Crowdfunding without the internet – in New York, this was done in 1966 with a record. The proceeds went to the newly founded counterculture magazine The East Village Other. A who’s who of pop culture gathered for the recording on 6 August: The Velvet Underground were there, along with Tuli Kupferberg, Allen Ginsberg, and Andy Warhol, who brought some of his superstars with him. The date not only marked the 21st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It was also the wedding day of the president’s daughter, Luci Baines Johnson. It was broadcast live on all television channels – and fragments of it run through the final mix of the anti-war collage that was later created in the studio.
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