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 * By the end of the decade psychedelic rock was in retreat:**

LSD had been made illegal in the US and UK from 1966.

An anti-hippie backlash was contributed to by the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by Charles Manson and his "family" of followers, claiming to have been inspired by Beatles' Songs such as Helter Skelter.

At the end of the year at the Altamont Free Concert in California (headlined by The Rolling Stones), became notorious for the fatal stabbing of black teenager Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel security guards.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, were all early "acid casualties" and as a result, helped to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.

Some bands like the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream broke up.

Jimi Hendrix died in London in September 1970, shortly after recording Band of Gypsies (1970)

Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in October 1970

Jim Morrison of the Doors, who died also from a drug overdose in Paris in July 1971.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics "roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-laden heavy rock.

(All information from here ).