Counterculture of the 1960s of Timothy Leary to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", hoped to change society by dropping out of it. Looking back on his own life (as a Harvard professor) prior to 1960, Leary interpreted it to have been that of "an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank martinis ... like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots." As members of the hippie movement grew older and moderated their lives and their views, and especially after US involvement in the Vietnam War ended in the
Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out Singles Chart and was the only hit single for the group, but they still reached the Top 30 one more time in 1998. Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" was the biggest hit single for Norman Cook's acid jazz group, Freak Power, released in October 1993 as a single. The song features a smooth jazz sound and the baritone vocals of lead singer Ashley Slater. The single originally wasn't very well received, at least not commercially, only making number 29 in the United Kingdom. However, two years later, the song was used in the