Profile of Ed Sanders, US counterculture figure, ahead of a documentary on his band the Fugs

A Guardian feature profiles Ed Sanders, the 87-year-old counterculture figure, as a documentary about his band the Fugs comes out. The piece says he gave Jimi Hendrix his gear and tried to 'levitate the Pentagon'.

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1. 19 Oct, 12:00 UTCFirst appeared on The Guardian

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• ‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US countercultureThe Guardian