Love Beads in Popular Culture
- According to the official history of the original 1962 Pier 1 Imports store in San Mateo, California, "Our first customers were post-World War II baby boomers looking for beanbag chairs, love beads and incense."
- The Lemon Pipers released a song called "Love Beads and Meditation" in 1968.
- Chet Atkins released a single titled "Love Beads" in 1970.
- In a 1983 episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show titled "Beads", Lucy makes love beads for Schroeder.
- In episode "Bendin' in the Wind" of the animated series Futurama, Fry, Leela, Amy and Dr. Zoidberg follow Beck's musical tour in a Volkswagen microbus and soon run out of money during their cross country road trip. After inadvertently discovering Dr. Zoidberg naturally produces multicolored pearls as a byproduct of being ill and coughing, the crew fund the rest of their travels by stringing the pearls together and selling them as love beads to highly demanding music festival goers.
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Famous quotes containing the words love, beads, popular and/or culture:
“Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)