The 1960s were a period of radical cultural, social, and political upheaval in the United States and around the globe; yet in just three years, between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice columnist Howard Smith got to the heart of it all in these 61 interviews. Encapsulating the end of an era, Smith sits down for personal and hard-hitting conversations with Mick Jagger, Jerry Garcia, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Carole King, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, Buckminster Fuller, Jim Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Eric Clapton, Allen Ginsberg, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono.