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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
In 2014. But in the 60's that song was the beginning of a massive youth counter-culture, one that the WWII generation simply did not understand. There was no questioning (or at least precious little) of authority prior to that. The question here was whether or not music can affect positive real life change, I would argue that TTTAAC did exactly that. Ask Lyndon Johnson.
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Was it actually that culturally influential though? Would the whole counter culture movement have not started because of one song? Seems kind of absurd. Plenty of music can be a soundtrack to an event, but I have a hard time believing that a song is going to be responsible for something like that.