A Decade full of growth and independence. In an environment where virtually all totemistic beliefs were being brought into question, pop culture flourished like never before. The decade started with the sense that rock and roll had burned itself out, or had been emasculated by the payola scandals, but ended with rock and roll so dominating pop culture that no creditable alternative existed. Music was the primary force that drove fashion, movies, art and television. A Counter-culture took hold and grew exponentially, coalescing in 1967’s ‘Summer of Love” peaking at the three day festival known as Woodstock, and then fracturing soon afterward, in the wake of a murder during a concert at Altamont Speedway. With drugs playing an ever-increasing role in alternative culture and without any charismatic leaders to develop a valid political agenda, the sixties ended with a sense of anarchy, disunity and distrust.