Later Developments
The temporarily sour mood at the end of the summer soon improved when the newly-recruited Flower children returned home and brought all the new ideas, values, behaviors, and styles of fashion back with them to many major cities across the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan - where they took root and flourished, changing the majority of the cultures in the world forever - which was the whole point of staging the event in the first place.
The Summer of Love also exerted its far-reaching influence on a number of young musicians who went on to form many successful and infamous bands in the years to come. Several similarities can be found between the music of R.E.M. and that of the Velvet Underground, U2 and The Who, as well as multiple jam bands such as Widespread Panic and the Dave Matthews Band, deriving their influences from The Grateful Dead all of whom have developed a wide and enthusiastic fan base as a result.
On September 2, 2007, San Francisco celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love by holding numerous events around the region, most of which were well-attended not only by the original participants looking for a nostalgia trip, but also by their children and other similarly disenfranchised young people, piquing interest in the original causes for a new generation.
Numerous examples of concepts originally born during the Summer of Love remain today, such as caring for the environment and its species, recycling, clean energy sources, vegetarianism, New Age philosophies, disability, women's and minorities' rights advocacy, and - brought about in no small part by the numerous people who were taken advantage of during the Summer of Love - programs dedicated to the protection of vulnerable populations - incorporating free clinics, free meal services and food distribution programs, free needle-exchange programs brought on by the AIDS epidemic and numerous other philanthropic ventures.
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