Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960sTomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered—as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment? What did young people hear in the music of Dylan, Hendrix, or the Beatles? Bromell's pursuit of these questions radically revises our understanding of rock, psychedelics, and their relation to the politics of the 60s, exploring the period's controversial legacy, and the reasons why being "experienced" has been an essential part of American youth culture to the present day. |
Contents
Living to Music Remembering Rock and Psychedelics in the 60s | 1 |
Something That Never Happened Before The Early Beatles and the Sense of an Ending | 13 |
Heartbreak Hotel At the Crossroads of White Loneliness and the Blues | 37 |
Somethings Happening Here The Fusion of Rock and Psychedelics | 59 |
I Was Alone I Took a Ride Revolver Revolution Technology | 83 |
Never Do See Any Other Way Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band | 103 |
Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards The Radical Self in Highway 61 Revisited and The White Album | 123 |
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