Prequel to 1969

Prequel to 1969 – The Summer of Love Continued

1969 - The Summer of Love Continued is a Sequel to Bill Kelly’s Waiting on the Angels – The Long Cool Summer of ’65, a light, easy reading, episodic Roman a clef novel that takes place over the course of the summer of 1965 in Ocean City and Somers Point, New Jersey, a seasonal Jersey Shore resort then popular with the college crowd.

Waiting on the Angels – The Long Cool Sumer of ’65 Revisited

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It was also a crossroads departure point for many of the real life characters whose further adventures are chronicled in this follow up, including Conway Twitty, who went from rock & roll to country music, Bob Dylan, who went electric, taking Levon and the Hawks out of Tony Marts with him, Tedo Mambo – the first hippie rock star, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Herman, Linda VanDevanter, Grace Kelly, Ralph “Sonny” Barger, David Brenner, Tom Snyder, Chris Mathews and a host of ordinary people who came together in a small place at the same time and made special things happen, as recounted in this still unfolding story.

They say 1967 was the “Summer of Love” – as conceived, concocted and devised by Madison Avenue Advertising executives as an overall attempt to describe, brand and profit from the huge cultural shift that radically altered society. This multi-dimensional cultural shift suddenly increased the numbers of mobile free spirits who chose to follow a “counter-culture,” - mainly young, care free, long haired, liberal baby boomers who rejected the corporate wall street profit motive and drifted off with flowers in their hair to Monterey and Heights-Asbury on the west coast, and the Village – Greenwich Village in the southside of the city – New York city. They were in search of love and happiness and discovered marijuana, hashish, LSD and other psychedelic spirits that infused a generation.

Those they called “hippies,” who were a distinct minority in 1965, were nearly a clear majority by 1969, and in America mob rules, not necessarily for the better.

Now in retrospect, it’s easy to see how it went from the cool vibes of the Monterey and Atlantic City Pop Fests and the au natural mud orgy called Woodstock to the suddenly catastrophic nightmare at Altamont, killing a dream.

Getting there was another matter.