Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Cinema Sounds: Easy Rider Soundtrack

Cinema Sounds: Easy Rider Soundtrack 1969 represented the end of the '60s in more ways than one. While Woodstock has come to symbolize love and peace, the Altamont Free Concert destroyed the hippie movement due to Meredith Hunter's death at the hands of the Hells Angels. The Beatles started the year with their infamous rooftop concert, but by that fall, John Lennon had officially decided to break the group up. While Lennon was writing "Give Peace a Chance", Charles Manson murdered Sharon Tate and other across the Atlantic. In the middle of all this change and chaos, Easy Rider hit theaters. [...]