Turn on, tune in, drop out 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 spoken word album recorded in 1966. On this lengthy album one can hear Leary speaking in a monotone, soft-spoken voice on his views about the world and humanity and describing nature, Indian symbols, "the meaning of inner life", the LSD
Apache Drop Out Apache Drop Out "Apache Drop Out" is a song and single written by Jerry Lordan, Don Van Vliet and Herb Bermann, performed by the Edgar Broughton Band and released in 1970. Of the Edgar Broughton Band's two hit singles in the UK this was their second and biggest. It made 33 on the UK Singles Charts in 1970 staying in the charts for 5 weeks. 1970 was the year the Edgar Broughton Band was tipped for success. Bad management of the group prevented this and they had only two hit singles, neither of which broke into the top 30. The