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I'd about decided to let the death of Scott McKenzie (Wiki) go unnoted - his only widely known release, after all, had seemed ingloriously kitschy from the day I first heard it, and his writing credit on the Beach Boys' odious 'Kokomo,' 21 years later, was hardly a plus - but the Guardian's great Jon Savage convinced me otherwise in his essay below:
Scott McKenzie's San Francisco was a hippy anthem with a life of its own
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
didn't reflect the particular sound of the city itself. Not that
this mattered it was great pop and its idealism lives on
It's worth a read at the link above
Scott McKenzie's San Francisco was a hippy anthem with a life of its own
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
didn't reflect the particular sound of the city itself. Not that
this mattered it was great pop and its idealism lives on
It's worth a read at the link above
