by Barry Miles
Siesta in Xbalba, Near Icy Cape, Alaska, self-published, 1956
Howl and Other Poems, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1956
Kaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1961
Empty Mirror, New York, Totem Press, 1961
Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1963
The Change, London, Writers’ Forum, 1963
Wichita Vortex Sutra, London, Peace News, 1966
Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution, Detroit, Artists’ Workshop Press, 1966
T.V. Baby Poems, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1967
Scrap Leaves, New York, Poets’ Press, 1968
Airplane Dreams, Toronto, Anansi, 1968
Wales: A Visitation, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1968
Ankor Wat, London, Fulcrum Press, 1968
Planet News, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1968
Song and Sunflower Sutra, Milano, Fernanda Pivano, 1969
Michael McClure
Passage, Big Sur, CA, Jonathan Williams, 1956
Peyote Poem, San Francisco, Wallace Berman, 1958 (broadside included in Semina 3)
For Artaud, New York, Totem Press, 1959
Hymns to St Geryon and Other Poems, San Francisco, Auerhahn Press, 1959
We’re in the Middle of a Deep Cloud, San Francisco, Wallace Berman, 1959 (broadside included in Semina 4)
OH CHRIST GOD LOVE CRY OF LOVE STIFFLED FURRED, San Francisco, Auerhahn Press, 1959 (broadside included in The Auerhahn Press)
FUCK DEATH, San Francisco, privately published, 1959 (folded card)
! THE FEAST !, San Francisco, The Batman Gallery, 1960 (mimeographed sheets)
WE ARE IMPERVIOUS AS THE SKIN OF OUR DREAMS, Los Angeles, Wallace Berman, 1960 (broadside included in Semina 5)
The New Book / A Book of Torture, New York, Grove Press, 1961
Pillow, New York, New York Poets Theatre, 1961 (photocopied sheets)
Spontaneous Hymn to Kundalini, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1961 (broadside)
Dark Brown, San Francisco, Auerhahn Press, 1961
Meat Science Essays, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1963; City Lights, expanded edition 1966
GRAHHR GROOOOOOOOOOOOO NYARR GARHOOOOOOOSH ROSE, San Francisco, privately published, 1963 (broadside, containing only one line)
Love Lion Lioness, San Francisco, privately published, 1964 (poster)
DOUBLE MURDER! VAHROOOOOOOR!, Los Angeles, Wallace Berman, 1964 (broadside included in Semina 9)
Poetry Is a Muscular Principle, Los Angeles, privately published, 1964 (broadside)
BLUE-BLACK WINGED SPACE RAINBOW, San Francisco, privately published, 1964 (broadside, containing only one line)
Two For Bruce Conner, San Francisco, Oyez, 1964 (broadside)
13 Mad Sonnets, Milano, East 128, 1964
Ghost Tantras, San Francisco, privately published, 1964
Dream Table, San Francisco, Dave Haselwood, 1965 (set of thirty cards)
The Beard, San Francisco, privately published, 1965
Poisoned Wheat, San Francisco, privately published, 1965; Coyote 1966
Unto Caesar, San Francisco, Dave Haselwood, 1965
[Mandalas] with Bruce Conner, San Francisco, Dave Haselwood, 1966 (title is a mandala)
LOBE KEY STILLED LIONMAN LACED WINGED APRIL RAPHAEL DANCE WIRY, with Bruce Conner, San Francisco, Dave Haselwood, 1966 (an envelope containing twenty-six cards)
Love Lion Book, San Francisco, Four Seasons Foundation, 1966
The Beard, San Francisco, Coyote, 1967; Grove Press, 1967 WAR IS DECOR IN MY CAVERN CAVE, San Francisco, Communication Company, 1967 (broadside)
The Blossom, or Billy the Kid, Milwaukee, Great Lakes Books, 1967
Freewheelin’ Frank, Secretary of the Angels, by Frank Reynolds, as Told to Michael McClure, New York, Grove Press, 1967
#189, Oakland, Egg Press, 1967 (broadside)
*HAIL THEE WHO PLAY, Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968
Little Odes: Jan–March 1961, New York, Poets’ Press, 1968
The Sermons of Jean Harlow and the Curses of Billy the Kid, San Francisco, Four Seasons Foundation with Dave Haselwood Books, 1968
MUSCLED APPLE SWIFT, Los Angeles, Love Press, 1968
GRAHHR APRIL GRHARRR APRIL, Buffalo, NY, Gallery Upstairs Press, 1968 (poster)
Childhood Memories Are Like the Smallness, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1968 (broadside)
