London Calling (76 page)
Authors: Barry Miles
20
Kenneth Allsop,
The Angry Decade
, p.
208
.
Part Two
Chapter 10. The Club Scene
1
Colin MacInnes, ‘Out of the Way’, in
New Society
, 8 November 1962.
2
Sara Maitland, ‘Introduction’, in
Very Heaven
, p.
5
.
3
Andrew Loog Oldham,
Stoned
, p.
78
.
6
Earl Kirmser, ‘Things Happen in Soho’s Folk Club’, in
Rolling Stone
102, 17 February 1972.
7
George Melly,
Revolt into Style
, pp.
97
–
8
.
8
Keith Richards, interviewed by
Playboy
, October 1989.
9
Simon Napier-Bell,
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
, p.
37
.
10
Charles Marowitz,
Burnt Bridges
.
13
Peter Everett,
You’ll Never be
16
Again
, p.
62
.
14
Mike Kemble, ‘Radio Caroline History’, at
www.mikekemble.com
/caroline/caroline4. html, accessed March 2006.
Chapter 11. The Beat Connection
1
Allen Ginsberg in conversation with the author.
2
Quoted in Nicholas Zurbrugg,
Critical Vices
, at
www.scribd.com
/doc/14709295/critical-vices-the-myths-of-postmodern-theory, accessed November 2007.
3
Tony Rayns, ‘An Interview with Anthony Balch’, in
Cinema Rising
1, April 1972.
4
ibid.
5
ibid.
6
ibid.
7
ibid.
8
ibid.
9
ibid.
10
Allan Campbell and Tim Niel,
A Life in Pieces
, p.
139
.
12
Greil Marcus,
Lipstick Traces
, p.
385
. Trocchi interviewed in 1985.
13
Original promotional leaflet advertising Stigma.
14
Allan Campbell and Tim Niel,
A Life in Pieces
, p.
162
.
15
ibid, p.
163
. Burroughs intervewed in September 1995.
16
Interviewed by Leonard Maguire for
Scope
on BBC Radio Scotland. Collected in
A Life in Pieces
, p.
147
.
17
Christopher Logue,
Prince Charming
, p.
291
.
18
Allan Campbell and Tim Niel,
A Life in Pieces
, p.
140
.
19
Jeff Nuttall,
Bomb Culture
, p.
151
.
20
Bryan Forbes interviewed by Dee Shipman and Paul Jacobs. ‘Write Up There with the Best’, website, accessed July 2005.
21
Jeff Nuttall,
Bomb Culture
, p.
237
.
Chapter 12. The Albert Hall Reading
1
James Morrison, ‘The International Poetry Incarnation: The Beat Goes On’, in the
Independent
, 22 September 2005.
2
ibid.
3
Will Hodgkinson, ‘Snap: Allen Ginsberg’, in the
Guardian
, 21 October 2005.
4
From the printed ‘press release’ for the Albert Hall poetry reading.
5
Jeff Nuttall,
Performance Art. Volume
1
: Memoirs
, p.
20
.
6
ibid.
7
Paul A. Green, ‘Young Adam’, at
www.culturecourt.com
/Br.Paul/film/YoungAdam.htm, accessed January 2009.
8
Allen Ginsberg, in the
Times Literary Supplement
, 19 June 1965 (unpublished).
9
Catalogue to the Ideageneration show of John Hopkins’ photographs, 19 June 2009.
10
See Sabine Breitwieser (ed),
Gustav Metzger
, and Gustav Metzger,
Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art
.
11
Kenneth Coutts-Smith,
The Dream of Icarus
, p.
60
. And quoted by Eddie Wolfram in ‘In the Beginning’, in
Art and Artists
, August 1966.
12
Gustav Metzger, in
Art and Artists
, August 1966, ‘Auto-Destructive Art Issue’, p.
22
.
13
Interview with the author, February 1967.
14
‘John Latham in focus 12 September 2005–26 February 2006’, Tate Britain website, accessed April 2008.
15
ibid.
16
Frieze
90, April 2005.
17
‘John Latham, Awkward Artistic Visionary’, obituary in the
Independent
, 5 January 2006.
Chapter 13. Indica Books and Gallery
1
Jan Wenner, ‘Lennon Remembers, John Lennon interviewed by Jan S. Wenner’, in
Rolling Stone
, 7 January and 4 February 1971.
2
Robert Sheppard, ‘Bob Cobbing, concrete poet who inspired and pioneered, across half a century, new ways of hearing and
seeing’, in the
Guardian
, 7 October 2002; and the
Times
obituary, 7 November 2002.
3
Hugo Ball,
Flight Out of Time. A Dada Diary
(1916), University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.
4
‘Lennon Remembers, John Lennon interviewed by Jan S. Wenner’, 7 January and 4 February 1971,
Rolling Stone
website, accessed October 2009.
5
Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, ‘Mark Boyle and Joan Hills’s Magical Projections’, in
Tate Etc
4, summer 2005.
6
Christopher Logue,
Prince Charming
, p.
304
.
7
Gerald Woods, Philip Thompson and John Williams,
Art Without Boundaries
, p.
54
.
8
Alph Moorcroft, ‘Lights’.
9
See
Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Mark Boyle’s Atlas and Manual
.
10
Gerald Woods, Philip Thompson and John Williams,
Art Without Boundaries
, p.
54
.
11
‘Boyle Family: Biographical Information’, at
www.boylefamily.co.uk
/boyle/about/index. html, accessed January 2009.
Chapter 14. Up from Underground
1
Michael Hollingshead,
The Man Who Turned On the World
, p.146.
2
Simon Napier-Bell,
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
, p.
