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W e lc o m e to O Z 46, a rich, ju ic y , b u m p er stew , w h ich w o n 't w in frie n d s o r in flu e n c e a n y o n e , but tastes fin g e r lic k in ’ fan tastic. It spans 1930 to, w ell, e te r n ity . . Y o u can sin galon g w ith C o le P o rte r w h ile tru d gin g th ro u gh th e lo n g lin e o f little red b o o k s h o p s w ith J oh n H o y la n d . Y o u can S qu at in it Y o u r s e lf, w ith ou r street ta lk in g guide, an d increase y o u r w o r d p o w e r w ith ou r le x ic o n fo r scream in g queens. W hat else ? T h e re 's th e cu t-ou t sensation to en d th em all (save it an d m ak e a fo r tu n e ), a sad inside a c c o u n t fr o m P R O P , the p riso n ers’ u n ion, a tru e c on fession s p u td o w n o f p rick p igg ery , a p o rtra it o f Paris f o r th ose w h o th in k the C o m m u n e w ill m ake a c o m e b a ck , R ic h a rd N e v ille on his fa v o u r ite subject, h im self, a call fo r an a m n e s ty fo r all d o p e o ffe n d e rs , and a fu ll c o lo u r flash b ack to th e G rea t M o m e n ts o f R o c k . . w h o says that O z has lo s t its stin g9 A n d th e r e ’ s all th e s tu ff w e h a ve n ’t e v en to ld y o u a b ou t.

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Richard Neville, revolutionary bon viveur and gadfly of the Oz editorial collective, pens his annual state of the nation message and wonders, as he drifts in ever-decreasing circles around the backwaters of his mind, w hether we can harness our pres­ ently dissipated energies and rescue ourselves from our self-created cultural and political myths. ‘It seems so shallow to occasionally pick up the gauntlet o f the State with a flourish o f plagiarised slogans or to fight a journalistic revolution upon a barr­ icade o f underground press cards.

AND NOWHERE It was dusk in Miami Beach as the crowd gathered outside the Albion Hotel. The Democratic Convention was over and A J Weberman and the zippie park kids had come with a birthday cake. It was for Jerry Rubin, 36 years old this day, to be presented along with "certificates of retirement from the youth Movement” for himself and other yippie super-entities, Abbie Hoffman, Stew Alpert and Ed San­ ders. The cake was inscribed: "Never trust anyone over 30”, signed, “Jerry Rubin”. The zippies (breakaway yippies), began making speeches through a portable amplifier about how the yippies were ripping off the Movement, had lost touch with the kids in the streets and anyway people who live in Penthouses shouldn’t get stoned. In retaliation, the yippies splashed water from their overlooking bedrooms and sent their most muscular members to confront the park people now jostling outside the lobby. A J Weberman: How come yippies live in luxury hotels with black maids? A Yippie: All hotels in Florida have black maids. What have you done for the anti war movement, Weberman? You’re just a garbage collector. A J Weberman: Typical yippie elitism. What’s wrong with garbage? Voice in Crowd: Yeah.....recycle A J Weberman. During this confrontation, which esca­ lated in anguish and aggression as the afternoon wore on, I found myself stan­ ding on the sidelines clutching a tape recorder, desperately hoping it provided a pretext for a position of neutrality. Friendly with various disputants in this ludicrous sideshow, I was quite unable to offer an impassioned endorsement of either side. Again I was a victim of my own ambivalence. In a ritual act of self-recognition, I ex tended my hand for a portion of the birthday cake. The time had come to eat Jerry Rubin’s words myself.

Ever since, things have gone from middle aged to worse. I remember someone buttonholing me in a Sydney street ten years ago, as early Aussie Ozes launched their libertarian offensives. “ Ybu’11 change when you're middle aged..... everyone does. ” I laughed and replied that such people as Bertrand Russell had not suc­ cumbed to a reversion to conventionality. The rapidly fading pink cheeks o f the Angry Young Men I saw as exceptional, not irrevocable. The turncoat syndrome is to o o ften inter­ preted as “ selling ou t” , whereas its cause is probably more biological than economic. Part o f m y form er neurosis about age and generation gaps must have derived fro m the staggering decreptitude o f local politicians. During the colonial O Z period, it had been estimated that notwithstanding Australia’s image o f a land o f bounding striplings bulldozing their way through virgin forests, the average age o f those at the top in public life was about 107. Because o f the prevailing atmosphere o f militant repression, I have ever since been inclined to draw a causal connection between the state o f not being a teenager anym ore and Stalinism. It was this attitude which prompted me to embrace the 60’s youth culture with such hysterical rapaciousness. Here I am in the next decade, having just com pleted 31 years before the mast and in a raging quandary about the future; drooling over such mawkish cinema epics as Lady Caro­ line Lam b or curled up before a sound system agog over the "B est o f the British Dance Bands”; considering joining the squatters o f Camden Town, while knowing full well I'd be expelled for making love to Begin the Beguine. An d O Z itself o f late I read more out o f duty than pleasure; it no longer seeming symp­ tomatic o f a confident, enquiring conscious­ ness; lazily regurgitating second hand slogans, a harmless peacock posing as a gadfly to the State and still searching fo r the perfect orgasm in the manner o f Winnie the Pooh behind the stairs with a flashlight. Those who think a sex revolution alone can change the face o f man & womankind are benign in intent and irrelevant in effect, left floating around the back streets o f their mind w ith a dildo and a Polaroid, pushing for some unsavoury hairbrained utopia o f copulation on the rush hour tubes. Their world their orgy. "W hen her father's estate was finally wound up and all the debts paid, all that was le ft fo r her was an emerald ring. I ’d been tem pted to sell it every year but the crisis always got averted in time. But this spring I had absolute­ ly no o p tio n ; m y daughter announced that she was pregnant fo r the fou rth tim e.... So the ring had to go at last. " I t was the last relic o f m y fa m ily and wc can trace m y fa m ily back through 11 genera­ tions. I t used to matter, that sort o f thing. But now all that matters is that m y daughter should have an abortion. ” — A Passage to Tunbridge Wells, Sunday Times C olour Supplement. The m ellowing o f m y viewpoints does not coincide with any Great Leap Rightward, except that to regard political enemies as inherently vicious, evil or detestable is in itself obtuse, uncharitable and even psycho­ pathic. I have com e to learn that those who hold opinions opposite to my ow n are not automatically disqualified from suffering deep and genuine concern for the human race. In their ow n way, I suppose, everyone does, with fuckall effect.

Since I arrived in this country, in the wake o f a guilty furore over Cathy Com e Home, the number o f homeless families has doubled. As I write, N ixon is breaking new tonnage records with his Merry Christmas delivery o f bombs to Hanoi. (In September there was estimated to be over one m illion orphans in North Vietnam ). A housewife who for years had been soothing bronchitis with regular cups o f cannabis tea is gaoled fo r nine months, without a murmur from a society already numbed by the bom ­ bardment o f bad news. (Have you noticed the fatigue in the voices o f radio newscasters as they begin their reports: “ Another five deaths today in Northern Ireland.... ” ) It is not that anger and frustration dimini­ shes so much as a slow dim dawning that the world is not explicable as a dramatic tapestry o f good guys and bad guys. Such organisations as the Socialist Labour League and its tom tom, Workers Press, parades forth a cast o f cloak and dagger villains with curly black moustaches, to whom are appended epithets like T ory, Communist, hippie, as though they were all synonyms for Dracula, and in them­ selves a sufficient explanation for com plete social abhorrence. The mindless belligerence o f its tone and sheer deceit o f its im port o ffers an intriguing insight into exactly what society would be like if such people were ever taken seriously. I think o f E M Forster’s observation that if he was ever faced with the choice o f betraying his country or his friend, he w ould undubitably scuttle the former. There are obvious qualifi­ cations, but as a rule o f thumb it seems uncontroversial. What is fascinating about some sec­ tions o f the revolutionary left is the relish with which they dispose o f doctrinal renegades. Longtim e friendships can be crushed with the nod o f a superior, unconsciously nurturing the seeds o f Stalinism. " ...if you have no personal history, no expla­ nations are needed; n obod y is angry or dis­ illusioned with you r acts. A n d above all no one pins you down with their th ou gh ts..." — Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda. A writer especially feels a prisoner o f his past, bound by statements uttered previously, or an image or idea o f oneself channeled back through the media, friends and those who pick fights with you on the tubes. Writing for me is hard labour because o f the battle to express what I really feel and think as opposed to what I ought to feel and think. This struggle, however hypocritical it becomes at times, to be explicit, consistent and truthful, has rendered it impossible for me so far to sign on the dotted line o f any particular brand o f ism. This iso­ lation breeds unhealthy interest in one’s own psyche, things mystical and that whole m edley o f subjectivist escapist claptrap. Many o f the battered survivors o f the fast fading age o f permissiveness seem these days to have retreated into themselves; only to dis­ cover a vacuum. This, as does nature, they abhor, so they set out on all sorts o f highways and byways in search o f a spiritual equivalent to the H oly Grail, which is o ften presumed, understandably, to be in the w in d ow o f the supermarket round the corner. It is the era o f the Big Search — a quest for the eternal high, through meditation, brown rice, alpha readings, guruism primal screaming, Jesus freakery, LSD or the munchy, crunchy granola o f them all. A startling number o f those reared on a Russellian diet o f respect for scrupulous rationality have joined those who realise that a purely materialistic interpretation o f the

10 GO universe is inadequate, tipping the current m ood fro m vague empiricism to rampant subjective exploration. “ Radicalism in America has been transformed fro m som ething that had been fo r tw o centu­ ries, prim arily concerned with external ob jec­ tive entities such as labour and capital, to som ething prim arily concerned with states o f internal, subjective consciousness” R obert Nisbet, Encounter, March 1972. Drugs have been instrumental in this change. White coated drones in University laboratories inject huge quantities o f cannabis and alcohol into mice (w h ile boasting: “ I have never tried pot in my life and don’t intend t o ” ) in the grip o f a delusion that their investigations are relevant. The important question is not whether dope damages the brain, it does, but in what ways does its long term consumption alter on e’s consciousness? H o w can this alter­ ation be interpreted philosophically? (i.e. Is getting high good for m y soul?). Be Here N ow , a current cult best seller which was extracted in December O Z, is the spiritual autobiography o f Baba Ram Dass, form er partner o f Tim oth y Leary under the alias o f Richard Alpert. Once a sour and efficient academic careerist, Ram Dass was knocked o f f the ladder by his contact with drugs. He recalls his times as an acid acolyte, when they all locked themselves in rooms, gobbling up steam-shovels full o f hallu­ cinogens, determined to push through the gravity barrier. There was o n ly one thing he hated about being high — com ing down. Eventually he jets o ff to India, discovers a guru, achieves an eternal on-top-of-it-all and

“Those who think a sex revolution alone can change the face o f man and womankind are benign in intent and irrelevant in effect, left floating around the back streets o f their mind with a dildo and a Polaroid, pushing for some unsavoury hairbrained utopia o f copulation on the rush hour tubes."

