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! "She Don't Care About Time" as the B-side. The song is included on the band's second album, "Turn! Turn! Turn!", which was released on December 6, 1965. The Byrds' single is the most successful recorded version of the song, having reached number one on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 charts and number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. The book of Ecclesiastes was written between the 3rd and 10th centuries BC, thus "Turn! Turn! Turn!" is the number one pop hit with the oldest lyrics. The song had first been arranged by the Byrds' lead guitarist Jim McGuinn in a