Stories Done: Writing On the 1960s and Its Discontents

Introduction 1 PIONEERS AND A BORDER TOWN 9 Allen Ginsberg: Holy Man (published 1997) 11 Timothy Leary: The Death of the Most Dangerous Man (published 1996) 27 The End of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead (published 1995) 52 Ken Kesey's Great American Trip (published 2001) 73 Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Loss (published 2007) 84 THE BEATLES: PINNACLES AND WAKES 105 The Mystery Inside George Harrison (published 2002) 107 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Within and Without the Beatles (published 2007) 145 The Mystery Inside John Lennon (published 2005) 158 THE DISPLACED 177 Johnny Cash: September When It Comes (published 2004) 179 Bob Marley's Hell on Earth (published 2005) 212 GENIUS, INTOXICATION, DOWNFALLS AND HARD RECLAMATIONS 229 Phil Ochs's Tale of American Ruin (published 1997) 231 Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Outlaw (published 2005) 234 Jim Morrison and the Doors: The Virtues of Waste (published 2001) 250 The Allman Brothers Band: Bonds of Music and Elegy (published 1990) 269 The Long Shadow of Led Zeppelin (published 2006) 294 The Madness and Wonder of Pink Floyd (published 2007) 315 THE LIVING 333 Bob Dylan: Not There, Then There (previously unpublished in this form) 335 Leonard Cohen's Life of Depression (from 2002, previously unpublished in this form) 348 Acknowledgement and Memoriam 371 Index 379