Why was George Harrison so put off by the San Francisco Hippie culture?

Well, George Harrison narrated what happened when he and his then wife, Patti Boyd, visited the hippie scene in Haight-Asbury in San Francisco on August 7, 1967: "We went to San Francisco in a …

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