Certainly, the chequered story of The Mamas And The Papas, who were once lauded as 'The American Beatles' and sold 40 million records in a little over two years in the middle of that decade, can be seen as parable of the age.
Their love affair progressed to a marriage proposal and engagement along with rumors of beatings and claims by Forquet that Sharon cut him in the chest with a broken wine bottle.
But the big event of the summer of 1967 — in which John Phillips in particular, would play a major role — was about to unfold in Monterey, California.