returns to give birth to the Lama Foundation in San Cristobel, N e w M exico. This exquisite­ ly built commune nestles in the pine forests o f the Rockies, attracting pilgrims fro m all over the w orld, and radiating an uncanny aura o f tranquility, wisdom and love; elitist though it may be. There are many less ostentatious versions o f the Baba Ram Dass odyssey. That rather boring, and fastidious personification o f fo r­ mal tertiary education, Carlos Castaneda, offers one o f the most im portant chronicles o f non-ordinary reality ever com piled by Western man. Through the use o f mescalin and peyote, as administered by a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Don Juan, he is vouchsaved a glimpse o f what is labelled, in exasperation, " A Separate R ea lity” , a fou rth world, seduc­ tive in its m orality and awesome in its magical potency. One last example: A young, American doctor, A n d rew Weil, has recently published an account o f h ow psychotropic drugtaking interrupted his love affair w ith Western allo­ pathic medicine. It is the gentle dialectic o f a monk, confessing h ow insights gained when being high led to certain productive evolutions in his own character, im proving the state o f his mental health and finally prom pting him to reject altogether the basic philosophical tenets o f Western medicine, in which he was trained w ith such painstaking extravagance at Princeton University. N o w he has set o f f in search o f curative know ledge from the fast disappearing witch-doctors o f the Fourth World. Silly books, fad books, m ore false trails, perhaps, but also some help to those con­ suming various illegal substances over the past 5 years and curious as to just h o w

scrambled are their brain cells. A friend who edits an underground paper has forsw orn all further use o f cannabis. It began to nibble away at his memory, like a fam ily o f termites. “ I began to forget people's names,” he said, “ and one day I couldn’t remember the name o f m y ow n brother.” That’s when he decided to give it up. He had also been concerned by its dem otivational impact. “ Smoking dope weakened m y resolve to do anything at all. Maybe that’s the price fo r entering the magic theatre. Getting stoned certainly makes it m ore difficu lt to remember telephone num­ bers or to jam the day w ith chores. What you lose on the swings, however, you may gain on the outer reaches o f consciousness, and for those not born w ith the gift o f transcending mundane experiences, as are that mixed-blessed breed o f poets, painters and prophets, then drugs have helped thousands o f spiritually paraplegic city slickers com e to terms with that other dimension; the one their parents may have absorbed fro m Blake, Dante or going to church on Sundays ... o f course to the detriment o f immediate political involve­ ment but arguably to the broadening o f their comprehension and toleration o f the universe. "A s m uch as grass has been the In fid el R ob b in g m e o f m y cloak o f honour, well I often wonder what the dealers buy One h a lf so precious as the wares they sell." — An adaptation o f Omar Khayyam. While I participated in the emergence o f Lo n ­ don's counter community, both in private life and while working w ith others on O Z and related phenomena, I have always been handi­ capped by a copyw riting mentality and an

inability to remember much o f what happened the day before yesterday. I still tend to think o f the Paris Commune as a mixture o f Moulin Rouge and a Kibbutz. Y e t up until the O Z trial I felt marginally useful in propagandising the Movement and denigrating the values o f contemporary society, from which I have always felt to some extent disenfranchised. Since then I have felt adrift, and just as one takes tally o f those w ith on e’s own afflictions, I have been astounded by the number o f men o f my age group and attitudinal proclivities w ho are becalmed in the same craft. (T h e above choice o f sex is intentional, not convenient. A n y woman not involved to some extent in the w om en's m ovem ent is either stupid or a masochist.) M y confusion is the product o f privilege. An yon e stuck at the wrong end o f a conveyor belt or sweating in his own excrement in a coal seam three miles under the N orth Sea, should kn ow who he's fighting and why. It seems so shallow to occasionally pick up the gauntlet o f the State w ith a flourish o f plagiarised slogans or to fight a journalist’s revolution upon a barricade o f underground press cards. Somewhere, in the deep despairing luxury o f m y wallowing nostalgia, poised between Boys’ Own Annual and a paperback Orwell, I sometimes pretend to lament the passing o f situations as clear as the Spanish Civil War, when assistance from international volunteers was specifically sought. Recruits were not dismissed as middle class meddlers, but appre­ ciated as dedicated idealists, who put Lee Enfields where their mouths were. It wasn't all napalm, personnel bombs and space age b oob y traps. One joined forces with a demo­ cratically elected government — if yo u ’ll fo r­ give the phrase - affiliated with a w ide spec­ trum o f radical groupings. The enemy was a ripening fascism, a filth y Church and the re­ hearsing war machines o f Germany and Italy. T o get there, you hopped on a train at V ic ­ toria. They don’t make wars like that anymore. N ot that it is war, as such, which is at all tempting. It is the prospect, or challenge, o f helping to get power to the people. N o t in an impossibly saintly or selfless manner, or as a h obby or ‘career’ but in such a w ay that it gives life meaning. Some o f us accept the superstition that true artists have the power o f self-fulfillment, that som ehow their work is a battleground for resolving private, internal tensions. L ife itself is an art form, and one object o f the revolution is surely to give everyone access to their inner self. Part o f the problem o f the spiritually expatriate is hard core individualism. One can mentally appreciate that the future o f urban politics lies in the power o f collective action and a com munity renaissance. While deeper down, I was programmed on the play­ grounds o f a public school, nursed on the tit o f competitiveness and I discovered puberty through the com ic book concept o f romantic love, a believer in the Kiss which is Bliss (w ith a fe w extra fucks on the side). Like Oliver Edwards, w h o’s am bition was to be a philo­ sopher, and couldn't, because “ cheerfulness was always breaking in ", some o f us want to help build an Alternative Movem ent and are hampered by the intrusion o f our contra­ dictory past (to say nothing o f cheerfulness). So that sets us sometimes adrift. I suppose in previous times, those in this unsavoury mood, who were not fully har­ nessing their soul, w ould have whisked them­ selves o ff to rape a new frontier; gone West young man, mapped the Australian outback or set-off in search o f Dr Livingstone. Even i f ploughing through jungles could, these days, be morally reconcilable there are not many left, and som ehow driving a bull­ dozer ahead o f the Brazilian transcontinental highway isn’t quite the same thing. And that last resort o f the idle dreamer, the moon, has become, as the Daily Express n oted with glee, the prerogative o f “ squares, those who don’t mind saying a prayer n ow and then, who look clean and are proud o f their flag.” Some people fill the vacuum by challen­ ging the impossible, and winning. N ot always

fo r the glory and public acclaim — the like o f which, say, Sir Francis Chichester could not have anticipated - but fo r its simple human self enrichment. The Strange Voyage o f Donald Crowhurst, as brilliantly reconstructed by tw o Sunday Times journalists*, makes clear the allurement o f a global challenge and reveals the risks o f the game if the player is unprepared. Being neither unscrupulous nor heroic, Crowhurst having embarked on a mission o f forgone failure, was left no choice but ignom iny or suicide. He was trapped in a m yth o f his own making, the sure-fire winner o f the round the w orld yacht race, and when even modest success eluded him, he began believing, while drifting im potently around the Atlantic, that Einstein was G od and mathematics the k ey to the universe. Malcolm Muggeridge has called this a saga o f our time, and fo r once I agree with him. Scratch form er members o f the Youthquake, and bleeds a little bit o f Donald Crow­ hurst. “ But he got sick o f himself. Near the end he was at Kesey's farm in Oregon, and I guess he was in the middle o f a big party and Neal co u ld n ’t stand it another m inute, and he rushed ou t w ithout a jacket, w ithout his cigarettes and went to the highway and hitchiked down and called m e fro m a frien d ’s house .... T h ey’d put him to bed, h e ’d c o l­ lapsed ... He said he co u ld n 't stand it another minute, the life he was liv in g ." — Carolyn Cassady, talking o f her form er husband Neal Cassady. R o llin g Stone magazine. Once upon a time in a country far away, when I was caught up in the mesmerising trivia o f battling local smut squads, there was an oasis o f placid dom esticity, wherein *N icholas Tom alin and R on Hall.

lived a friend called Anne. Over the years I saw her casually, never thinking o f troub­ ling her w ith the manly cares o f dismantling the O ld Jerusalem. A t that tim e she was a career-mad m odel and behaved like those wom en in hair spray commercials. Later in London w e kept sentimental track o f each other, both playing our opposing roles. On the morning awaiting the ju ry ’s verdict at the O Z trial, lookin g up fro m the dock I noticed Anne in the public gallery, sun­ tanned and elegant, back no doubt from some hideous modelling excursion in Malta, n ow lo yally supporting an o ld friend. A fte r the gaol days, when released on appeal, I learnt she had been arrested on the steps o f the O ld Bailey fo r “ assaulting a police­ man” . N o w she is stunningly transformed, one o f the most vigorous and dedicated radical feminists in London — in permanent pitched battle against social calamities During the final days o f the Stoke N ew in g­ ton Trial, I watched her circling the “ W C’ island opposite the Old Bailey, hour after hour, holding aloft a placard, her face blue with the dawning winter cold. So she is part o f a second wave; a secret weapon I didn’t know we had. So while Anne and a squadron o f kamikaze kids trash the establishment, I sit here mulling over who's going to pay my pen­ sion when I'm 64 and what are the short cuts to Nirvana; still pondering h ow all our raging energies can be massively, fruitfully and enlightenedly organised, meanwhile mostly, like Donald Crowhurst, drifting man, just drifting. " I f I should die, think on ly this o f me That there's some corner o f a foreign field That is forever W oodstock". Oh, bullshit.

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Gay slang has been coined and used by those within the gay subculture who themselves feel the most oppressed - the flagrant wrist benders, the screaming queens, the men who look like women, the women who don’t shave their moustaches. It is a form o f social protest, aimed at the establishment; it is also selfprotective and self-defeating. Gay militants would like to see it go, and argue rightly that gay jargon is yet another link innthe chain which holds the hom osexual enslaved and oppressed — yet its widespread use and complex vocabulary indic­ ate that gay liberation has still a long battle in front o f it. The selections which follow are taken from a Straight Arrow publication. “The Queens’ Vernacular” by Bruce Rodgers. The words are mostly American. Even the classic English phrase, ‘queer basher’ is not included.

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Iiave sex with young boy*. - chicken rustler homosexual placed in charge o f b oys w h o abuses members o f the group. clean queen (late 60s) homosexual w h o does his wash and cruising at the laundromat Related term: bubble palace - any laundrom at crabs crab lice infecting the pubic areas. "T h e w ind is strong enough to b low away my dead crabs.'’ Related term: fa m ily - (fro m prosti­ tute’s slang, late 40s) “ Sleep w ith that pig and y o u ’ll p robably end up w ith a fam ily to fe e d ." Other syn.: love bugs, social dandruff, crotch crickets (late 60s). dairy queen 1. gay milkman "A r e you sure that your sweet petunia hasn’t been having an affair w ith the dairy queen? 2. gay farmer. 3. early morning liaison (San Francisco, ’ 71) “ G et a good start, have a dairy queen in the morning." damaged goods

(fro m hobo slang, early 50s) form er virgin.

daisy chain (early 50s, fro m an analogy w ith a w oven chain o f daisies) an orgy o f men. Men linked anus to penis, anus to penus simultaneously. Synonyms: chain gang, flora l arrangement, rin g around the rosy. Related term: Fugitive fro m the chain gang ( ’40s) on e o f the links in a daisy chain. deliver a baby a hard-on.

