I awoke early in the morning and turned on the telly.
The 1979 film, Hair was on and I immediately disliked what I saw.
The character, Claude, was the main player in the film?
What I saw was George, he seemed to be the main player, and I took a dislike to him from the start.
He seemed to me a bully who was manipulating Claude, and because of that Claude was a greatly diminished person.
I could not watch this film to the end as it was cringe.
I am sure I would never have joined the Hippie class if I was around at the time.
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Drugs,sex,music.What’s not to like?
I was only a weekend hippie though,Mon-Fri I had to go to work in a suit. 
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I raced across the city, after the evening shift, for a lady, wouldn’t do it tonight, her loss. 
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I just about remember the hippie era. I was quite little at the time. But everything on telly and in the younger population in the early 70s was kind of hippie. The hair, the fashions, the slogans, the center partings, the beards and kaftans… seems as though most of the same things are fashionable now. What’s with all these bell bottom trousers?!
I’d say I preferred glam rock and all that. David Bowie singing Starman on top of the pops is one of my early (happy) memories
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I was born with in the hippie era. I wore bell bottoms and tie dye t - shirts. I smoked wacky tobacky to get high and listened to rock ‘n roll. I loved the hippie era. It was cool mannn!
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Before them we had Teddy Boys and Beatniks.
The Teds were a bit violent though and the Beatniks were into jazz and serious thinking.
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I had a beard and a kaftan, it was easy, it was lazy. Not to be taken seriously, there were other countercultures around, I liked them all without being a fully paid up member of any.
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yes, and no
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Yes, we can trace “Faffing” back a long way, it is not a new phenomenon !
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Like bell bottoms, nothings new,
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Try this one for size…
Seriously hard work 
Roger Corman’s earlier ventures into the psychedelic were of a more gentle persuasion. Masque of The Red Death springs to mind.
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I was at primary school during the hippie era. I remember wearing platform shoes and long skirts and dresses, short white puffy-sleeved blouses, flared trousers, my hair was extremely long and straight. In fact, when I look at old childhood photos, I really do look like a hippy child! I think the 70s was one of the best decades for fashion.
Yes, a lot of that fashion has come back.
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Yes and I’m still a bit of a tree hugger. I had all the clothes and wore them everyday except for when I was at work, that was a Navy suit and waistcoat along with a white blouse. I was a Personnel Officer and I think my boss would have not known me if he ever saw me outside work…Thank Goodness he didn’t. I still have my long suede fringed waistcoat, one of my fringed bags, and my waist length hair. I’ll always be a Hippy at heart.
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I was too old to be a hippie, married with a child, born in1967 & one on the way in 1970.
Don’t really remember much about it except some of the music around then.
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I was too young to get involved in the hippy era✌️
I do have a thing about this stuff though…
We used to rub it into our leather bike jackets during those punky days. I still sometimes wear it indoors when I’m chilling or add a few drops in water in an oil burner.
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Can’t remember it reaching as far North as a small South Yorkshire pit village.
I liked the music of the time (Flowers in your hair stuff) but Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers, Punk etc wasn’t subscribed to much around here, although there was a little passing interest.
Not much money around either, just enough for some cigs, beer, and fish and chips on the way home if you hadn’t manged to pull a bird…Work took up most of the time.
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Love the hair, my OH still has his quite long but it’s tied back most of the time for working.
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You must have been a brave man to indulge in the lysergic within the confines of one of those photo booths! 
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