A Zelig, a holy fool, a trickster, a black magician, a sociopath, a charlatan, a genius, a fabulist, a junkie, an alcoholic, a secret agent, a police informer, a disruptor, an often loveable preacher of Love who didn't actually seem to know what it meant?
LSD evangelist Michael Hollingshead might or might not have been all of these, but he was certainly a father.
What is it like to be the child of such a person?
Comedian Vanessa Hollingshead and writer Jeannie Hilton tell the dark and intense story of Vanessa’s tumultuous life with Michael, the working class Englishman who, according to his own claim, 'turned on the world' - or at least, many of those who did - including Timothy Leary and The Beatles - and who, like many who have advocated universal love and cosmic enlightenment, led a tragic and toxic personal life.
It's a wild and crazy trip, at times funny, at times disturbing. Be warned!
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The Sounds of Black Power
The Rise and Fall of the '80s Free Festival
Child of the Commune
Liberation Part 2: Glad to be Gay
Liberation Part 1: Coming out in the Counterculture
The Beat Goes On: The Sounds of Allen Ginsberg
London's Lost Street of Song
Countercultural Libido: A History of 'Perversion'
The Incredible String Band Part 2: Inside Looking Out
The Incredible String Band - Part 1: Outside Looking In
In the ’60s: The Birth of the British Underground
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 3: The Dreaming
Remembering the Crazy Diamond
How To Expand Your Consciousness Part 2: Tripping
Songs of War and Peace - with Boris Grebenshikov
Riding The Oblivion Express - with Brian Auger
The Soho Bibles: The Secret Porn of Post-War London
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 1: Philosophy
The Music of the Cults
Rock, Radicals and Racism
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