Contributions to popular culture involving direct reference to the Hare Krishna mantra include the following.
After coming in contact with the Hare Krishnas in 1969, some of the Beatles took an interest in the movement.
[7] Early devotees included John Joseph and Harley Flanagan of the band Cro-Mags, Caine Rose and Jai Nitai Holzman of Fed Up!, Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, and Vic DiCara, former guitarist for Los Angeles band Inside Out, who established quite possibly the most famous of all of the newly dubbed bands, namely 108.
[8][9] This concert in the San Francisco of the hippie era took place at the Avalon Ballroom on January 29, 1967.
American poet Allen Ginsberg and the likes of The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape performed.