(L o s Angeles, late ’60s) to rem ove the pants and expose

dinge queen (in white slang) w hite homosexual w ho prefers black men sexually. W hite gays w ill sometimes state that dinge queen is not meant to be derisive, but black homosexuals reinforce the term w ith a stinging double entendre such as: "W h y do I hang aroun’ w if o n ly m y black sistuhs? W hy sugah, you k now I ’m a dinge queen at heart.” Synonyms: chocola te lover, coal burner (prison slang), m idnight queen (M idw est hustler slang, late ’ 60s) “ Y o u T l never get near him. H e ’s a midnight queen and yo u ’re n ot even seven th irty.” do social work (San Francisco, ’70) to date a member o f another race. T o strive to be constantly hip by showing o n e’s broadmindedness. easter queen ( ’ 70) homosexual w ho ejaculates prematurely. H e comes as quick as a rabbit. electric queen (San Francisco hip gay slang late ’60s) homosexual fo l­ low ing hippie life style. eye fu ck (late ’ 60s) 1. to undress someone visually. 2. to stare holes through someone.

Cheesy: having the foreskin lined with smegma fairy hawks those w ho take pleasure in harrassing and terrorising homosexuals. Synonym (England) queer basher. fairy's ph one booth sexual

lavatory cubicle occupied b y a cruising h om o­

fa iry's wand any phallic staff carried b y a homosexual. Fairy wands include cigarettes stuck into rhinestone studded cigarette holders, umbrellas carried when there is no possible chance o f rain, pencils, long-stemmed Am erican beauty roses or even joss sticks. T h e hand holding a fairy wand usually performs w ild ly exaggerated gestures. Synonym : p ix ie stick. fall o f f the r o o f 1. to menstruate. “ She can’t answer your call buddy. She fe ll o f f the r o o f last n igh t." 2. to be irritable, over sensitive, cranky fish p on d

vagina.

fish queen (dated) 1. one who sucks cunt. 2. (p ejorative) any hetero­ sexual man. frozen fru it

frigid homosexual.

fruit boots (dated) Throughout the ’ 50s, these were w h ite tennis shoes or white suede shoes. Into the ’ 60s the term became the Beatle boots or any Italian sharp-toed shoes which heightened the so-called effem inisation o f Am erican youth. Since almost everyone n ow wears fruit boots, the viciousness behind the term is all but lost. fruit fly (pejorative) wom an w h o enjoys the com pany o f gay men. Synonym : fag hag. golden shower a stream o f piss. G olden shower queen is a urine fetishist w h o enjoys being pissed on. 2. (cam p) one w ho has disregard fo r the feelings o f others; one w h o pisses on people. Related term: ilden screw anal intercourse w ith urine instead o f semen released to the rectum.

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gorilla salad thick, hairy pubic area. Grand Canyon loose fittin g anus, as com plained about b y an active partner. Synonym : L in c o ln Tunnel. Grand Canyon Suite, noisy sloppy sounding intercourse. Grand Central Sta tion (fro m narcotic usage tracks = needle marks) scarred arm o f a die-hard heroin addict.. grope to fon dle another person’s genitals through their clothes. "Y o u shouldn’ t grope — d idn’t your m other ever tell y ou it wasn’t p olite to play w ith your f o o d ! " Synonym : to read braille. happy valley

the cleft separating the buttocks.

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have a cu p o f tea

to use a public to ilet fo r having sex.

hung estimating cock size — especially used o f lon g penises. “ Is he w ell hung?" — like a doughnut. Having a vagina. Being a woman. — like a field mouse. T o possess a small penis. “ It was dismal. He was hung like a field mouse and I wasn't in to being tickled to death.” — like a horse, bull, old mule, showdog, stallion, stud. Equipped w ith a large penis. jack o f f to masturbate. — dishonourable discharge Com ing hom e and jacking o f f after failing to score. — the housewifes h ou r (Sap Francisco ' 70) nudafternoon. A masturbation period enjoyed b y housewives, shut-ins, stay-at-homes as an interruption to boredom. lace (curtains) dangling foreskin o f uncircumscised penis. Synonyms: blinds; curtains; drapes. ‘ M y dear, there was so much dust on those drapes that I ’d sneeze when I go t near him .” Opera capes, on io n skin, goat skin. R elated terms: D raw the blind, to pull back the foreskin. R ide a blind piece to fellate an uncircumscised man. meals on wheels teenagers cruising in autom obiles up and d ow n the main thoroughfares o f to w n on a w eekend night. m u ff 1. (fro m m u ff - warm enclosure fo r the hands / fro m French m oufle = m itten) the vagina when erotically licked. Synonyms: bush I dinner, down, fu r burger, hairpie. 2. to tongue the clitoris and vulva. Synonyms: dive (in the bushes), go South (dated), pearl dive, sneeze in the cabbage, whistle in the dark, y od e l (in the canyon o f love). Related terms: boating mutual cunnilingus, bum per sticker tongue o f a cunnilinctrice, lawnmower the mouth o f a cuntsucker. pu t on a few hesitation marks “ hesitation marks" = scars on wrists o f attem pted suicides. Gaining weight is enough to make some queens suicidal, so instead o f saying “ putting on a fe w pounds dear?’ 1one may subtly dig the knife deeper w ith a “ putting on a fe w hesitation marks, precious?” ribbon clerk

homosexual w ith a desk job.

scenery general w ord fo r anything admired lustfully “ I d id n 't care fo r the steam room though — fogged up the scenery.' Related term: have a lo t o f scenery to be cruisy le packed to the ro o f w ith eligible men show tunes copulative grunts and groans. Sex noises sfcin nueen ( ’ 71) one w h o regards his sex partners as objects rather than people. A gay sexist “ Y o u ’re such a skin queen — all you think o f is h ow t i^ it the asshole gotta b e ."

Lace (curtains): dangling, uncircumscised foreskin sad-ass (cam p) sadist. “ Y o u k now what Santa the Sad-ass sings at Yuletide: “ Sleigh bells sting.” ” small m eat a little penis (usually under five inches) symbolised b y holding the little finger erect. T o a size queen anything under ten inches is small meat. “ O n ly nine inches? Sorry to hear about your d eform ity.” R elated term: drip-dry lover (m id-’ 60s) man with a small penis. “ H e’ s a drip-dry ... his jo in t is to o short to shake.” snap som ebody's bra straps spray som ebody's tonsils spray starch

(cam p) to break som ebody’s back.

to com e in his mouth.

the psychic substance keeping heterosexual wrists straight.

triple treat queen trojan horse

one w h o ’ll fuck a mouth, anus or arm pit

manly facade.

tro u t rich, vulgar o ld wom an in mink. - fishing describing a hunster’s hunt fo r a rich old wom an to keep him. tw irl the pearls

to dance.

tw o dots and a dash

male genitalia.

underwear (cam p) a drag queen’ s five o ’clock shadow. "Y o u r under­ w ear’s showing = you need a shave.’ van dyke 1. lesbian w ith traces o f a moustache on her upper lip and, though rarely, her chin. 2. (San Francisco, ’ 70) lesbian truckdriver. Vaseline Villa vegetarian

a gay Y M C A .

man w ho does n ot suck cock.

wall queen 1. homosexual w ho supports himself against a wall (in an elevator or alleyw ay) while he has sex. “ That wall queen was as warm as a nap.” 2. (San Francisco, ’ 70) hom osexual w h o reads lavatory walls; b y extension, one w h o locks himself in a toilet stall for hours. wear a red (green) sweater (t ie ) to be obviously gay. "H e w ore that red sweater to the grave, man — th at’s on e sweater you can’t take o ff . ” xerox queen ( ’ 71) one whose sex life is so narrow that he treats all lovers alike — as if th ey were copies o f each other. Zelda (Cape T o w n gay slang) pure blooded Zulu. B etty light skinned Bantu. Colora (fro m coloured person) one o f m ixed blood, mulatto, quadroon etc.

Eyefuck: to undress someone visually

zip p er dinner

hurried foliation.

Paris since 1968 is no place fo r either lovers or lefties. T Seine is n ow the central gutter fo r an autoroute, the c ity is a forest o f glass-crete Centrepoints, the gauchistes and student revolutionaries are outnum bered by the C om m on Markets most brutal riot squads, and if you can’t fit into the Pom pidou (th e man Mr. Heath loves) program ming, then y o u 'll probably be beaten up, gaoled and even guillotined. David Sharp, w h o has been living in Paris fo r the past year, has filed us this report.

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A pril, 1972: There is som e­ thing beautiful about the quality o f the light in Paris; something connected w ith the style and fineness and balance o f the old buildings. Or m aybe I should say, there was something beautiful. Walking dow n the Rue G e o ffro y St Hilaire on a spring morning, w ith the trees and iv y o f the Jardin des Plantes o n one side, and the Mosque and a graceful line o f old bourgeois apartments on the other, something horrible happens to your eyes. A t the point where the street turns in to the Rue Jus­ sieu and heads towards the nearby Latin Quarter, stands the faculty o f science building. Smashing totally the delicate lines and light patterns, the faculty o f science is a huge, utterly featureless and totally black tow er. It stands in a desolate plain o f concrete, the m onotony o n ly slightly broken by the occasional slogan painted on the wall. A bas la repression, Indochine vaincra, R evolution

anarchiste. A glimpse o f this monstrous Ministry o f L o ve w ill tell you m ore than volumes about the modern french state. But on this particular day I didn't make it dow n that road. Large grey van o f Paris police, crow d o f innocent bystanders. Bourgeois housewives craning fro m the safety o f their apart­ ment windows. Diversion. ‘A llez-y par la, s'il vous p la it.' I trudged round the outskirts o f what I at first thought must be some huge and unimaginable carcrash until I reached a vantagepoint from which I could lo o k dow n fro m a hill upon the science building. It was then that I first heard the dull ‘thum p’ , and saw the arching sm oky trace o f the gas cannisters. There must have been easily as many flics (fu z z ) as stu­ dents. Small, tense lookin g men in black uniforms. R ifle at the shoulder, club swinging nervously, itchingly in the hand. Endless

lines o f the sinister Blue and grey buses in which they arrived. Steel helmets and plexiglass shields. T h e y had the students surrounded, but everyone knew that the stu­ dents w ou ldn ’t attack; the accel­ erated history o f the past five years has taught them a lo t about tactics. On this occasion a fe w stones were thrown, a bit o f gas, and eventually the heroic police occupied the nearby faculty o f Censier, cause o f all the trouble. It is the kind o f scene I have seen at least four o r five times in Paris in the year I've been here, and I d on ’t go out lo o k in g for such scenes. The experience is terri­ fy in g (t o an English person, salu­ tary) but the point is impossible to miss. When you see the sheer numbers o f police, and the amount o f weaponry that the authorities are prepared to d ep loy fo r a thou­ sand or so students and young people, you begin to wonder, rightly enouqh, who it is w ho's really frightened. A n y Saturday

night in summer, dow n in the Latin Quarter (th e part o f Paris where the riotin g first started in May 1968) you w ill see a line o f six, seven, even ten grey or black buses. And out in the working class suburbs, where the natives are, if anything, even more rest­ less, the situation is the same. Each bus carries about thirty ‘ flics’ . Som ehow you don ’t get the impression they are there to help old ladies across the street. In France, the 'underground' as it is known at the moment in England o r Am erica has never really existed as anything m ore than a h o llow and self-conscious im itation o f an im ported fashion. ( I speak here o f the underground on a social, rather than on a poli­ tical and artistic level). I f y o u ’re com ing to Paris lookin g to score and get wasted fo r a couple o f months, y o u ’ d do much better to try Amsterdam. H o llo w faced, paranoid lookin g people in the

