It took a long time for sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar to master the intricate 2,000-year-old
raga art form of India.
It took a long time for San Francisco to develop from a bustling frontier town - "an
American dream; includes Indians too" * - to the place the hippies call home.
It took a long time for popular music to grow into the present mind-expanding, driving,
psychedelic sound.
And it took a long time for artists such as Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles and Bobbie
Gentry to develop the exceptional styles that swung them into the spotlight.


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