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Album Review of: ‘PAT FULGONI BLUES EXPERIENCE’ by PAT FULGONU BLUES EXPERIENCE (Chocolate Fireguard CFA CD009) Facebook @patfulgonibluesexperience. The Blues walks a long unforgiving road. Sometimes it hops the freight-train, at other times in pays its dues working the chain-gang.

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Dec 6, 2017 · In 1966 Barry Miles and John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins decided to start a newspaper. They called it International Times and launched it in April. It was the first British underground newspaper, and began a news media revolution.This catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, displays the covers of every British underground paper that launched in the 1960s: International Times, Oz, Friends/Frendz ...

Sep 14, 2024 · One Response to AU FOND. Powerful memories of the early 1970’s in this poem. Thanks. Comment by Angie Birtill on 19 September, 2024 at 9:30 am

One Response to How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the Straight Press [I recall at the time] Paul McCartney had an idea of an Apple Magazine Cassette of new poetry and musics monthly. This didn’t quite come to fruition – though I was in the first (and only) issue of The London/Apple Magazine containing a flexi-disc of Allen Ginsberg reading and ...

Iraq’s failing state is symbolized not caused by the struggle to form a government among its sectarian political players. Twelve months on from the last parliamentary elections, amid periodic violent clashes and angry protests in Baghdad and the south, a new Iraqi prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani, has been appointed.

Bird Guano’s SAUSAGE LIFE The column which thinks that once fame has eluded you, notoriety is your only man. CHAPTER ONE Bellicose thunder rumbled, forked lightning crackled and fizzed; the firmament was visibly upset – downright distressed, if you want the truth.

Mar 12, 2022 · We fled underground in the fiery red-faced dawn With the eyes of Armageddon shedding all our ties Who will forgive or forget; this is where freedom dies

The cliché that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t there couldn’t be more wrong in the case of Barry. He was at the centre of the decade’s counter-culture, naming the likes of Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger among his friends, organising huge events such as the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall and the 14 Hour …