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In '60s San Francisco, Love Was the Song

Fresh Air | By Ed Ward
Published January 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM EST

Rock historian Ed Ward remembers the sound of San Francisco in the '60s, from the early days of countercultural upheaval through the Summer of Love in 1967. It's all lavishly documented in Love is the Song We Sing, a new four-disc set from Rhino Records.

Copyright 2008 Fresh Air
Ed Ward
Ed Ward is the rock-and-roll historian on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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