by Simon Warner
Gordon, Kim 166
Gorillaz 248n 83
Go Tell it On the Mountain (James Baldwin) 73
Grateful Dead, The 3, 18, 39, 52, 124, 137, 138, 200, 284, 432
Gravenites, Nick 302
Gray, Wardell 187, 235, 453
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) 92
Greene, Graham 20
Greenwich Village, NYC 47, 55, 100, 111, 160n 10, 176, 201, 213, 333, 346, 370, 404, 410, 414, 443
Greenwich Village 1963 (Sally Banes) 410
Greer, Germaine 149
Grimms (performance group) 247
Gurley, Jim 302
Guthrie, Woody 2, 10, 80, 111, 150, 207, 266, 423, 437
Gysin, Brion 41, 43, 249, 316, 359, 361, 379, 385, 386, 390, 399, 449
Haçienda, The, Manchester (venue) 391
Haden, Charlie 454
Haight-Asbury xvii, 124, 137–8, 143, 147, 238, 274, 278, 280
George Harrison visit 279
Summer of Love 263–4, 267–71
Haley, Bill xviii, 9, 67, 77–8, 223
Hall, Stuart 227
Hamburg 222, 237
Hamilton, Richard 20
Hammond, John 407–8, 420
Hampton, Lionel 186, 453
Hancock, Herbie 161
Hangin’ Around (fanzine) 387
Hard Day’s Night, A (film) 256
‘Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, A’ (Bob Dylan) 10
Harlem, NYC 88
Harlem Renaissance 93
Harrison, George 189, 241, 273, 274 278, 279, 279n 58
Harris, Wynonie 186, 210
Harry, Debbie 166, 346
Hatfield, Juliana 40, 167
Haverty, Joan 154, 331
Harvey, P. J. 167
Hawkins, Coleman 255
Hawkins, Screaming Jay 89
Hawkins, Spike 38, 187, 235, 236, 241, 252, 257, 258
Heart Beat (Carolyn Cassady) 54
‘Heartbeat’ (King Crimson) 54
Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits) 341
Heathen Earth (Throbbing Gristle) 390
heavy metal 41
Hedlund, Garrett 452–3
Hejira (Joni Mitchell) 161
Hell, Richard 56, 357, 370, 386, 405, 411
and the Voidoids 56
Hell’s Angels 52, 121–2, 144, 200
Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (Hunter S. Thompson) 53
Heller, Joseph 331
Henderson, LuAnne 156
Hendrix, Jimi 96, 161, 162, 270, 274, 355, 404, 405
Henri, Adrian 38, 176, 179–80, 183, 188, 236, 247, 258
Hentoff, Natt 7, 118, 130
Her (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 257
Hernton, Calvin C. 186
heroin 44, 48, 241, 368, 369, 372, 414
‘Heroin’ (The Velvet Underground) 49
Heron, Mike 54
Hester, Carolyn 55
‘Hey Jack Kerouac’ (10,000 Maniacs) 167
High Priest (Timothy Leary) 420
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) 119–20
Hinduism 273
hip hop 60, 145, 211, 285, 307 see also rap
hippy (as subculture) 55, 113, 207, 214, 264
British hippy scene 239–40
definition 270
fashion, style 269, 395
Summer of Love 267–71
Hissing of Summer Lawns, The (Joni Mitchell) 160
‘Hits of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)’ (Sonic Youth) 57
‘Hiway Poesy: LA-Albuquerque-Texas- Wichita’ (Ginsberg) 120
Hockney, David 20
Hoffman, Abbie 420
Hoggart, Richard 226, 227n 28, 238, 427
Holiday, Billie 408, 420, 454
Holly, Buddy xviii, 9, 186
Hollywood 5, 216
Holmes, John Clellon 24–5, 87, 152
Holy Soul and Jelly Roll : Poems and Songs 1949–1993 (Ginsberg) 57, 62, 127, 421
‘Home I’ll Never Be’ (Tom Waits) 343
homosexuality, gay rights 156, 165, 399
Hooker, John Lee 186, 224
Hopkin, Mary 245
Horn, The (John Clellon Holmes) 87
Horovitz, Michael 17, 38, 179, 182–83,185–90 (Q&A) 234, 252–3, 255, 257, 417
Horses (Patti Smith album) 162, 346, 354, 357, 359
‘Horses’ (Patti Smith song) 163
Horse’s Neck (Pete Townshend) 248
Hotel Delmonico, NYC 8
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) 69, 78, 221
Houston, Libby 187, 190
‘Howl’/Howl and Other Poems xvii, 15, 26, 32, 38, 48, 49, 54, 56, 65–6, 79, 84, 115, 117, 143, 176, 213, 231, 234, 237, 259, 288, 292, 318–19, 349, 399, 418, 422, 439, 443, 445
