In the Sixties - Couverture rigide

Miles, Barry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224062409 ISBN 13 : 9780224062404

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2002

Synopsis

At the beginning of the sixties Barry Miles was at art school in Cheltenham; at the end he was running the Beatles' Zapple label and living in New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel. This is the story of what happened in between. In the Sixties is a memoir by one of the key figures of the British counterculture. A friend of Ginsberg and Corso, Miles helped to organise the 1965 Albert Hall poetry reading. He co-founded and ran the Indica Bookshop, the command centre for the London underground scene, and he published Europe's first underground newspaper, International Times (IT), from Indica's basement. Miles' partners in Indica were John Dunbar, then married to Marianne Faithfull, and Peter Asher. Through Asher, Miles became closely involved with the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, and In the Sixties is full of intimate glimpses of the Beatles at work and play. Other musicians who appear in its pages include the Rolling Stones, the Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen and Frank Zappa. But Miles' greatest love is for the written word and his book includes memorable portraits of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Charles Olson, Richard Brautigan and Charles Bukowski. This is the book that everyone interested in the sixties counterculture has been waiting for. The real story, from the inside.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barry Miles is the author of Allen Ginsberg: A Biography, William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible; Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now and The Beat Hotel. He lives in France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224062409
• ISBN 13: 9780224062404
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible