“It was right and inevitable that one of Them should have been there in those times”: thus proclaimed Derek Taylor, press officer for the Beatles, in his recollection of George Harrison’s trip to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California during the summer of 1967. It was the Summer of Love, and Haight-Ashbury served as its epicenter as thousands of countercultural youth gathered there, ostensibly to live out a communal fantasy fueled by flower power, free love, hallucinogenic drugs, and rock music, thereby creating an experimental living village of a lifestyle alternative to the established post-war Western culture. These ideas resonated with the members of the Beatles, and Harrison was curious to experience the scene for himself. He flew in a Lear jet to San Francisco and soon found himself walking its streets at the height of the Summer of Love with his wife Pattie Boyd, her sister Jenny Boyd, Derek Taylor, the Beatles’ friend and assistant Neil Aspinall, and Alexis Madras (“Magic Alex”), the electrical engineer with grand schemes for the Beatles that never quite came to fruition.