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! Turn! Turn! (album) first writing credit on a Byrds' album. However, the band's prolific songwriter Gene Clark still contributed most of the original material. The album also included two Bob Dylan covers: "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and the then unreleased song, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune". "Turn! Turn! Turn!" would be the last Byrds' album to feature the full participation of Gene Clark until the release of the original quintet's 1973 reunion album, "Byrds". In the wake of the international success of their debut album and the hit singles "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "All I Really Want to Do", The Byrds entered