homosexuality in 48
obscenity charges 26, 49, 84, 116
Six Gallery reading 65–6, 143, 360, 410see also Six Gallery
‘Howl’ (Patti Smith) 163
Howl for Now (Simon Warner) 288, 292–3, 319–20
‘Howler, The’ (King Crimson) 55
Howlin’ Wolf 186
Howls, Raps and Roars (Various Artists) 64
Hughes, Langston 60, 88, 93, 360
Human Be-In, The 52, 116, 124–5, 262, 268
Human Universe and Other Essays (Charles Olson) 183
Huncke, Herbert 24, 153
‘Hungry Blues’ (The Fugs) 418
‘Hunt, The’ (Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray) 235, 453
Hunter, Robert 40, 426, 427, 432
‘I Am the Walrus’ (The Beatles) 251
‘I Feel Free’ (Cream) 248, 255
‘I Like My Baby’s Pudding’ (Wynonie Harris) 210
Indica Gallery, London 243, 245
In His Own Write (John Lennon) 189, 243
‘In My Life’ (The Beatles) 10, 272
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London 44, 188, 383, 389
International Poetry Incarnation, Albert Hall 17, 182, 185, 190, 241–2, 255, 314
International Times see IT
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) 73, 87
‘Isis’ (Bob Dylan) 132
Isle of Wight Festival 270
IT (newspaper) 16, 17, 246, 251, 315
‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ (Bob Dylan) 117
‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ (The Beatles) 244, 403
Izzy Young’s Folklore Center, NYC 111
’Jack and Neal/California Here I Come’ (Tom Waits) 341, 448
Jack Kerouac Alley/Street, SF 2, 122, 195
Jack Kerouac Collection, The (Kerouac album) 61
Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (Various Artists) 39, 58, 61, 87, 94, 321, 323, 330–4, 426, 436, 455
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets, Boulder 28, 155, 167, 169, 202, 250, 365, 422
‘Jack of Hearts’ (Mike Heron) 54
Jackson, Mahalia 186
Jagger, Mick 55, 249, 261, 377, 395
Jarman, Derek 391
Jaye, Lady see Jackie Breyer
Jay-Z 285
jazz 89, 90, 94, 112, 319, 329, 437, 446
‘Jazz of the Beat Generation’ (Kerouac) 330
jazz poetry 93, 333, 341
Jefferson Airplane 52, 124, 137, 140, 268
Jethro Tull 54
Jim Carroll Band, The 369–70, 372
Joans, Ted 57, 111, 186
John, Elton 11
Johns, Jasper 20, 75
Johnson, Joyce 152–3, 363, 432
Johnson, Linton Kwesi 188
Jones, Brian 249, 355, 364, 378, 379, 390, 397
Jones, Elvin 62
Jones, Hettie 33, 57, 169
Jones, LeRoi see Baraka, Amiri
Jones, Mick 57
Jones, Rickie Lee 164–5
Joplin, Janis 97, 135, 141, 172, 302–3
Journal for the Protection of All Beings, The 298, 302
Joyce, James 215
Joy Division 60
JRNLS80S (Lee Ranaldo) 58
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sp; Jubilee (film) 391
‘Jungle Line, The’ (Joni Mitchell) 161
Junkie (Burroughs) 26, 66, 353n 24, 384
Juris, Vic 338, 342, 456
Just Kids (Patti Smith) 346n 2, 350n 15, 359, 364
‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ (Bob Dylan) 119
‘Kaddish’/Kaddish and Other Poems (Ginsberg) 27, 59, 155, 187
Kammerer, David 24
Kandel, Lenore 154
Kaufman, Bob 57
Kaye, Lenny 40, 58, 59, 62, 349n 9, 352, 370
Keenan, Larry xviii, 2, 143, 191–200 (interview)
Kennedy, Jackie 290
Kennedy, John F. 112–13, 176, 267, 360
Kennedy, Robert F. 126
Kent, Nick 17
Kerouac Commemorative, Lowell 425, 429
Kerouac Films 437
Kerouac, Gabrielle 155
Kerouac, Jack xv, 21, 22, 23, 24, 51–2, 84, 87, 88, 91, 94–6, 100, 103–05, 117, 140, 147, 186, 232, 256, 260–1, 283, 285, 288, 300–1, 316, 318, 326–7, 329–44, 351, 368, 372, 380, 399–400, 403, 420, 425–7, 431–3, 436–8, 445–7
alcoholism 94, 337
apoliticism 143
death of 28, 39
influence on Dylan 107
obituary comments 39
poetry 322–3
rejection of counterculture 28, 39
relationship to women 153