Latin Quarter stop y ou in the street and ask fo r a franc, or drape themselves theatrically around the bars and street corners strum­ ming tunelessly on guitars and lookin g tragic; I have it on very gpod authority that 99% o f them live at their parents’ place in the suburbs; the m oney they try to con o f f y ou is pure pocket money, a pastime. An d the rich variety o f this species can be fou nd in places like St Germain des Pres and M ont­ parnasse, 'ivin g o f f the borrow ed myths o f Paris ‘ La Bohem e', imi­ tating Henry Miller, or Rimbaud, or A n d y Warhol; aspirants to the ‘Jet-Set’. “ L a Coupole is where the revolu tion ’s really beginning", one such to ld me, naming the most famous and expensive literary hang-out in the city. O K fo r the revolution i f yo u can afford the clothes and the coffee. But the thing that I find really interesting about Paris, the thing that makes life here so refreshingly

d ifferent fo r an English person a bit weary o f spacing out and the Sunday Times, and revolution a la Virgin Records, is n ot ‘ Les freaks' at all, but rather, ‘ Les gauchistes’ . The gauchistes (literally means leftists) are m ostly young people, though there is a large, amorphous movement o f older people, artists, writers, journalists and intellectials to be counted am ong their ranks. The list o f groups is endless: d if­ fering shades o f Trotskyism, M ao­ ism, syndicalists, gay lib, w o m en ’s lib, anarchism, situationism, and hangers-on and undecided; the permutations change and recom ­ bine all the tim e. T hen there are groups organised round specific issues rather than ideas: prison movement, abortion, immigrant labourers, housing crisis and so on. A brief history w ou ld be fas­ cinating, but it w ou ld probably fill about tw en ty issues o f O Z. The most famous gauchiste is o f course Jean Paul Sartre, al­ though no-one w ou ld be politically

naive enough to call him a figure­ head. The bourgeois press, in fact, tend to keep very quiet about him, since he has some rather to o tangible ways o f fighting back. When, fo r example, the Govern­ ment tried the year before last to suppress the most subversive o f the gauchiste papers — specifically the maoist ‘ La cause du peuple’ , Sartre himself went out on the streets to sell it, daring the govern­ ment in e ffe c t to arrest him. The pathetic nationalist concept o f the French bourgeoisie is h ow ever far to o developed to a llo w them to imprison such a famous 'cultural' figure: they feeb ly arrested him and after a fe w days let him go. ‘ La cause du peuple' still sells on the streets. I have seen gauchisme defined as that part o f the political spec­ trum in France to the le ft o f the Communist Party, which w ould seem to be somewhat naive, bearing in mind the present role o f the PCF. The Communists detest the gauchistes, mainly because they expose the party’s bourgeois electioneering fo r what it really is. It was o f course the Communist Party w h o finally cracked the near-revolution o f May ’ 68, and thus earned the eternal gratitude o f the ruling class. When the entire country had been e ffec tiv e ly abolished for three weeks, factories occupied, streets cleared, imagination taken power; when the im potent de Gaulle was desperately moving tanks up to Paris, it was the PCF w h o succeeded in swinging it. ‘ A ll the workers want is more m on ey’ , was in effec t what they said. ‘ N o w le t’s have no more rioting, no m ore black flags, no m ore disrespect o f authority (i.e. ou r authority), le t’s just get m ore m oney and then go back to w o rk ’. Since then, there has o f course fo llo w ed a period o f reaction. The ruling class tries hard to consoli­ date itself, and to forget, repress the nightmare. The universities have had social science budgets slashed, while those fo r tech­ n ology and management have gone up. It is n ow much more difficu lt to get in to a university if y o u ’re not a ‘safe’ type o f person. The police force, especially the form idable ‘ special p olice’ has been increased. But the bour­ geoisie w ill never again feel really safe until a n ew generation has grown up who, hopefully, will have forgotten M ay '68. For this generation o f young french people, it was a rehearsal that they will never forget. A n experience lived through ‘in the real’ , which fo r the revolutionaries o f Am erica and England remains nothing m ore than a sad wish dream up to the present. The difference in level o f political consciousness on all the oppressed levels o f society between England and France is undeniable; fro m the English point o f view , the tw enty m ile gu lf across the channel is in fact wider than the tw o thousand mile gap to Am erica. I f the Conjmon Market could achieve any­ thing fo r the peoples o f the tw o countries it could at least make this gulf a bit less wide. I earn m y living b y odd jobs, and giving private English lessons, a reasonably lucrative jo b which is not d ifficu lt to find i f you advertise enough. One day a week

I go in to help out at the A P L (A gen ce de Presse Liberation), doing translations o f material fro m Northern Ireland and odd things like that. A P L is I think one o f the most interesting things happening at the m om ent; it is n o w gathering momentum, open­ ing soon an o ffic e in London and also producing the first gauchiste daily paper. It is a drawing to ­ gether o f people o f many political colours, people w ho tw o years ago w ou ld have been much too involved in the minutiae o f their abstract theories to even talk to each other. Some evenings I g o down to Les Hailes, where a group o f psychiatrists are w orking to create a free therapy com m unity and an alternative school. A n d just about every w eek recently, there has been a demonstration in support o f the Vietnamese people — and not o f four or five people either. Meanwhile P om pidou ’s monster tow er blocks sprout up on the western horizon, and somewhere in a rich suburb, Henry Kissinger is lyin g to Le Due Tho. D. M. Sharp.

A P P E N D IX : A n incom plete selection o f useful/interesting Paris addresses/info. PAPERS: A C T U E L (nearest thing to a french O Z ). G o o d fo r ads as well. 2 Impasse Lebouis, 14eme. T el: FON-47-20. L A C A U SE DU P E U PLE Maoist L U T T E O U V R IE R E Trotskyist L E F L E A U S O C IA L Gay L ib (F ro n t homosexual d’ A ctio n Revolutionaire) LE T O R C H O N B R U L E ‘ The dishcloth is burning' W om en’s Lib. C H A R L IE H EBDO Satirical politics LE N O U V E L O BSE RVATEU R Mass circulation le ft magazine LE M O N D E L IB E R T A IR E Anarchiste paper. LE M O N D E is the best daily for inform ation; F R A N C E S O IR is good fo r ads. IN T E R N A T IO N A L H E R A L D T R IB U N E occasionally has jobs and is in English! B O O K SH O PS ______________________ S H A K E S P E A R E A N D CO, just o f f the Rue St Jacques by N o tre Dame: lots o f English books, p oetry readings. L A CO M M U N E Rue G e o ffro y St Hilaire, near Censier. L A JOIE DE L IR E Rue de La Harpe, Latin Quar­ ter. There are tw o A M E R IC A N CE N TR E S , one in the Boulevard Raspail (M etro Raspail), the other Rue du Dragon (M etro St Germain) b oth g o o d fo r putting up ads, entertainment and m eeting people. B R IT IS H C O U N C IL is in Rue des Ecoles, M etro Maubert Mutualite: library can sometimes help with jobs. P R O V O Y A will get y o u a lift (p ayin g p etrol) i f y ou pay them ten francs. 209 Bd. St Germaine, 7eme. T el: 544-12-92. A P L , 14 Rue de Bretagne, 3eme. T el: 508-84-44.

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The conclusion I (and oth ers) have reached — incredible as it m ay seem — is that the slaying o f Sharon Tate and h er dope-dealing friends was planned and engineer­ ed at the highest levels o f A m e ri­ can govern m en t I'v e tracked down the individual that Manson and Tex Watson m et with. H e is in N avy Intelligence, which is D iv i­ sion Five o f the FBI, which is essentially the C IA . H e was also know n as a hippie artist. I even considered the possi­ b ility that there were tw o d iffer­ ent characters, but I interviewed some peop le he stayed with in his artistic role, and on ce during an argument he shouted at a y ou ng woman, " Y o u 'r e n oth in g but a d irty Jew! ” That certainly does­ n ’t evolve o u t o f the hippie ethic. Y ou m ig h t expect to be chastised fo r being basically middle-class, perhaps, and indeed there is a key to understanding this case. In ord er fo r the u n h oly trin ity — m ilita ry intelligence, corporate pow er and organised crim e — to maintain co n tro l, th ey must divide

T h e Trials o f O Z opened o f f Broadway on Dec 19 to an intriguingly diverse reception. Dis­ agreement centred around the inclusion o f music (fro m John Lennon & Y o k o Ono, Buzy Linhart and M ick Jagger), “ sustains m ood beautifully...not Broadway R ock but excitin g and driving stu ff” said one critic, “ more o f an interruption than a help” , said another. The play was condensed fro m

THE UNBELIEV ABLE M A N I F E S T O O F THE A S S A S S IN CUI

WORSHIP HIM! KILL FOR HIM! DIE FOR HIM!

M AKE LOVE FOR H IM !

Rankin William

Paul Krassner is the editor o f the Realist, an interm ittently pub­ lished, occasionally brilliant, magazine (subs 84 a year from 595 Broadway, N ew Y o rk 10012). Krassner also w rote ‘ H o w a Satiri­ cal E ditor Became a Y ip p ie Con­ spirator in T en Easy Years’ ($ 7 fro m same place). When Ed Sanders was w riting his b o o k The Fam ily about the Manson murders he promised to let Krassner publish in the Realist all the bits that Sanders had been forced to leave out. Last December Sanders changed his mind. Sanders was being sued b y the Process Church o f the Final Judgment and his attorneys w ouldn’t let Krassner see the files. N o t unsurprisingly Krassner became obsessed w ith the missing bits and started his ow n research. He even hired private detectives to check o u t facts. T he result? Krassner suffered what he calls a ‘ paranoid freakou t’. He also ran out o f cash. But he produced an article called ‘ The Parts L e ft O u t o f the Manson B ook ’. It ’ ll be printed in the 13th anniversary issue o f the Realist. Here, fo r O Z readers, is a foretaste Parts o f the Parts L e ft O ut o f the Manson B o o k ............

the original six w eek farce at the O ld Bailey b y G e o ff Robertson, the future Chief Justice, and directed b y Jim m y Sharman, the young m eteor fro m Gundagai, who is renow ned fo r his w orld w ide homage to the genre o f Jesus Rock. Some detected a ‘ smug’ bias in favour o f the defendants. " A ll courtroom scenes fro m Perry Mason onwards have a certain charm but this has less than most”, said N Y Tim es critic, Clive Barnes in the course o f an inconclusive and almost incoherent review which, unlike his usual fare, was n ot re-run in the Lon don Times. (H is verdict on O Z : “ The dullest thing to com e out o f Australia since the Koala Bear” ). Critics were generally enthral­ led b y the cou rtroom scenes, which they could scarcely believe, and dubbed them : “ Impressive” , “ entertaining” o r "o n e o f the most theatrically excitin g things to com e along fo r a g o o d w h ile” . Considering it was produced on a shoe string, w ith no m oney spare for prom otion, in a city unblessed w ith any idea o f what O Z is; then the first fe w weeks have been remarkably successful. That no-one staged a com mer­ cial production in Lon don is understandable, given the current state o f the West End. That it was produced at all is due to one middle aged American, LS D and a c op y o f R ollin g Stone. M ore details another time, but the Trials o f O Z came about through the energy and obsession o f Van W olf, w ho died o f cancer b efore he ever saw a rehearsal. His form er friends and business associates decided to go ahead w ith the production more out o f respect fo r Mr W olf, rather than shobiz acumen, and while this magazine is n ot form ally involved w ith the production we are delighted that the jokes which once echoed through the antique alcoves o f the O ld Bailey are now rocking em in the aisles in Green­ wich Village. “ A unique and dis­ arming entertainm ent” , said The D aily News, "a n d one that raises a number o f disturbing questions during its m ostly lighthearted course” ; w hich is e xactly h o w w e fe lt about the original.

