their parents and their lives back home in search of something better happening somewhere else.

    The focus of the psychedelic movement started in the small San Francisco neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.

  • What do the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols mean?

    What do the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols mean?

    The album "Led Zeppelin 4" is technically untitled.
    There is no catalogue number, no band name, no title, just a mysterious picture on the cover. The only way to know the contents inside was to buy the album. Led Zeppelin 4 was only identified by 4 symbols symbolizing the identity of each band member. 

    With no mention of Zeppelin's name on the album, Jimmy Page insisted that "the music would speak for itself" and the album would be officially titled by the four symbols together.

  • What does Flower Power mean?

    What does Flower Power mean?

    The term flower power in the 1960's was a symbol of beauty and hope in a time of turmoil and unrest due to the Vietnam war.

    It represented the belief that peace and love could triumph over hate and violence.