Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye

Before the summer of love, the LSD experience was seen as dark and troubling. Along with the Byrds and the Beatles, the Dovers explored this intense, chaotic new worldIt begins with a rising, eastern-tinged guitar fanfare. A quick tap and a roll on the snare, and the rollercoaster ride begins – with raga 12 strings and rumbling bass hurtling against the drumbeat. A young voice sings in the soon-to-be-standard punk mystical style: "Unlocked by the key/ And now I am free/ Magic curtains of green...

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