relation to the hippies 18–19
spontaneous prose 315, 324, 331
views in later life 29
Kerouac, Jan 154–5, 331, 331n 8
Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (Various Artists) 39–40, 57, 59, 61, 84, 163, 167, 321–7, 342, 352, 426, 436, 445
Kerouac (Ann Charters) 155, 305
Kesey, Ken 19n, 27, 50–3, 120–1, 204, 207, 316
Kind of Loving, A (Stan Barstow) 228
King, Carole 11
King Crimson 54
King, Martin Luther 6, 32, 71, 112, 360
King’s Road, London 279
Kinks, The 224, 248, 258, 262
Kitt, Eartha 186
Korner, Alexis 186, 223
Klein, Allen 245
Kodak (Patti Smith) 357
Krim, Seymour 88
KRS-One 60
Kupferberg, Tuli 33, 45, 413, 414, 418 obituary 443–4
Kurtz, Dayna 167
Kyger, Joanne 143, 154, 361
L-Shaped Room, The (Lynne Reid Banks) 228
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D. H. Lawrence) 227n 28
‘Lady Godiva’s Operation’ (The Velvet Underground) 49
Lamantia, Philip 26, 66n 3, 92
‘Land’ (Patti Smith) 357
‘Last Gathering of the Beats, The’ 1, 18, 36, 122, 191, 194–8, 296
‘Last Hotel, The’ (Patti Smith) 58, 352
Last Poets, The 60, 95
Last Waltz, The (film) 54, 160, 284, 304
Laurel Canyon 160
Lead Belly 89, 219
‘Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)’ (Sonic Youth) 57
Lear, Edward 20, 243
Leary, Timothy 27, 50, 246, 316, 373, 420
Lennon, Cynthia 189, 242
Lennon, John xv, 3, 14, 17, 18, 56, 80, 126, 182, 208, 224, 237, 242–3, 250–1, 258
art school 14
friendship with Ginsberg 37, 176, 246
Green Card application 37
Lennox, Annie 172
‘Let’s Get Together’ (Dino Valente) 303
‘Letter to John Clellon Holmes’ (Lee Ranaldo) 58
Lewis, Jerry Lee 78, 223
Lewis, Richard 9n 13, 40
Lichtenstein, Roy 20, 75
Life (magazine) 267, 384
Light Programme, The 217
Lion For Real, The (Ginsberg) 62
Listener, The 187
Literary Kicks (website) 283, 370
‘Little Help From My Friends, A’ (The Beatles) 273, 275
Little Richard xviii, 9, 10, 78, 89, 186, 395, 404
Little Walter 77, 88
Live Aid 34
Liverpool 189–90, 223, 236, 247
Liverpool Poets, The 38, 176, 178, 183, 188, 247
Liverpool Scene, The (Edward Lucie-Smith) 176, 183, 236, 247
Living at the Movies (Jim Carroll) 368, 372
Logue, Christopher 187, 190, 231, 241, 246
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 71
Lomax, Alan 221, 342, 342n 39
Lomax, John A. 342, 342n 39
London 241, 265, 270
‘London’s Burning’ (The Clash) 387
London Calling (The Clash) 190
Lonesome Traveller (Kerouac) 30
‘Long Time Gone’ (David Crosby) 12
Look (magazine) 268
Lord Buckley 64, 88
Lords and the New Creatures, The (Jim Morrison) 54
Lost Generation, The 25
‘Loud Prayer’ (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 304
Love Book, The (Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek) 154, 172
Love, Courtney 167
Love Lion (Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek) 54, 64
‘Lovely Rita’ (The Beatles) 276, 277
‘Love Me Do’ (The Beatles) 238
Lowell, Massachusetts 128, 129, 341, 352, 425–30
Lowell, Robert 73, 138
Lowell Sun (newspaper) 426
Lower East Side (New York) 154, 161, 201, 367, 371, 372
LSD 50, 121, 124, 179, 207, 269, 273, 289
Lucie-Smith, Edward 183
‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ (The Beatles) 273, 277
Lulu (Lou Reed/Metallica) 49
Lunch, Lydia 40, 166, 352, 369
McBeth, George 241
McCarthy, Senator Joseph 69, 78, 84, 221, 232, 310, 360
McCartney, Mike 247
McCartney, Paul xv, 1, 3, 10, 17, 18, 56, 62, 187–9, 224, 243–47, 250, 271, 274, 276–77
friendship with Ginsberg 37, 176, 243–4
McClure, Joanna 154
McClure, Michael xv, 1, 17, 18, 26, 52, 53–5, 123, 124, 135–48 (interview), 193, 197–9, 262, 284, 304, 321, 365, 427, 432, 445, 447, 449, 450
