an event originally called “Summer Solstice Party,” but it was later renamed “50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love” two weeks before commencement. The event had fewer than 20,000 attendees from the local Bay Area. In frustration, producer Boots Hughston put the proposal of what was by then to be a 52nd anniversary free concert into the form of an initiative intended for the November 6, 2018, ballot. The issue did not make the ballot; however, a more generic Proposition E provides for directing hotel tax fees to a $32 million budget for "arts and cultural organizations and projects in the city." During the summer of 2017, San Francisco celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love by holding numerous events and art exhibitions. In Liverpool, the city has staged a 50 Summers of Love festival based on the 50th anniversary of the June 1, 1967, release of the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by The Beatles. See also Counterculture of the 1960s 1967 in music Acid rock Allen Ginsberg David Peel Deadhead Central Park be-ins Commune Grateful Dead Hippies Jefferson Airplane John Lennon Neil Young Nick St. Nicholas Psychedelia Psychedelic rock Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love References Notes Further reading External links Summer of Love: 40 years later, from SFGate What Was The Summer Of Love?: A 50th Anniversary Explainer – SFist The Summer of Love Wasn’t All Peace and Hippies – JSTOR The Summer of Love, Performers in Britain and the United States , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the American National Biography John Griffiths. Summer of Love, in Britain Kate Daloz The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love Longreads CIS: 'Summer of Love' Reached Behind Iron Curtain, by Salome Asatiani. RFE/RL, August 30, 2007 (an article about the impact of the Summer of Love event on Soviet youth culture) PBS, The American Experience: Summer of Love , 2007 Peter Berg (bioregionalist) interviewed about the Summer of Love for The American Experience, PBS A Taste of Summer 2007-10-09 BBC Radio 2 1967 in the United States Counterculture of the 1960s Hippie movement Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1960s in San Francisco Sexual revolution 1967 in California 1960s fads and trends 1967 in American music 1967 in San Francisco