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7
John Gordon,
Sunday Express
, 2 July 1967.

8
Richard Hamilton,
Collected Words
, p.
104
.

9
Horace Judson, ‘The Right London Number for Youngsters in Trouble’.

10
ibid.

11
IT
27, 8 March 1968.

12
Alan Travis, ‘It’s porn if the ink comes off on your hands’, in the
Guardian
, 14 September 2002. For greater detail on Jenkins, Goodman, Driberg and the raids see Alan Travis,
Bound and Gagged
, Profile, London, 2000.

13
ibid.

14
ibid.

15
ibid.

16
Martin Short, ‘A Firm in a Firm’.

17
Peter Stansill, ‘The Life and Times of
IT
’. There is a large literature dealing with police corruption in London. A very good introduction can be found in Barry Cox,
John Shirley and Martin Short,
The Fall of Scotland Yard
, and James Morton,
Bent Coppers
.

18
ibid.

19
ibid.

20
ibid.

Chapter 19. The Arts Lab

1
Francis Wheen,
The Sixties
, 1982.

2
Jeff Nuttall,
Performance Art. Volume
1, pp.
22

3
.

3
ibid., p.
31
.

4
ibid., p.
33
.

5
Peter Fryer, ‘Inside the Underground’.

6
Jeff Nuttall,
Performance Art. Volume
1, p.
71
.

7
ibid, p.
72

8
Jonathan Green,
Days in the Life. Voices from the English Underground
1961–1971, p.
159

9
Mick Farren,
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
, p.
60

10
Unidentified press interview.

11
Anon., ‘What’s All This Damn “Arts Lab” Nonsense?’.

12
ibid.

13
ibid.

14
Alan Rickman, ‘A Fortress and a Haven for Adult Games’, in
Arc
45, winter 1969.

15
Derek Taylor,
It was Twenty Years Ago Today
, p.
166
.

16
Alan Rickman, ‘A Fortress and a Haven for Adult Games’.

Chapter 20. The Summer of Love

1
In conversation with the author.

2
Neil Spencer, ‘The Underground Press’.

3
Charles Nicholl, ‘IT, Oz and All the Others’.

4
Michael Thomas, ‘Lord Buckley is Dead’, in
Penthouse
, vol. 2, no. 11, October 1967.

5
Maureen Green, ‘Who’s Who in the Underground’.

6
‘Where Did Patti Get That Gear?’ in the
Daily Mirror
, quoted in Derek Taylor,
It was Twenty Years Ago Today
, p.
157
.

7
Maureen Green, ‘The Fool’s Paradise’.

8
ibid.

9
ibid.

10
In conversation with the author for Barry Miles,
Many Years From Now
.

11
ibid.

12
ibid.

13
ibid.

14
Geraldine Bedell, ‘Turned In’, Turned Out, Still Fort Out’, in the
Observer
, 3 December 1967.

15
Chris Stephens, ‘Still Swinging After All These Years?’, in
Tate Etc
1, summer 2004.

16
Derek Taylor,
It was Twenty Years Ago Today
, p.
24
.

17
David Widgery, ‘Against Grown Up Power’, in
Preserving Disorder
, p.
6
.

18
ibid., p.
194
.

19
Quoted in
Time Out
947, 12–19 October 1988.

20
Hermine Demoriane, ‘From Kathakali to Biokinetic Theatre, interview with David Medalla’, in
I T
42, 13 December 1968.

21
Paul Keeler,
Planted
, unpaginated.

22
ibid.

23
ibid.

24
ibid.

25
Robert Harris, ‘Exploding Galaxy’.

26
Jack Henry Moore,
IT
17, 28 July 1967.

27
Unidentified news clipping.

28
Quoted in ‘Down in the dirt’ by Patrick Wright, in
London: from Punk to Blair.
29 Gavin Jantjes in conversation with David Medalla, London,

29
May 1997, in
A Fruitful Incoherence: Dialogues with Artists on Internationalism
, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, 1998, pp.
94

109
.

30
Unpublished document quoted in Guy Brett,
Exploding Galaxies
.

31
IT
25, 2 February 1968.

32
The Islomaniac, entry for 13 February 2007.
www.the-islomaniac.com/2007/02/
oilean-john-lennon, accessed January 2008.

33
Jonathon Green,
Days in the Life,
p.
425
.

34
Time Out
947, 12–19 October 1988.

35
Sara Maitland, Introduction to
Very Heaven
. p.
13
.

Chapter 21. Dialectics

1
Elizabeth Young, ‘The Best Bookshop in Britain’, in Render (ed.),
The First
25
Years of Compendium Bookshop.
This is the best source of information on the history of the shop.

2
David Widgery,
Preserving Discontent
, p.
111
.

3
Joan Bakewell,
The Centre of the Bed
, p.
160
.

4
Mick Farren,
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
, p.
103
.

5
Emmett Grogan,
Ringolevio
, pp.
433
–4.

6
ibid.

7
ibid., pp. 434.

8
Cornelius Cardew in the Anti-University brochure.

9
Alexander Trocchi in the Anti-University brochure.

10
Cogito
44–45 (2006), accessed on the net, July 2008.

11
‘Granny Takes a Trip’, at
www.vintagefashionguild.org
/content/view/237/121/, accessed July 2008.

12
ibid.

13
www.vintagefashionguild.org
, accessed 2006.

14
IT
35 12 July 1968.

15
IT
47.

16
IT
17, 28 July 1967 – reprint edition with new front page.

17
John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft,
Margrave of the Marshes
, p.
274
.

18
ibid., p.
192
.

