LaFlamme, David

Linda LaFlamme Dies at 85; Her ‘White Bird’ Reflected a Hippie Fantasy

With her husband, David LaFlamme, she founded the rock band It’s a Beautiful Day and wrote a soaring paean to a generation’s dreams of escape.

By Alex Williams

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David LaFlamme, Whose ‘White Bird’ Captured a 1960s Dream, Dies at 82

As a founder of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, he was at the center, if not in the forefront, of the Haight-Ashbury acid-rock explosion.

By Alex Williams