Charles Olson Call Me Ishmael, New York, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947; Grove, 1958
To Corrado Cagli, New York, Knoedler Gallery, 1947 (poetry)
Y and X, Washington, DC, Black Sun Press, 1948 (poems by Charles Olson, drawings by Carrado Cagli)
Letter for Melville, Melville Society, Williams College, 1951 (poetry)
This, Black Mountain College, NC, 1952 (poem, design by Nicola Cernovich)
The Maximus Poems 1–10, Stuttgart, Jargon Society, 1953
The Maximus Poems 11–22, Stuttgart, Jargon Society, 1956
In Cold Hell, In Thicket, Dorchester, MA, 1953; Four Seasons Foundation, 1967
The Mayan Letters (ed. Robert Creeley), Majorca, Divers Press, 1953
Anecdotes of the Late War, Highlands, NC, Jargon Society, 1955
O’Ryan 2.4.6.8.10., Berkeley, CA, White Rabbit Press, 1958
Projective Verse, Totem Press, 1959 (essay)
The Maximus Poems, New York, Jargon/Corinth, 1960
The Distances, New York, Grove, 1961
Maximus, from Dogtown – 1. With a foreword by Michael McClure, San Francisco, Auerhahn Society, 1961
A Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn, Bolinas, CA, Four Seasons Foundation, 1964
Human Universe and Other Essays (ed. Donald Allen) San Francisco, CA, Auerhahn Society, 1965
Proprioception, San Francisco, Four Seasons Foundation, 1965
Stocking Cap, Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1966; Four Seasons Foundation, trade edition, 1966 (story)
Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley, San Francisco, Coyote, 1966
West, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1966
Selected Writings (ed. Robert Creeley), New York, New Directions, 1967
The Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1968
Pleistocene Man: Letters from Charles Olson to John Clarke during October 1965, Buffalo, Institute for Further Studies, 1968
‘“Volume 0” of a Curriculum for the Study of the Soul’, Letters for Origin, 1950–1956, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1969
Ken Weaver (Fugs albums)
The Village Fugs, Folkways Records, Broadside BR-304, 1965 (later issued as The Fugs First Album, ESP-Disk, ESP-1018, 1966)
The Fugs, ESP-Disk, ESP-1028, 1966
The Virgin Fugs, ESP-Disk, ESP-1038, 1967
Tenderness Junction, Reprise, RS-6280, 1968
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest, Reprise, RS-6305, 1968
The Belle of Avenue A, Reprise, RS-6359, 1969
Notes
PREQUEL
1 Geoffrey and Brenda Giuliano, The Lost Beatles Interviews, London, Virgin, 1995, p. 224.
2 Jann Wenner (ed.), Lennon Remembers, San Francisco, Straight Arrow, p. 29.
CHAPTER 1
1 Paul McCartney, recorded conversation with the author, 4 November 1993.
2 Paul McCartney, recorded conversation with the author, 4 November 1993.
3 Paul McCartney, recorded conversation with the author, early December 1966.
CHAPTER 2
1 Paul McCartney interviewed by David Pearson: The Sixties, RSO / Channel 4, 1982; television documentary series.
CHAPTER 3
1 Survey of London, Volume XXXII: The Parish of St James Westminster, Part Two, North of Piccadilly, London, Athlone Press, University of London, 1963.
2 Paul McCartney in conversation with the author, 1991 (tape 19 for Many Years from Now).
CHAPTER 4
1 Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours, London, Robson, 2005, p. 295.
2 John Lennon interviewed by Jann Wenner, R
olling Stone, Nos 74 and 75, 21 January and 4 February 1971.
3 William S. Burroughs in conversation with the author, June 1972.
4 Peter Brown, The Love You Make, London, Macmillan, 1986, p. 216.
5 Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours, p. 264.
6 Derek Taylor, As Time Goes By, San Francisco, Straight Arrow, 1973, p. 347.
7 Derek Taylor, As Time Goes By, p. 347. 8 Peter Asher interviewed in Rolling Stone, No. 255, 29 December 1977.
CHAPTER 5
1 David Dalton, ‘The Day the Angels Spent Christmas with the Beatles’ in Gadfly Online, www.gadflyonline.com, accessed September 2014.
2 Ken Kesey, Demon Box, New York, Viking, pp. 284–9.
3 Ken Kesey, Demon Box, pp. 284–9.
4 Peter Brown, The Love You Make, p. 286.
5 Richard DiLello, The Longest Cocktail Party, London, Charisma, 1973, p. 89.
6 Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours, p. 300.