19
IT
44, 15 November 1968.

Chapter 22. Performance

1
Marianne Faithfull,
Faithfull
. p.
164
.

2
Carey Schofield,
Jagger
, pp.
153

4
.

3
Stanley Booth,
Keith. Standing in the Shadows
, p.
94

4
Marianne Faithfull,
Faithfull
, p.
159
.

5
Carey Schofield,
Jagger
, p.
157
.

6
Christopher Andersen,
Jagger Unauthorized
.

7
Tony Sanchez,
Up and Down with the Rolling Stones
, p.
116
.

8
Christopher Andersen,
Jagger Unauthorized
, p.
189
.

9
ibid., p.
190
.

10
Marianne Faithfull,
Faithfull
, p.
160
.

11
Tony Sanchez,
Up and Down with the Rolling Stones
.

12
Anthony Scaduto,
Mick Jagger
, p.
211
.

13
Marianne Faithfull,
Faithfull
, pp.
160

1
.

14
George Melly,
Owning Up
, p.
132
.

15
ibid., p.
178
.

16
ibid., pp.
177

8
.

17
Mim Scala,
Diary of a Teddy Boy
, p.
67
.

18
ibid., pp.
68

9
.

19
Angela Bowie,
Backstage Passes
, p.
196
.

20
Wensley Clarkson,
Bindon
, p.
123
.

21
ibid., p.
123
.

22
ibid., p.
127
.

23
ibid., p.
66
.

24
ibid., p.
64
.

25
Carey Schofield,
Jagger
, p.
155
.

26
Jagger talking to Jonathan Cott and Sue Cox,
Rolling Stone
, 12 October 1968.

27
ibid.

28
Jagger talking to Tony Elliott,
Time Out ‘Performance’ Special
.

29
Victor Bockris,
Keith Richards
, p.
114
.

30
ibid., p.
114
.

31
Christopher Andersen,
Jagger Unauthorized
.

32
Barbara Charone,
Keith Richards
, p.
113
.

33
Christopher Sandford,
Jagger
.

Chapter 23. The Seventies: The Sixties Continued

1
Introduction to J. G. Ballard,
Crash
, French edition, Paris 1974.

2
Colin Greenland,
The Entropy Exhibition
, p.
15
.

3
Doris Lessing,
Walking in the Shade
, p.
31
.

4
Colin Greenland,
The Entropy Exhibition
, p.
140
.

5
NME
, 2 July 1977.

6
IT
58, 13 June 1969.

7
J. G. Ballard to Charles Platt in Charles Platt (ed.),
Dream Makers
, p.
89
.

8
J. G. Ballard interviewed by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, 29 October 1982, in
R E/Search
8–9.

9
Charles Platt (ed.),
Dream Makers
, p.
94
.

10
Quoted in V. Vale and Andrea Juno (eds.),
R E/Search
8–9.

11
ibid.

12
From
Ambit
32, 1967.

13
March 1970. See Alan Burns and Charles Sugnet (eds.),
The Imagination on Trial: British and American Writers Discuss Their Working Methods
, Allison, London, 1981.

14
Texts in
Ambit
50, 1972. Bax interview in
R E/Search
no. 8–9, conducted in San Francisco, winter 1983.

15
J. G. Ballard, interviewed by Graeme Revell.

16
J. G. Ballard, Introduction to
Crash
, French edition, Paris 1974.

17
Simon Ford, ‘A Psychopathic Hymn’.

18
David Curtis interviewed by Michael Mazière for the BFI Study Group.

19
John Hopkins, ‘Arts Lab London 17 March 1970 John Hopkins Reporting’.

20
Simon Ford, ‘A Psychopathic Hymn’.

21
J. G. Ballard, ‘In Conversation with Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Whitford’.

22
Iain Sinclair,
Crash
, p.
98
.

23
Eduardo Paolozzi, J. G. Ballard and Frank Whitford, ‘Speculative Illustrations’, in
Studio International
, vol. 182, 1971, pp.
136

143
.

24
J. G. Ballard, ‘In Conversation with Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Whitford’.

25
Jo Stanley, ‘Ballard Crashes’.

26
Simon Ford, ‘A Psychopathic Hymn’.

27
Iain Sinclair,
Crash
, p.
99
.

28
Hansard, 12 March 1970.

29
David Mairowitz,
Burnt Bridges
, pp.
140

5
.

30
In conversation with the author.

31
David Mairowitz,
Flash Gordon and the Angels
.

32
Barry Miles,
William Burroughs
, p.
181
.

33
‘Nixon to be portrayed on the London Stage’, in Londoner’s Diary,
Evening Standard
, 7 December 1970. ‘Down to Earth’, in
Jewish Chronicle
, 19 February 1971. B. A. Young, ‘Flash Gordon and the Angels’. And conversations with D. Z. Mairowitz by the author.

34
Barry Miles,
William Burroughs
, p.
181
.

35
ibid., p.
181
.

36
William Burroughs,
The Job
, p.
18
.

37
Barry Miles,
William Burroughs
, pp.
156

7

38
William Burroughs to Ted Morgan, tape in University of Arizona at Tempe (unpublished).

39
Dan Farson,
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
, p.
181
.

40
ibid.

41
David Sylvester,
Interviews with Francis Bacon
, p.
90
.

42
Perry Ogden and John Edwards, 7
Reece Mews
, p.
13
.

Chapter 24. The Trial of Oz

1
Much of this information is taken from Tony Palmer,
The Trials of Oz
. See also Jonathon Green,
Days in the Life
.

2
Carol Sarler, ‘A Moral Issue’.

3
IT
95, 31 December 1970. ‘British Cops and Angels Vamp on Underground’, in
Rolling Stone
75, 4 February 1971.

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