Leslie West, ‘Mississippi Queen’ Rocker, Is Dead at 75
Leslie West was born Leslie Weinstein on Oct. 22, 1945, in New York City to Bill and Rita Weinstein. His ...
Tag: Nineteen Hundred Sixties
Baron Wolman, Whose Photos Helped Start Rolling Stone, Dies at 83
Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone magazine’s first photographer, liked to tell of the time he took a picture of something that ...
What the Tumultuous Year 1968 Can Teach Us About Today
Marshall Frady saw what was coming. It was the spring of 1968, and Frady, a writer for Newsweek, The New ...
Spencer Davis, Whose Band Helped Power the Sound of the ’60s, Dies at 81
Spencer Davis, the leader of a rock group under his name that had some of the most propulsive and enduring ...
The Chicago 7 Trial Onscreen: An Interpretation for Every Era
Abbie Hoffman described the trial of the Chicago 7 as “a great show,” and for the past 50 years, moviemakers ...
Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions
In the mid-1960s, three of Richard Avedon’s closest friends reached Olympian heights in their respective fields: Truman Capote published “In ...
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news recently might conclude that Karl Marx was wrong. History doesn’t repeat ...
52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It.
In the late 1960s, a precocious student named Danny Scher was the elected social commissioner at Palo Alto High School ...
The Bumbling 1960s Data Scientists Who Anticipated Facebook and Google
IF THENHow the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the FutureBy Jill LeporeIn late December 1960, Harper’s Magazine hit the newsstands with a ...
Gary Peacock, Master Jazz Bassist, Is Dead at 85
Gary Peacock, an upright bassist whose fastidious but open-minded style carried him through a diverse career in jazz, culminating in ...