MacColl, Ewan 220, 220n 14
‘MacDougal Street Blues’ (Kerouac) 40
Joe Strummer’s interpretation of 57
McGough, Roger 38, 188, 236, 247, 258
McGuinn, Roger 60, 214, 408
Machito 91
MacInnes, Colin 228, 229
McKay, Nellie 172
McLaren, Malcolm 386–7
McLaughlin, John 248, 248n 82, 255
Mademoiselle (magazine) 354
‘Maggie’s Farm’ (Bob Dylan) 10
Magic Trip (film) 51
Magical Mystery Tour (film) 51, 427
Mailer, Norman 31, 45, 72, 104, 150–1, 204, 229, 266, 414, 443
The Making of the English Working Class (E. P. Thompson) 227
Malamud, Bernard 72
Manchester 223
Manchurian Candidate, The (film) 87, 99
Manfred Mann 223
Manic Street Preachers 60
Mansfield, David 62, 408
Many Lives of Dobie Gillis, The (TV show) 209
Manzarek, Ray 54, 135, 199–200, 262, 284, 449
Mapplethorpe, Robert 162, 345, 358, 367, 372
Marcel Duchamp’s Next Work (Genesis P-Orridge) 393
Marcus, Greil 17, 387
Marcuse, Herbert 137
Marquee Club, The, London 188
marijuana 8, 26, 75, 269, 273
Martin, George 263, 272, 275
Masked and Anonymous (film) 99
‘Masters of War’ (Bob Dylan) 10, 261, 303
Material 63
Max’s Kansas City, NYC (venue) 238, 348n 6, 367, 371
‘Maybelline’ (Chuck Berry) 210
Me and My Brother (film) 202
Medeski, John 338, 342, 456
Melly, George 180, 218
Melody Maker (magazine) 16, 280
Meltzer, David 50, 107, 123, 138, 143, 147, 171–2, 196, 296–30
8, 448, 449
list of works 307
Beat Thing review 309–12
Meltzer, Richard 6
Meltzer, Tina 301–5
Melville, Herman 79
Memphis Slim 186
‘Mercedes Benz’ (Janis Joplin) 135, 144, 169, 200
Mercer Arts Center, NYC 367, 371
Merchant, Natalie 167
Mercury Rev 60
Merry Pranksters, The 51, 121
Mersey Beat (magazine) 237
Mersey Poets, The see Liverpool Poets
Mersey Sound, The (Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten) 38, 176, 181, 236, 247
Mesmer, Sharon 169–71, 370, 372
Metallica 49, 450
Metheny, Pat 161
‘Mexican Girl’ (Mike Heron) 54
Mexico City Blues (Kerouac) 27, 84, 129, 187, 329, 417, 425, 445, 447
Mezzrow, Mezz 25n 55
Micheline, Jack 186
Miles, Barry 17, 31, 37, 236, 239–41, 243–5, 297
Milk of Universal Kindness, The (Anne Waldman) 167
Miller, Arthur 71–2, 81, 150, 266
Miller, Glenn 6
Miller, Henry 245
Millet, Kate 149, 151
Millions, The (website) 347
Mind Breaths (Ginsberg) 439
Mingus (Joni Mitchell) 161
Mingus, Charles 75, 87, 98, 161, 256
Minor Characters (Joyce Johnson) 152, 172, 363
Minton’s Playhouse, NYC 6
‘Minutes to Go’ (Brion Gysin) 385
Missing Men (Joyce Johnson) 152
Mitchell, Adrian 17, 187, 188–9, 241
Mitchell, Joni 11, 12, 104, 159–62
modernism 19
Modest Mouse 60
mods, the 224, 225, 229, 239, 314
Mojo (magazine) 423
Molinari, Pete 423–4 (Q&A)
‘Money (That’s What I Want)’ (The Beatles) 224
Monk, Thelonious 6, 75, 112, 147, 186
Monterey Festival 270
‘Moon, The’ (John Cale) 49
Moore, Marianne 73
Moore, Thurston 40, 57, 332, 352
Morley, Paul 389
Morphine 40, 58, 63, 84, 323, 325, 352
Morrison, Jim 11, 14, 18, 53–4, 95, 135, 146, 169, 258, 260, 283, 351–2, 355, 364, 446
UCLA 14
Morrison, Sterling 47, 289
Morrison, Van 11, 54
Mortenson, Viggo 453
Mos Def 60
Motown 224
‘Move It’ (Cliff Richard) 222
Movement, The 225, 225n 27, 239n 37
‘Mrs. Albion You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter’ (Adrian Henri) 180
‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ (Bob Dylan) 10, 117
Mudd Club, The, NYC (venue) 414
Mulligan, Gerry 186
Murakami, Haruki 440
Murray, Charles Shaar 17
Music of Changes (John Cage) 75
Musicians For Safe Energy (MUSE) 34
Musselwhite, Charlie 302
My Friend Judas (Andrew Sinclair) 231
‘My Gang’ (Michael Stipe) 59
‘My Old Man’ (Joni Mitchell) 160