7 Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours, p. 299.
CHAPTER 7
1 Charles Olson, Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, London, Cape Goliard Press, 1968.
2 Charles Olson, The Mayan Letters, London, Cape Editions, 1968.
3 Charles Olson, Charles Olson Reads From Maximus IV, V, VI, Folkways Records album FL-9738, 1975 (produced by Barry Miles).
CHAPTER 10
1 Letter: Richard Brautigan to Barry Miles, 14 October 1968.
2 Letter: Sarah Fenwick to Richard Brautigan, 22 October 1968.
3 The box labels, with my timings handwritten on them, are illustrated on www.brautigan.net/recordings.html and show how much he moved the tracks around before he found a satisfactory order.
4 Letter: Richard Brautigan to Barry Miles, 26 April 1969.
CHAPTER 12
1 Richard DiLello, The Longest Cocktail Party, p. 163.
CHAPTER 13
1 Cited at John Lennon Discography, www.homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob/pob04.html, accessed November 2014.
2 Andy Peebles, The Lennon Tapes: John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Conversation with Andy Peebles, 6 December 1980, London, BBC, 1981, pp. 19–21.
3 Quoted in Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon, One Day at a Time, London, New English Library, 1976, p. 43.
4 Leonard Feather, Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties, New York, Horizon, 1966, p. 271.
5 Conversation between Barry Miles, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 23 and 24 September 1969.
6 Keith Badman, The Beatles Off the Record, London, Omnibus, 2000, p. 447.
7 Andy Peebles, The Lennon Tapes, p. 19.
CHAPTER 14
1 Dhani Harrison, ‘Electronic Sound’, in the booklet accompanying the Electronic Sound CD in George Harrison, The Apple Years 1968–75 box set.
2 Quoted at http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-11367.html, accessed January 2015.
3 Bernie Krause, Into a Wild Sanctuary, Berkeley, CA, 1998, p. 62.
4 Bernie Krause, Into a Wild Sanctuary, p. 63.
CHAPTER 15
1 Paul McCartney to the author, 16 June 1994.
CHAPTER 16
1 ‘Nothing Like You’ on Sorcerer (1967).
2 This must have been the Charles Mingus Quintet: Bill Hardman (trumpet), Jimmy Vass (alto saxophone), Charles McPherson (alto saxophone, flute), Charles Mingus (bass) and Dannie Richmond (drums).
CHAPTER 17
1 Colin Marshall on www.openculture.com, accessed January 2015.
CHAPTER 18
1 Conversation between Barry Miles, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 23 and 24 September 1969.
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Taylor, Derek, It was Twenty Years Ago Today, London, Bantam/Transworld, 1987
Thomson, Graeme, George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door, London, Omnibus, 2013
Picture Credits
With grateful thanks to the following picture contributors for their help, expertise and kind permission to use their images on the following pages:
Barry Miles Collection: this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page.
Getty Images archive (detailed credits for individual images below in brackets): this page (Mike Barnes/Fox Photos/Getty Images), this page (Evening Standard/Getty Images), this page (Evening Standard/Getty Images), this page (Estate of Keith Morris/Redferns), this page (SSPL/Getty Images), this page (Susan Wood/Getty Images), this page (C. Maher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images), this page (Hans J. Hoffmann/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images).
International Times: this page, this page.
Courtesy of Jess Ex: this page.
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins archive (with special thanks to Emily Mahoney and Flip Jelly): this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page.
Mark Naboshek Collection (who kindly allowed us to feature some rare items from his superb collection of Beatles memorabilia): this page, this page, this page.
Michael McInnerney Collection: this page.
OZ: this page.
Sam Cherry Collection (with special thanks to Dani Tull for allowing us to showcase these rare images, the archive can be accessed at www.samcherryphotographer.com): this page, this page.
The Allen Ginsberg Estate (with grateful thanks for sharing their remastered front sleeve with us ahead of the album’s re-release in April 2016): this page.
The British Library/Barry Miles Collect
ion (with particular thanks to Helen Melody, whose patience in rummaging through Barry Miles’s extensive collection unearthed these treasures): this page, this page, this page.
Todd Gunderson (with particular appreciation and thanks for his unbounded enthusiasm for Richard Brautigan and this project): this page (the cover art is copyright of Harvest Records).
Topfoto archive (detailed credits for individual images below in brackets): this page (Jane Bown/Observer/Topfoto), this page (Jak Kilby/ArenaPAL), this page (©2004 Credit: Topfoto/UPP).