Celebrates the United States embracing British music, film, fashion and art in the 1960s. This book contains photographs of the many stars that crossed the pond, such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sean Connery and Twiggy.

Presenting the story of the group that gave alternative London its first real soundtrack, this is a diary of Pink Floyd's daily routine, from their roots in Cambridge to cult status in Sixties London. The author knew the band members socially, witnessed the rapid decline of Syd Barrett, and became involved in setting up some of Floyd's major gigs.

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Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and the hookers, and his inspiration a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses, and factories. This biography looks at the exploits of this hard-drinking, wild man of literature.

Presents 250 album covers, which are arranged chronologically, beginning in 1956. This book includes albums from rock, pop, rap, reggae, soul, punk and more.

Illustrates and celebrates the 60s and 70s heyday of alternative magazine publishing in Europe and America, reproducing images from magazines both seminal and obscure whose influence reverberates through culture, politics and society. This work is intended for retro graphics fans and for those interested in '60s counterculture.

A Beatles chronicle that includes sheet music, rare photographs and memorable moments.

The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today. Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , ...

Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately. His biography follows Zappa from his sickly Italian-American childhood in the 1940s - when his father used DDT to clean the kitchen - to his death from cancer in 1993. Zappa's initial desire was to be a classical composer, but he soon realized that this ambition was more likely to lead to starvation than stardom. Instead, he decided to join a band that ...

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generation: Willaim Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century. This title presents his story.

This authorized biography of Paul McCartney is based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews and complete access to McCartney's own archives. It is the story of a man made public property by the age of 21, the trajectory of The Beatles, from beginning to break-up, and of Swinging London.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Barry Miles was at art achool in Cheltenham; at the end he was running the Beatles' Apple label and living in New York's Chelsea Hotel. This is his memoir of what happened in between and also includes portraits of Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Charles Olson.

London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success in this great city. This title explores the counter culture that sprang up in the decades following the Second World War, focusing on the West End and Soho.

Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controversialist and Zappa the family man (despite his love of groupies, he was married for more than 30 years) together for the first time. Barry Miles' biography follows Zappa from his sickly Italian-American

A diary of The Beatles beginning in wartime Liverpool and ending in the dying days of the swinging sixties. It contains a detailed chronology of gigs, venues, quotes and memorable dates. It exposes the stories of the four band members, uncovering the quarrels, sex and the drugs as well as the personal triumphs.

Covering his life from his birth in 1926 to his career as a distinguished poet and professor, this is a biography of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Barry Miles draws on their long friendship and on Ginsberg's own journals and correspondence to give a full account of his life up to his death in 1997.

The Beat Hotel was home to a host of key figures of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s. Barry Miles draws his materials from diaries and interviews, providing an account of a defining time and place for some of the 20th century's most daring and notorious authors.