Rankin

"T h e re are no evil people, there are o n ly v ictim s " — Jerry Garcia talking to Charlie Manson.

this: I am conn ected with k illin g the Indians, and I'm connected with k illin g the Mayans, the Incas. I'm conn ected w ith everything that's been done in the name o f Christ in nineteen hundred and seventy years. I fe e l that I'm co n ­ n ected with a ll o f it, and I feel that it's just as m uch m y fa ult as it was whoever pu lled the triggers, because I'm still lettin ’ it go on. I'm le ttin ’ it happen over in V ie t­ nam righ t now. I'm responsible fo r everything, you know, I'm responsible fo r everything Man is doing to this earth and its sky and its waters and its animals, all o f it......... " When Charles Manson g o t out o f ja il in the spring o f 1967 and ended up in Haight-Ashbury, he had been sent to give the kiss o f death to the flow er children. What happened to Charles Manson is the p erfe ct re fle ctio n o f a society that preaches law and order but practices the manip­ u lation o f justice.

William

CIA killed Sharon Tate.

and conquer. A n d what better target — a long with blacks and Chicanos and p o o r whites — than the hippies? The logical extension o f th e k life-style w ould upset the econom y. F olk s who d o n 't eat m uch meat, who m ake th eir own clothes, who share autom obiles and washing machines and phono­ graphs, who take care o f each o th e r and d o n 't purchase insurance p o lic ie s .....why, even Herman Kahn on ce a dm itted to m e that it was the hippies who were delaying the guaranteed annual wage. A n d so it came to pass that Manson was chosen. I t is iro n ic beyond coincidence that the real villain o f th e Manson fam ily, Tex Watson, supposedly m e t Charlie when he, Tex, picked up Beach B oy Dennis Wilson hitching, to o k him to his beach house and there was Swengali waiting. I t was T ex who did the sh oot­ ing and m ost o f the stabbing at the Tate house. Y e t he was held in a Texas ja il — his L o s Angeles lawyers were scooted o u t o f town by federal cops — and there he was held till a fter Charlie was found guilty. In the Manson trial, since Charlie had n o t been at the scene o f th e crime, it was necessary fo r p rosecu tor V in cen t Bugliosi to convince the ju ry that Tex and the girls were all zom bies under Charlie’s co n tro l. Whereas, in Tex Watson's trial, since he pleaded n o t g u ilty by reason o f insanity, this same Bugliosi insisted that Tex was n o t a zom bie, he knew precisely what he was doing. He was also fou n d guilty, but it wasn’t quite the same thing, image-wise. In a le tter to me, Charlie asserts that although he knew what was goin g to happen, it was Tex who to ld the girls what to do. When Jerry R u b in visited Manson in prison before the trial, he a dm itted his guilt this way: "A s far as any co n n ection with the Tate murders and myself, and the fa m ily that I live with, I 'll say

W e are gradually being set up fo r the worst piece o f L a w R eform since Henry V I I I introduced boiling in o il as a legitimate m ethod o f execution. That is the legislation which w ill give e ffec t to the recomm endations o f the Criminal L a w Revision Com m ittee to, as they put it, alter the balance o f the criminal trial in favour o f the prosecution. Most reputable lawyers are attacking the proposals — but n o t nearly hard enough. This sort o f danger

calls fo r a mass walk out by them. ’ strongest sexual urges y o u ’ve ever But w e'll never see that, the legis­ experienced. A fte r that yo u 'll want to die. Ultim ately you com e lation w ill go through and fo r a to a discovery that you and all while nothing much w ill happen. This w ill be taken as a justification. outside are U N K N O W N . A ccep t this and rest. Y o u w ill feel content. But with all these changes w e're laying the foundation fo r a truly Afterw ards w e ’re to ld that the tyrannical state in a fe w year’s benefits w ill probably include: time. Say the year after Heath The o ld self does n ot attract you has N ixon ed us in to giving him any longer. another term. And trouble with N o boredom. alLthese amendments is they are N o lack o f energy to do the things far harder to undo than they are that have to be done. to enact. A ll too soon they Acceptance o f whatever happens, becom e what people accept as whichever way. normal and slow ly yo u slide into Greek ColonelsviUe. N o mental e ffe c t fro m morphine, hashish or LSD N o t much need fo r medicine. N o wish to take advantage o f another. N o willingness to be taken advan­ tage of. N o guilt ridden introversion. Minor death-rebirths follow in g:

temperamental authors and ridi­ culous to expect them to behave like chartered accountants. Also as the b oo k was designed fo r the head market you w ou ld have thought that O w en w ou ld have some sym pathy w ith the Freak M entality and L ife Style — if he didn't, then his taking the book was callous opportunism. I t ’s a cautionary tale fo r those dissi­ dents w h o think they can use the establishment media to serve their cause and (a ) communicate their ideas and (b ) make some m oney to support their habits.

death to various aspects o f your self personality — like to a G od concept, to the intellect, or to a part o f your sex trip, ego trip.

Chairman Whitlam! Grassroots Express seems to be free and com es fro m Aquarius Foundation, 344 V ictoria Street, N orth Melbourne 3051, Victoria. A n yo n e w h o hasn’t started buying Spare R ib (th e magazine for w om ­ en (o r men) w h o can't stand male chauve piggery) should do so im mediately. It gets better all the tim e and unlike any other alter­ native publication com es out regularly and is sold by WHSmiths. Every issue has som ething in it that’s g ood or useful or exciting. This m onth they did a reverse role cosmetic jo b on artist Michael Ramsden to make a point about what happens when yo u treat wom en as objects to be decorated and exhibited. O Z however beat Spare R ib to i t Ramsden was O Z jail bait o f the m onth in issue 29 iq a fu tile attempt b y us to get rid o f our male sexist reputation. Subscriptions £2 a year to Spare Rib Ltd, 9 Newburgh Street, Lon don W 1 A 4XS.

I f y ou want to die, write to George Stewart fo r deatails: 88 Rippon St, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. 'G o o d lu ck — Keep Humming. I f Baba Ram Dass (O Z 45) hasn’t helped you find the true path to cosmic awareness George Stewart might be able to help. H e’s w rit­ ten to O Z from India with in for­ mation on the H ow-To- Die-WhileLiving-Experience. He tells us there are 300 satisfied experi­ menters in Goa. The instructions fo r the Death Trip, as it’ s known fo r short, are: 1) Find a quiet place to lie down on your right side, preferably in a foeta l position. 2) Cut yourself o f f fro m all sights and sounds. It is alright to hear the words people are speaking, but do not try to understand the meaning o f the words. 3) T ry n ot to escape through sleep. 4) D o not analyse, or feel ashamed or guilty about anything you may think, hear, or see w ithing your­ self. The more guilty you feel the more y o u ’ll bum and smell o f sulphur. 5) Y o u may burn as y o u ’ve never burned before. D on ’t try to avoid it, and don’t interrupt the dying process. I f you do, y o u ’ll have to begin it all again on some later day. Y o u may eat if y o u ’re hungry or drink if y o u ’re thirsty, but on ly enough to appease you r hunger or thirst. T ry not to lose yourself in taste sensations, and don’t lo o k at nor listen to those w ho are serving you. 6) D on ’t be afraid. Watch the w hole show dispassionately. Y o u 'll see that your whole life up to n ow is constructed on fear. 7) Be prepared to enter the deep­ est H ell y o u ’ve ever been in. But, remember, there's no avoiding it. I f you don ’ t go through it today, y o u ’ll have to on the day you die; but it w ill be just a little to o late then, as you may regret not having know n life after rebirth. George Stewart advises that the sort o f experiences that might happen once you start include: feverish, jum bled thoughts, fears o f insanity, pain and confusion, visions o f your fam ily and past life, images o f the games you've played throughout your life, the

OZ has received a six-page state­ ment fro m George Andrews, the man w h o w rote The B ook o f Grass. It’s an attack on Peter Owen; the publisher, w h o gave George a con­ tract fo r the b o o k signing over w orld rights. O w en then sold rights in the U S A to Grove Press (w h o sold over 20,000 copies) in France to Fayard and the paper­ back rights in Britain to Penguin. George says he sent copies o f his com plaints to other publica­ tions and w ent to lawyers and accountants fo r help — without much satisfaction. He basically says that O w n w o n 't communicate with him, o n ly pays royalties in a grudging condescending fashion, doesn't pay enough considering the books sales and didn’t support George in his tw o drug busts and on ly helped him w ith the Im m i­ gration authorities until the manu­ script was delivered. We rang Peter Owen w ho says George is crazy, that he has had “ thousands” o f pounds in royal­ ties, and yes he didn’ t support George is his tim es o f trouble because George had been so un­ pleasant ( ‘i f hie went to clink, to o bad’ ). O w en added that they had had to edit a lo t o f ‘ drivel’ out o f G eorge’s manuscript, and as a rider he threatened that i f we published G eorge's complaints th ey'd sue. Owen must have made m oney out o f George, so he owes him some tim e and trouble - and i t ’s a publishers’ jo b to cope witn

Just out is N ed Gate, the N orth Kensington Area Paper and it covers issues like the figh t by pupils and parents to rem ove a headmistress in a Ladbroke Grove school, the way Fyffes, those notoriously exploitative banana importers, are blocking redevelop­ ment fo r housing o f British Rail land in N orth Kensington. Tow er block conditions, rent strikes, meter fiddles b y landlords and property speculation. Its trade­ mark is the R oy al Coat o f Arm s with the lion and the unicorn being beaten up by a worker, a black and a schoolkid with lon g hair lookin g on in stoned approval. It's 3p and if you live in the area you 11 see it being sold in the streets. From Australia com es issue 2 o f the Grassroots Express primarily designed to circulate inform ation about the Aquarius Festival in M ay 1973 — an attem pt to pro­ duce an Antipodean W oodstock. Because o f Australia’s isolation most o f the radical impetus comes second hand via books or im por­ ted papers and p eople tend to get sucked in to trips that everyone else in the w o rld abandoned years aqo. But all o f that may be chang­ ing. i f the lem m ing like emigration o f Australians back to their father­ land is to be believed, the election o f a Federal Labour government out there heralds a n ew era o f socialist transformation. Viva el Cuba o f the Pacific! L o n g Live

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I t’s n o t E asy is an anthology o f personal statements by people pissed o f f with society or their place within it. Originally collected by Sue Miles for Hutchinsons, it now seems, fo r reasons which remain obscure , unlikely ever to be published. John Hoyiand’ s contribution, The Long March Through the Bingo Halls, is to o outstanding to lie forgotten in a publisher’s bottom drawer and too lengthy to be printed here in full. Below is a truncated version o f his thesis. Hoyland laments the dichotom y between workers who are aware o f their exploitation but not o f the need to dump capitalist ideology, and intellectuals “ who always have the option o f a free floating ‘ rebellious’ life style which may feel better but doesn’t actually change anything.” This latter group try to free themselves from various aspects o f capitalist ideology but do not see the need to abolish exploitation. H ow can both groups be integrated ?

