Hard-Nosed Soft Rock

David Browne's new Fire and Rain proposes 1970 as the year the counterculture had to learn to do business by Michaelangelo Matos The relationship between the late-60s rock counterculture and Madison Avenue was never entirely a one-sided affair, as easy as it is to imagine packs of predatory suits hungrily circling starry-eyed flower children. The great lie of 60s rock is that it was untainted by commerciality.…

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