John Sinclair (Leni's partner) was the MC5's manager, revolutionary poet and writer for the underground press of the sixties. A member of the White Panthers, he also organized the infamous John Sinclair Freedom Rally headlined by John Lennon and Yoko Ono where he was arrested and imprisoned for ten years for possessing two joints.
This was an era of counter-culture revolutionary ideology and it crossed over into all forms of the arts, from rock to jazz, authors to poets. It grew as a response to the political issues of the time, mainly the Vietnam war and race riots in 1960's America. Creative and individual freedom, anti-racism, anti-war and anti-establishment politics went face to face with government and the effects spread to many other countries.
Sinclair's radical actions eventually became too much even for the MC5 and they parted company in the early 70's.
This rare footage of Sinclair and Loren's captures a personal and insider view of the band, the issues and the audiences at the end of the 60's.
