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  Article Contributed by SRO | Published on Thursday, April 29, 2021 Mercy Fontenot was a zelig who grew up in the San Francisco Haight Ashbury scene, where she crossed paths with Charles Manson, went to the first Acid Test, was friends with Jimi Hendrix (she was later in his movie Rainbow Bridge) and married Shuggie Otis with whom she had a son, Lucky. Permanent Damage: Memoirs of An Outrageous Girl, written just prior to her death in 2020 with veteran music journalist Lyndsey Parker, fearlessly shows us the anything-goes world of the 1960s and 1970s music scene through Miss Mercy's eye...

The most famous (and infamous) houses of Haight-Ashbury FacebookTwitterEmail Catherine Madden / @catmule Haight-Ashbury in the late '60s wasn't all love, flowers and tambourines. Almost as soon as the fabled Summer of Love began in 1967, dark forces crept into the bright Victorians and steep side streets around the Haight. While the world was celebrating the counterculture movement in San Francisco, violent crime, sex work, a sexual health epidemic and countless drug deaths riddled the neighborhood.  This tumultuous side of the hippie dream was maybe exemplified best in the violence of the H...

15 January 2021 The latest episode of Secrets of Cinema sees Mark Kermode exploring a genre that combines his twin passions of music and movies. Read on to discover how the greatest concert films, biopics and documentaries have produced some of the most emotive moments in popular culture. Actors as performers A scene from Sid and Nancy featuring Courtney Love as Gretchen, Gary Oldman as Sid and Chloe Webb as Nancy | Image: Initial Pictures / Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Actors relish the chance to portray musical icons. As well as the dramatic cha...