Turn on, tune in, drop out for NBC Radio's Talknet nighttime programming block of call-in advice shows. Another variation, "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out", was the title of a 1993 single by the band 'Freak Power'—the name itself being a reference to the hippie culture. Turn on, tune in, drop out "Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967 Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". It was also the title of his
Star Turn on 45 (Pints) Edwards, who had previously appeared in the London performance of "Hair", had a brief career as a solo singer in the late sixties and early seventies, and then moved into song writing and production, and was a co-writer of "Right Back Where We Started From", a UK No. 8 hit, and US No. 2, for Maxine Nightingale. Edwards' experiences of performing at affiliated working men's clubs in North East England, early in his career, was part of the inspiration for Star Turn. Cummings is played by Colin Horton Jennings, who had sung and performed with the groups The Greatest Show