Drug culture suffused 1966 popular music and underground cinema.

Evidence

With its chortled clarion cry Everybody must get stoned!, “Rainy Day Women” was a song of its moment and went to #2 on the charts despite various radio bans. … The Gate, a new venue managed by Elsa Tambellini on Second Avenue at East Tenth Street, would open in the fall with a “New Visions Festival,” followed up by a program called “Psychedelia: Tune In,” which, among other things, featured Richard Aldcroft’s kaleidoscopic Infinity Machine projector (previously seen on St. Mark’s Place and the cover of Life’s September 9 LSD issue). — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 913