86
.
3
See Eric Burdon’s autobiography,
I Used to be an Animal But I’m All Right Now
, for details of his Bateille-esque interest in eggs.
4
Mark Edmonds, ‘With a Little Help From Their Friend’, in
Sunday Times
magazine, 20 March 2005.
5
Derek Jarman,
At Your Own Risk
, p.
53
.
6
Derek Jarman,
Last of England
, p.
50
.
7
Derek Jarman,
At Your Own Risk
, p.
57
.
8
Jay Landesman,
Jaywalking
, p.
33
(also reported in John Clellon Holmes’s
Displaced Person
).
9
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
23
.
10
Freddie Foreman and Tony Lambrianou,
Getting It Straight
.
11
Tim Leary in conversation with the author, Millbrook, New York, July 1967.
12
Michael Hollingshead,
The Man Who Turned On the World
, p.
160
.
13
Nik Cohn,
Awopbopalloobop Alopbamboom
.
14
Jonathon Green,
Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground
1961–1971, p.
144
.
Chapter 15. Spontaneous Underground
1
In conversation with the author.
2
‘Party Organiser’, in the
Sunday Times
, 30 January 1966.
3
Michael Vestey, ‘Raving London’.
4
Michael Vestey, ‘Raving London’.
5
Edwin Prévost,
No Sound is Innocent
, p.
19
.
8
ibid., p.15.
9
ibid., p.17.
10
ibid.
11
ibid., p.18.
13
John Williams’s biography of Michael X is the best source but see also Derek Humphry and David Tindall,
False Messiah
, and his autobiography,
From Michael de Freitas to Michael X
. I have also drawn upon
The Souvenir Programme for the Official Lynching of Michael Abduk Malik
, Cokaygne Press, London, 1973, and V. S. Naipaul, ‘The Life and Trials of Michael X’.
14
Michael Abdul Malik,
From Michael de Freitas to Michael X
, p.
170
.
15
ibid.
16
Heather Hodson, ‘We Have Lift Off’, in the
Daily Telegraph
, 9 March 2002.
17
Michael Abdul Malik,
From Michael de Freitas to Michael X
, p.
170
.
18
Richard Gilbert, ‘London’s Other Underground’, in
Town
, March 1967.
19
Elizabeth Wilson,
Mirror Writing
, p.
115
.
Chapter 16. International Times
1
International Times
, 16 February 1968.
2
Tom McGrath,
The Riverside Interviews 6: Tom McGrath
, p.
54
.
3
Maureen Green, ‘Who’s Who in the Underground’.
4
Daniel Spicer, ‘Psychedelia: Paying Homage to it’s Origins’, in the
Independent
, 11 October 2006.
5
Daniel Spicer, ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’.
6
Kenneth Rexroth, in the
San Francisco Examiner
, October 1966.
7
Hunter Davies, in the
Sunday Times
, 16 October 1966.
8
IT
2, 31 October 1966.
9
Tom McGrath,
The Riverside Interviews
6
: Tom McGrath
.
10
Richard Gilbert, ‘London’s Other Underground’, in
Town
, March 1967.
11
Derek Taylor,
It was Twenty Years Ago Today
, p.
199
.
13
IT
10, 19 March 1967.
14
Peter Fryer, ‘A Map of the Underground’.
Chapter 17. UFO
1
‘Syd Barrett Interview (1970)’, in
Terrapin
17, 1975.
2
Alph Moorcroft, ‘Lights’, in
Unit
, summer 1967.
3
David Allen,
Gong Dreaming
, p.
48
.
4
John Hopkins, ‘Memoirs of a Ufologist’.
5
From an unidentified press interview in 1967.
6
John Hopkins, ‘Memoirs of a Ufologist’.
7
Mick Farren,
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
, p.
134
.
8
‘Interview with Twink’ (1985), at
www.angelfire.com
/wr/breastmilky/twink/html, accessed November 2008.
9
Barry Miles,
Pink Floyd. A Visual Documentary
, entry for 22 December 1966.
10
ibid.
11
John Hopkins, ‘Memoirs of a Ufologist’.
12
Derek Taylor,
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
, p.
192
.
13
From an unidentified interview in
Q
magazine.
14
King,
Wrong Movements
, entry for 5 May 1967.
15
Nick Mason interviewed in March 1973, possibly for a French Pink Floyd fanzine,
www.pinkfloyd-co.com
/band/interviews, accessed 2007.
16
Rick Wright interviewed by K. Whitlock for
Record Collector
magazine, at
www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews
, accessed 2007.
17
John Peel talking on
Capital Radio Pink Floyd Story
, Capital Radio, London, 17 December 1976.
18
David Tomlin,
Tales from the Embassy. Volume II
, p.
51
.
19
‘Legolas’, ‘The Third Ear Band’.
20
ibid.
21
Mick Farren,
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
, p.
111
22
Unidentified clip, in the
Daily Telegraph
, 1967.
23
George Melly, ‘Poster Power’, in the
Observer
, 3 December 1967.
24
ibid.
Chapter 18. The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
1
Daevid Allen,
Gong Dreaming
, p.
45
.
2
Ivor Trueman, ‘Twink Interview’, in
Opel
11, 5 December 1985.
3
Julian Palacios,
Lost in the Woods
, at
www.furious.com
/perfect/sydbarrett.html, accessed December 2008.
4
Michael King,
Wrong Movements
, entry for 29 April 1967.
5
Pete Jenner and Roger Waters in
Dancing In the Street
, BBC Radio, 1996.
6
Barry Miles,
Pink Floyd. A Visual Documentary
, entry for 29 April 1967.