David McGowan

Mondo Bizarro from 1966, Something’s Happening (aka The Hippie Revolt) from 1967, the notorious Mondo Hollywood

Joe Pyne, for those of you too young to remember, is the guy we have to thank for paving the way for the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Don Imus, Morton Downey, Jr., Jerry Springer and Wally George

For the record, Fraternity of Man was a one-hit-wonder band best known for the ever-popular novelty song Don’t Bogart Me

UK’s so-called Profumo Affair

The Gong Show, of course, was the brainchild of Chuck Barris, who famously claimed that during the days when he appeared to be working as a mild-mannered game show producer, he was actually on the payroll of the CIA

Returning to the countercultural films of the 1960s, the most critically acclaimed of the lot, and the one with the deepest roots in Laurel Canyon, was Easy Rider.

Angels from Hell, Hells Angels on Wheels (with Jack Nicholson), and Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger’s occult-tinged homage to gay biker culture

Wohlstetter epitomized what became known as the ‘RAND approach

Paul Young, writing in LA Exposed

Mick Jagger was involved in two occult-drenched, Crowley-influenced film projects, Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising and Donald Cammell’s Performance.