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The fact that the M ay events in France sparked o f f a critique o f similar com pre­ hensiveness indicates that the hippies were the product o f a new situation in society rather than a historically accidental inspi­ ration. A n analysis o f contem porary Wel­ fare/Consumer capitalism seems to show that serious contradictions have opened up in society at the cultural and ideological level — specifically, at the poin t where people experience the system in their daily lives. I f people are e xp loited at work, they are also oppressed and manipulated outside work. The W elfare” State, w ith its edu­ cational apparatus, its tow n “ planning” , its myriad organs o f social control, inter­ venes in people’ s lives to a degree unprece­ dented in history. A t the same time, con­ sumer capitalism penetrates deeper and deeper into people’s personal and leisure activities, so that hardly an area o f our lives remains which is not in some w ay sub­ ordinated to com m odity consumption and the id eology o f illusions surrounding it. This colonisation o f daily life, this pauperisation o f human relations, this personal and culture oppression, is not on ly experienced by tKe working-class. In fact those who are relatively well-educated, those whose very freedom fro m to il and whose future ro le in society gives them the opp or­ tunity to worry about the quality and meaning o f life under capitalism, are o ften those w h o experience these ideological contradictions in a particularly acute way. If the goal o f life under capitalism is material affluence, then what has capitalism g o t to o ffe r those who already have material afflu ­ ence, in terms o f personal fu lfillm en t and decent human relations? Precious little, many people felt. The counter-culture was a reaction to this situation. Its im portance was its asser­ tion that many o f the problems experienced in the realm o f personal life were not private but general, public problems. Sexuality, the fam ily, urbanism, com m unity, madness, the

use o f leisure, the meaning o f education and work, the whole consumer ethic — these questions were no longer to be resolved on the psychiatrist’s couch, but to be brought out into the open and discussed socially. The right to personal fu lfillm en t became a political demand.

The pleasure-oriented life-style (doing your ow n thing) that accompanied all this was on ly possible because large numbers o f middle-class youth were able to enjoy a leisured existence that was parasitical on the surplus produced b y the workers. As such, it was never a social programme for the vast majority, and when capitalism started to run into serious econom ic d iffi­ culties at the end o f the sixties, the counter­ culture quickly lost the dynamic it had had earlier on. But the fact remains that in the scope o f its preoccupations, in its imagi­ nation and occasional artistic brilliance ( I ’ m thinking particularly o f its music), the counter-culture played a major role in liberating thought in the 60s — a role which any future revolutionary m ovement must take into account o f if it is to succeed. I t ’s m y belief, however, that this role just be discussed strictly in the past. I no longer think that ‘counter-culture’ , ‘under­ ground’, ‘alternative society' and the like are particularly useful terms. T h e collective ideology, the ideas and assumptions that held the different com ponents o f this m ove­ ment together in the 60s have n ow becom e so dispersed and diluted that it makes verv little sense to talk about the Underground as a specific entity any more. ( A large part o f what held the Underground together was a question o f age anyw ay). Granted an im­ portant cultural shift has occurred affecting everybody to a greater o f lesser extent who was born during or after the war. But it now makes more sense to break dow n the separate components o f this shift and to see that they are, in fact, quite diverse and in many cases antagonistic. The picture that emerges, if w e do this, is not a particularly happy one. Apart from certain pockets o f relative m ilitancy — the group o f libertarians w ho took over In k and Frendz, a fe w o f the people working in the field o f avant-guarde art, the voluntary

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One o f the ways in which people have been tied to the status quo in the past has been their acceptance and internalisation o f the puritan work-ethic, with its values o f hard work, dependence on the monogamous nuclear family, abstinence from sex and other form s o f pleasure etc. Born in times o f scarcity w ith the function o f uniting the different social classes behind Britain's Imperial and Capitalist Destiny, this system o f values became totally inapplicable in the consumer society o f the 60s, yet it con­ tinued to deter people fro m demanding more than the cramped life-style that capitalism had traditionally o ffe red them. The youth culture, and its concommitant, the student movement, changed that. Significantly internationalist in character, attacking the absurdity and boredom o f most people’ s work, demanding sexual

freedom and looking fo r alternative living units to the modern fam ily, rejecting capitalism’ s attention to the endless private acquisition o f material goods at the expense o f people’ s biological, personal and com ­ munal needs - in these and many other ways the counter-culture produced a critique o f capitalist ideology which was long-overdue and which opened up n ew vistas o f social change.

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Changing our individual personal and social relations is not a strategy fo r revolution. But equally, revolutionaries w ho put their marx­ ism back on the bookshelf when it comes to daily living have failed to grasp the total­ ity o f the situation w e are confronted by, and the consequent necessity fo r a total res­ ponse to it. For me, then, the most promising charac­ teristic o f the present situation is not on ly the increased militancy o f the working-class and the grow th o f the straight revolutionary left. It is also the parallel grow th o f ideo­ logical agitation — o f agitation that challen­ ges the assumptions on which our society is based and the way in which these assump­ tions are transmitted into the consciousness o f us all, thus anchoring us to this particular form o f society and preventing us from effectively changing it. T o say this, however, is not to give blan­ ket approval to each and every manifestation o f ‘ n ew ’ consciousness wherever it may be found. It's necessary to analyse these d if­ ferent manifestations o f cultural and ideo­ logical rebellion, to try and discriminate between those aspects o f them which really do point in the direction o f social change and those which merely involve a psychic adjustment to the particular characteristics o f capitalism in the 70s. This means attemp­ ting to understand their relation to each other and to political and econom ic develop­ ments.

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social-workers involved in BIT and various information and help agencies around the country - the bulk o f the latter-day hippies are a pretty reactionary bunch, and the ideology they adhere to is quite dangerous. Five years ago the classical nippy was often vociferously anti-political, and many o f his ideas were either so naive, or so individualis­ tic and self-indulgent, as to make most revolutionaries shudder with horror. But his very existence as a being demanding certain types o f love and fun, his rejection of society’s power-and-money-pabbing, was an effective kritant to the system. But now the best of the lessons taught by the hippies have been learned by people who can put them to much better use than the hippies ever could. The underground stressed the importance o f lived daily experience, and correctly attacked left-wingers who pro­ claimed the brotherhood o f man but con­ ducted their affairs in an authoritarian, sanctimonious and insensitive manner. N o w this mantle - the connection between per­ sonal and political life — has been taken over by Women's Liberation, who are daily putting it into practice without the sexist garbage that accompanied it before. And many sections o f the straight left have absorbed the more progressive ideas of the hippies and are inflecting their ow n ideology accordingly. A nd where does this leave the hippies? For the most part, still wittering on about yooving and getting it together, but now in the most vacuous, sentimental and depoliticising way. Hippy ideology has become the escape valve for thousands o f young people who want some kind of justification for sitting on their arses doing nothing, while convincing themselves that thek very inac­ tivity makes them the purest revohittonaries o f all. T o fuck, smoke dope and listen to music nowadays is no more radical than having a cup o f tea, and the fact that a dash o f buddhism or home-made bread may be thrown in doesn’t alter the basic social irrelevance o f the whole business. The hippies, in one sense, were always in the front Une o f the very consumer capital­ ism they despised. They were mental colon­ ists opening up new markets for the whixikid entrepreneurs. Sex, music, the parapher­ nalia o f pleasure surrounding dope-taking all these invited flourishing new areas of commerce for a society that was only too to find ways o f selling itself to its youth. Now , with the mere radical aspects o f their ideology little mere than platitudes, the hippies and the thousands o f young middle-class kids who ape their ideas in a more diluted form, are simply a new type o f consumer, playing their games in a cosy little adventure playground specially set aside for them by the system. The best rode festivals were always mounted by the capitalists anyway! (Note: Exception ‘Glastonbury’-T y p e setter.) It's time that these people retain an anti­ authoritarianism, a refusal to be regimented, which will always give the system a few headaches. It’s true, also, that life ought to be more fun, and one w ay o f bringing that about is to have fun yourself. But fun, or being yourself, or feeding your head, as a social philosophy is bankrupt A nd in a rotten society your fun will always be tain­ ted anyway. That’s partly why the step from Woodstock to Altamont, from Leary to Manson, or for that matter from Hair to Jesus Christ Superstar, will always be a short one when there is no attempt to understand how society works and no realistic effort to change it.

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The counter-culture, as a primarily cul­ tural phenomenon, was always incapable o f transforming society in the direction it wished. That can only happen when the ideas o f the counter-culture become inte­ grated into a revolutionary social philosophy which in my opinion must be marxist, Le. based on a scientific assessment o f the actual nature o f the society w e live in.

In one respect particularly the structural limitations o f the counter-culture have been starkly revealed, and that is in the area o f sex. The breakdown of capitalism’s ideo­ logical control-structures in the last few years has led to an enormous increase in fucking. But in spite o f this happy develop­ ment w e are nowhere near a state that could be called sexual liberation. Relationships between boys and girls are still largely defined by the old pattern o f male domin­ ation and female submission. Sexual stereo­ typing still denies gkls the fully independent and equal life that would make companion­ ship a reality. Many o f us, if not all, still carry with us the hang-ups and inadequacies that we have inherited fi from our parents and their culture. And, most particularly, we still have very little idea what to do afterwards. We don’t know how to carry relationships through into middle and old age without the alternatives o f miserable bust-ups g* frus­ trated boredom. We still have very little idea o f how to bring up children without falling into the claustrophobic privacy o f the nuclear family, a privacy that is deeply damaging to both parents and children. Experiments in this area are only just starting. Here, as in so many areas, change can only be partial until capitalist society itself is overthrown, and sockl pressures lead out­ wards into the community instead o f in­ wards into the family and home. So long as society is based on private property, there can be little hope of breaking down the present family and sexual structure except in a very piecemeal way. The existence of a woman's liberation movement indicates, however, that this process will take place, both before and after the revolution. This movement, probably the most crucial single new poli­ tical development o f our times, has such profound implications that they are diffi­ cult to (pasp. Its immediate aim is the des­ truction o f sexism, o f the domination and oppression o f women by men. But sexism, up until now, has been the code through which men and women communicate with each other. It has been the yardstick by which men and women define themselves as different kinds o f people. As it is attacked and rejected, our most personal, most basic assumptions about ourselves becbme open to question. What were previously com­ pletely private aspects o f our lives are suddenly thrust into the political arena. The struggle against sexism is not only a struggle against some o f the key institu­ tions o f our society, such as the traditional family, it is also a struggle against the for­ mation o f the human psyche over thousands of years. Consequently, if women are succesful in their fight for real self-determination, nearly all human relationships must change in ways that are virtually impossible to imagine. A s far as sexual relations are con­ cerned, what will they be like when they are freed o f sexual stereotyping? What will the sexual relations demanded by a socialist society be Uke? We cannot know the answer to these questions, any more than we can know what other social relations will be like when women have an equal, independent role in the family and at work. N o r is it necessary to know, since women's liberation is a response to the intolerable relations that exist now, under capitalism. These relations must be changed, and this sufficient pou nds for action. Yet w e can speculate that wom en’s liberation and gay liberation point to w v d s a future so different from our own world that it is almost unrecognisable: a future where our sexual being is untrammelled by the artificial conventions and inhibitions of today, where physical love can be a natural extension o f any friendship between people o f the opposite sex and people o f the same sax, where the monogamous family as w e know it no longer casta its claustrophobic

shadow across all human reli But the resistance to the birth o f this world will be immense, and the struggle between those w ho want it and those who dread it will be one o f the most noticeable features o f the years ahead o f us. A nd the struggle for sexual liberation, although tt is not the same as the struggle for social revolution, will nevertheless work in prac­ tice in the same direction. Capitalist society, which inevitably promotes authoritarian and sexist relationships, which cannot exist without the economic and ideological oppression o f women (and children), is the main obstacle to die creation o f a world of sexual equality. So those who want to end

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will be thrown up in an actual revolutionary situation. Nor can such a theory simply be thought out on paper. It will develop out o f the real struggles that people are engaged in, ranging from militancy in the factories to the fight against the nuclear family, and taking in a whole lot o f other struggles on the way. At every stage it will have to be tested against the reality o f the people's lives - the kind of things they want from life and the social institutions that organise their lives. It should be obvious from all this that while I think there are real (pounds for opti­ mism, I do not think that the revolution in Britain is going to be a straightforward busi­ ness, that it’s all a question o f time”. The main agent o f the revolution is the workingclass, but the working-class is not revolu­ tionary. That fact alone means that the struggle ahead is going to be a long one. H ie revolution isn't there, waiting to be found by somebody. The revolution has got to be made, and this means a lot of very hard work.

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exploitation. In other words, there is a correspondence between productive rela­ tions and personal relations, though this correspondence is a complex and shifting one, and it is not one which I could pretend to understand at all clearly. In the same way, thore i* a whole range o f other activities and struggles which fall somewhere between these two polarities. In the sphere o f culture, in our understanding o f mental illness, in our attitude towards the upbringing o f chil­ dren, in our relationship to the environment, on the question o f town-planning and housing, in the fight against imperialism, — in the communities we live in — in all these areas the old concepts are being challenged, and people are looking for new and different ways o f conducting things. Above all in Education - apart from the family, the main instrument for conditioning people to capita­ list society - both teachers, parents and children are increasingly dissatisfied with the present system. If it was merely a question o f adding these things up collectively, it would be possible to state that we are wita total assault on capitalist society. But things are not so simple. For a start, not all these struggles are equally advanced. N ot do they yet involve very large numbers o f people. Millions remain untouched by any o f them. Clearly, there is a great deal of work to be done. A nd in particular it is a mistake to think that all this activity neces­ sarily leads in the same direction, that there is a structural common denominator to it all. In every sphere there are contradictory interests, as well as countless divergent paths which could be taken. What is lacking, in fact, is any kind o f theoretical coherence embracing all the diverse elements o f this ferment, and capable o f representing them in a strategic assault on the system. It seems to me that one o f the most important tasks o f the immediate future is to analyse these different areas o f activity and make connections between them — to see where they point towards basic social change, where they are tangential or even hostile 1 i ti to such a change, and where they are dependent on such a change in order to be realised. Only by doing this work — by making these connections in a very specific way and by understanding the relationship o f each of these to the whole can we begin to construct an intonated theory o f social change in Britain: a theory which starts with the strategic mission of the working-class and its allies to overthrow the capitalist state, and proceeds outwards to a comprehensive system o f liberated social relations in this country. Only when armed with such an integrated theory can we expect our actions to work increasingly in the direction o f the fundamental social change we desire. A nd only when armed with a theory o f this comprehensive nature can w e be sure that the revolution in Britain will not degenerate into the bureaucratic and authoritarian socialism o f the USSR. “ A theory” — that sounds something very static and cerebral, like some kind of mechanical formula that will open the door to revolution by magic. But thu is not what I mean. Marxists have traditionally talked about "Unevenness o f development" between dif­ ferent nations, indicating that a poor Latin American country will require different revolutionary tactics and organisation to a rich European country. But it is also true also fight to end essfcm. And in the same way, that there is unevenness o f development whole complex o f authoritarian within nations. Economic, political and and dependant attitude* o f which sexismideological developments do not necessarily is a part w ork to hold people back from run parallel to each other, revolutionaries fighting to change the social order, those may need to pay particular attention to one who wish to end class oppression must also rather than another at different times. The fight to end sexual oppression. theory I am talking about is the under­ standing and ability to handle this uneven­ ness o f development, to keep pace with the exigencies o f the situation. It is not a received understanding o f the world, but rather an ongoing practice. A nd no theory, The struggle for liberated personal relation­ no matter how integrated, can ever be com­ •hip* com; ships complements and reinforce* the plete. It will never be possible to anticipate struggle o f the working-class to abolish the complexity and diversity o f forms that

Vicious Society This is what i believe must be done if the contradictory and vicious society w e live in is to be abolished, and a new and happf one is to be created in its place. It is ac dantly clear to me that the process has already started, and that in the years ahead of us we will see it developing and accel­ erating. But I should fool no-one into thinking that there is any guarantee of immediate success as it gains momentum. A lot o f the advantages Ue with the other side. It is easy for them to capitalise on the legacy left in people's minds by hundreds o f years o f guilt, moralism, and dependence on authority. A nd the overt manipulation o f consciousness is controlled b y them, not us. It is their world we see reflected in advertisements, in films and newspapers, in schools and courts. Their view of the world is constantly reproduced and re­ affirmed. Ours has to be fought for, every inch, and we can only win if our view constantly accords more closely with reality than theirs. What is more, there is no guarantee that an economic and political crisis, with its resulting bitterness and insecurity, will cause the pendulum to swing more to the left than to the right In a time of crisis the voices calling for pulling together’ and ‘strong government’ are often those that are loudest and most listened to. Already, repression is visibly on the increase, and it has the tacit support o f most o f the popu­ lation. The present situation is a time o f deci­ sion, a tune to work things out and make up our minds, a time to fight for a better world. Yet amidst all this necessity to think and fight, one last danger remains. It is that as we dedicate ourselves to politics and make our revolution, the beauties and wonders o f life will slip unnoticed through our fingers. W e can be deformed by our very dedication to making life more worth­ while, so that we end up disqualifying our­ selves from inheriting the world we are fighting for. That is another reason why, for me, politics must include the attempt to improve our immediate, personal life situation right now, why it must bring us into a fuller and richer relationship to living, rather than isolating us in a particularised and humourless struggle that will only reach its fulfillment to be realised tomorrow. So, having argued all along for theoreti­ cal coherence and intepation, I would lika to finish with these words o f Adrian Mit­ chell’s. Maybe they’re coherent, maybe they’re completely contradictory. Either I like them: My head socialist My heart anarchist My eyes pacifist M y blood revolutionary.

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The Story Of Abdul ben Kassem A d ru n k en tale f r o m th e d a ys o f th e ro a rin g tw e n tie s in o ld M o r o c c o . Th e fo llo w in g is ex tra cted fr o m a featu re article in T h e Marrakesh Express, June 4, 1928, and describes the “ h orrific level o f villa in y ” discovered t o be flourishing in the local p olice fo rce. (Tran slated by R on ald Ramsden, w h o cam e across this e d itio n o f th e newspaper w hile travelling in M o ro cco . T h e language has been fre e ly u pdated.) Abdul ben Kassem was a highly respected senior o ffic er o f the Im perial Marrakesh vice squad. On certain matters o f police policy he dealt directly with the King and the day b efore the enormous scandal involving him was publicly admitted, he was awarded an exem plary conduct medal fo r tw enty years o f devoted service to the M oroccan Constabulary. His task was to keep the illegal importation, sale and consumption o f alcohol to a tolerable level. A couple o f years earlier, Abdul's name had cropped up in connection with allegations that vast quantities o f alcohol had been planted' on innocent business men and, more seriously, that he himself was involved with the importation o f alcohol from Dublin, which was marketed by him, through a network o f police ‘ inform ers’. These allegations o f A b d u l’s own involvem ent with the alcohol traffic came to light at a cele­ brated trial. It seems that an inde­ pendent unit of.M oroccan cus­ toms agents had been undertaking investigations on their ow n behalf and had unearthed indisputable links between Abdul and the nefarious alcohol trade. At the trial, Abdul claimed that o f course he was present to take delivery o f an illegal supply o f Danish lager because he and his informers were trying to trace the source o f supply. N o t on ly had the customs men ruined any chances o f uncovering Mr Big, but their violent accusations o f misconduct against him, were bound to lower the high esteem in which the vice squad was held in Marrakesh, and, indeed, throughout the entire country. Partly as a result o f this trial and a series o f supportive allega­ tions made by m inority groups, an investigation was held into the activities o f Abdul, led by Sheik Mahmoud, from a provincial police brigade on the other side o f the Atlas Mountains. For M orocco at that time, Mahmoud was an unusual police­ man. He was honest. A t the end o f his extensive enquiries he concluded that indeed Abdul as well as practically everyone in his entire squad was guilty o f the grossest involvem ent in the whole traffic throughout several Arab countries. The Palace studied Sheik Mahmoud’s report and then made

a statement. N o action was to be taken. Sheik Mahmoud was furious. He regarded the evidence contained in his report as incontro vertible. He threatened to tell the w orld o f his discoveries. The Palace replied that he had tw o choices. Either he could be shot or he could retire gracefully and accept a commendation. Sheik Mahmoud understandably chose the latter course. Meanwhile, a top Palace official, who was greatly concerned at the effect the alcohol ban was having on young Moroccans, studied the report. He im m ediately called for its implem entation and for charges to be brought against Abdul. This Palace o ffic ia l was also threatened w ith execution (a cruder version o f our O fficial Secrets A c t), but to no avail. This o fficial happened to have pow erful friends and anyw ay he could still have kicked up a stink before anyone w ould have had tim e to stop him. Confusion reigned. The loyal o ffic ia l fell sick from w orry and no-one knew what to do. By this time, Abdul and his men were getting nervous. They each began to plan their excuses, .» which actually means blaming someone else. So, quite suddenly, [ \ several senior police officers were |b discovered w ith such things as crates o f Guinness and magnums o f champagne in their locker rooms. We were fram ed,” they yelled, as they were dragged o ff to prison. Meanwhile another mismanaged trial o f captured alcohol drinkers to o k place and again it was alleged (hat the police evidence was perjured and that none other than Abdul himself

was once m ore deeply implicated. Another enquiry into A b d u l’ s vice squad was undertaken. Then the Asian com m unity decided to go on strike. This com munity had traditionally handled all supplies o f hard liquor passing through M orocco. Am idst the panic and confusion mounting in A b d u l’s squad, an Oriental whisky dealer was sent to gaol. This v io ­ lates a long-standing agreement between the V ice Brigade and traditional hard liquor traders. Meanwhile, the top Palace o fficial recovered from his illness and was o ffered a deal. I f he kept his mouth shut he w ou ld be put in charge o f a new nationally co-ordinated anti-alcohol squad. He agreed. Unfortunately, other senior police, who resented the way the Moroccan Police force was being overhauled by an upstart commissioner, refused to work with him. Finally, the Palace caved in and launched a prosecution against Abdul and a handful o f offenders. O f course there were many other factors involved in the decision to prosecute Abdul. Some newspapers and privately circulated pamphlets, claimed to have unanswerable evidence o f conspiracies between Abdul and criminal smuggling gangs. Further, sections o f overseas police forces had becom e so enraged by the level o f corruption in A b d u l’s department, that they had set up

independent investigatory units o f their own, refusing even to associate with the Moroccan police. Most observers at the time stated that Abdul was quite successful at organising the hard liquor trade throughout M orocco and even in handling exports to foreign countries. Apparen tly he overstepped himself when he entered the softer, less addictive beers and wines market, drinks which were becom ing increasingly popular am ong the young, and thus profitable. In his greed to control this expanding market Abdul made a number o f silly mistakes. It is also believed that o f a total number o f men under his command (betw een 80 and 90) on ly about a dozen were com pletely innocent o f involve­ ment with the alcohol traffic. Translator's N ote: I was unable to locate subsequent editions o f the Marrakesh Express which would have contained details o f the fate o f A b d u l ben Kassem and his colleagues. Apart from presuming the Marrakesh p olice force was cleaned up as much as possible, I am n o t able to o ffe r any m ore in form a tion as to the consequences o f the trials o f Abdul. There was some suggestion at the tim e to review the circu m stances o f those gaoled by Abdul and his vice squad, but little is thought to have com e o f it.

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AmnestyFor DrugOffenders he former head o f Scotland' Yard's drug squad, Det Chief Inspector Victor Kellaher, has finally been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course o f justice. Four other former members o f the drug squad have been similarly charged. These four officers face additional allegations o f perjury. All the summonses are returnable on January 22nd. In addition, a warrant dealing with the same alleged offences was issued against former Det Ser geant Norman Clement Pilcher, who left the Metropolitan Police in July. Pilcher was picked up in November when he landed in Australia.

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f former drugs chief, Victor Kellaher, is convicted of any o f the charges against him, then OZ makes the following demands. The urgency of these demands will be under lined with any (and each) conviction o f Kellaher's former colleagues.

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OZ MAKES THESE DEMANDS lf Victor Kellaher is convicted, then Oz demands the immediate release o f any "drug offender' now in gaol as a result ofallegations made by any member o f the Scotland Yard’s drug squad during the period in which Kellaher was it’s head.

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_ All convictions against persons who pleaded not guilty to charges brought by the drug squad, during the period in which Kellaher was it’s head, are to be immediately quashed.

Upon the conviction o f any other former member o f the drugs squad, then immediate pardons are to be granted to any persons convicted by the evidence o f the former drugs squad member. Remember, many o f those convicted o f posessing dangerous drugs, alleged at the time o f their arrests, that they had been planted.NOW IS TH E TIM E T O SET T H E IR RECO RD S S T R A IG H T .

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AR E YO U SICK OF P A Y IN G R EN T TO SOME TH IEVING BASTARD WHO WON’T L IF T A FIN G E R IN RETURN? M AYBE EVEN WORSE, YO U H A V E N ’T GOT ANYW H ERE TO LIV E A T A LL. IF SO, STOP LO O KIN G FOR A MOMENT READ THE DOS A N D DON’ TS OF SQ U ATTIN G BELOW, AND GET YO U RSELF A HOME BEFORE SPRING.

In London, and all over the coun­ try, there are many thousands o f houses standing empty. Mostly they’re gonna be knocked down. Councils, Landlords, speculators, all have their greedy eyes on the land on which old houses stand — land which they feel could be 'developed' much more profitably. In all the big city centres, whole neighbourhoods are being cleared to make way for offices, multi­ storey car parks, banks and shop­ ping centres. Pity about the people o f course, but then that’s life, you've got to take the rough with the smooth etc. Result: millions o f people living in bad conditions, thousands more actually homeless. The rest shipped out to inhuman sky rise flats in the suburbs (at sky rise rents). Squat­ ting means fighting back against this state o f affairs. It means getting a place with your friends where you can live how you want FREE.

Squatting means saying to councils and Landlords, thank you very much, now go fuck yourself, we can look after our own affairs! Looking F or a Home? Take a look around the area where you want to live. Find out about redevelopment plans for the neigh­ bourhood (the local library should have copies). There’s almost always empty houses in Redevelopment areas; because o f bureaucratic delay in getting started, many houses stand empty for years. Other squat­ ters will also tell you where to look, and there are groups well spread out all over London. If all else fails ask at the Tow n Hall, Planning Dept. They have to tell you most o f what you will want to know, but have a good story handy. If you’ve got your eye on a house, ring the Planning Dept, and find out if it’s Council owned or privately owned. Avoid private places if you want a long term home. Private Landlords w on’t

hesitate to act against anybody who stands in the way o f them and their loot, they’ll boot you out as quickly as they can. It’ s not quite t i« :ame with the Council, they’re more vulnerable — after all they’re supposed to be housing people, not throwing them out onto the streets at the first opportunity. Also, avoid empty houses with LEB OFF, GAS O FF painted on the wall, or a new tarmac patch outside. This usually means that all the services have been cut o ff for good. “ I walked in, didn’t I ? " Getting in to the house o f your choice isn’t quite the same as getting the keys o ff the Estate Agent. It's more exciting than that, but you probably won’t have to bother with the mask and the black and white hooped sweater since it’ s usually possible to find an open window, a door that isn’t shut properly or a lock that can be slipped. Remember that if you wreck anything when entering you may be charged with Criminal

Damage. If the house has been tinned up with corrugated iron, you’ ll need a crowbar and that can make a lot o f noise.. .. As an alternative estate agent, you’ ll need torch, candles (fo r night work), light bulb, palette knife for lifting latches — and always have a lock barrel screw driver in case you like the look o f a place you can’t move into immediately. Check out the services before making a final decision about moving e.g.: Do the taps work? If not, follo w the pipes to find the stop-cock. Make sure the water pipes haven’t been ripped out (o f course you can replace them your­ self). Electricity: if the power doesn’t switch on, check the main fuses and the meter (if it hasn’t been taken out already). I f they’re missing or beyond salvage, the Electricity Board should renew them. The First Thing To D o When Y o u ’ve Chosen Your House Is Change The Lock: Yale lock barrels cost about £1.75p. Unscrew the back o f the old lock from inside — there are usually three screws. Take it off, then pull out the old barrel from the front. Put the new barrel in the hole in the door and screw the back o f the old lock on again. After that it’ s: Welcome to your new home !

Now, Now, Now, What's Go in' On 'Ere Then? It is possible that your househunting might be disturbed by the arrival o f the blue meanies, whereupon instead o f freaking or running away, just say you are squatting and not burgling the place. Insist that you are living

Up Against The Law Despite what a lot o f people think, S Q U A T T IN G IS N O T IL L E G A L .. . provided you do it properly. Don't be fooled by letters, visits from the Council or anyone else telling you that you are acting criminally. Squatters are trespassers, that’s all, and despite what the signs say trespassers cannot be prosecuted. Trespass is not a criminal offence. IT IS A C IV IL M A T T E R BETWEEN TWO P R IV A T E PARTIES. The wronged person can take action against the trespasser through the civil courts, but can proceed in no other way. In other words they have to get a court order before they can get you out. Just for once the Law can be made to work for you if you push hard enough. In your new home you have the same rights (to protec­ tion o f your house and person) as any other householder. (Y o u will also be expected to pay rates). O f course, while there is no law against squatting, there are plenty o f laws that the authorities can use against you if you give them enough reason. (Just like the possibility o f being charged with criminal damage on entering). Warrants can be obtained to investi­ gate whether you've received stolen goods or are consuming dangerous

drugs etc etc. But basically you’re OK, and the better you get on with the neighbours and the people around you, the more ok you are. You keep a'knockin' but you can't com e in It’ s as difficult for the owners to enter your home as it is for them to get you out. In the box below is part o f a leaflet put out recently by a group o f squatters to deter over-enthusiastic bouncers.

L iftin g Heavy weights over Short distances An important part o f squatting is learning what makes houses work and how to fix them up. Instead o f hiring plumbers, electricians and people to do the work for them, squatters learn to do things for themselves and pass on their various skills to each other. Fixing a pipe can be a lot more difficult than writing an article on squatting for O Z ... other squatters will probably help you here. And there's also an excellent Squatters' Handbook filled with lots o f practical infor­ mation on gas, water, electrical fittings available from 11 Hemingford St., London N .I. .

There are also people like the ever­ growing squatter/freak community around the Prince o f Wales Crescent area o f Camden, N.W.5. Some 280 people live there, 30% o f them graduates living on an average income o f £7 a week each. They have organised the Camden Recyc­ led Housing Association, 19 Vicars Rd, N.W.5, and seem to be involved in just doing their thing and being free from money hassles etc. So if you’re a Recycled Hippy and just want to do your thing maybe you should get in touch with them. Then there's groups o f claimants, unsupported mothers, women in North London, especially in Hack­ ney and Islington. Hackney and Is­ lington squatters take a more active part in the struggles o f the working class communities in which they live. For example squatters help in the production o f neighbourhood newspapers like the Hackney Gutter Press and the Islington G utter P ress. |Hackney Squatters' Union, c/o Centreprise, 34 Dalston Lane, E.8. Islington Squatters, c/o 11 Hemingford Rd., N.I.|

Squatting Movement There’s all different kinds o f people squatting at the moment. There are Family Squatting groups who arrange for temporary homes for homeless families from the Council and charge a small rent. Some people say that Family Squatting Associations are as bad as the Council (Fam ily Squatting Advisory Service, 44 Nelson Square, London SEl.Tel:928 9521.

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there — “ It's got nothing to do with the police, it's a civil matter between me and the landlord." If the police realise what’ s happening and that you aren’ t casing the joint they should leave, though you have to be firm to get your rights, and ignore all the stuff about “ it's people like you that's bringing the country to its knees" etc. The more bedding and luggage you have with you the better.

As well as London squatting seems to have spread to other cities in England. In Oxford, for example, 27 squats have been established since last June. And o f course in places like Amsterdam squatting has been for a long time a permanent feature in the struggle o f people living in the big cities against the developers and in the fight for more and better houses for every­ body and community control o f neighbourhoods.

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This property has been occupied by squatters. We are in possession and we intend to stay. If you dispute our right to do so, w e are prepared to discuss the matter, but if you want to get us out, think twice and take advice before you act, or you may find yourself facing serious charges. You May N ot Evict Us Forcibly. The Statute o f Forcible Entry A ct 1381 states " ... N one from hence­ forth make any entry into any lands and tenements but in case where entry is given by law: and in such case not with strong hand nor with multitude o f people, but only on peaceable and easy manner. And if any man from hence forth do to the contrary and thereof be duly convict, he shall be punished by imprisonment... " Yes, i t is an old statute, but it is still in existence. In fact it has been restated on a number o f occasions (1391, 1429, 1588, 1623) and has been used at least twice in recent years. So if you think you have the right to evict us forcibly then think again. The Act was designed to stop this — because if you have a just claim to possession o f the property, then you can go through the courts to get your land back, but you must not attempt an immediate eviction. YO U W ILL BE C O M M ITTING A C R IM IN A L OFFENCE IF YO U E VICT US FO R CIBLY. "T h e Forcible Entry Acts ... make

a landlord who takes forcible posses­ sion o f the premises liable criminally...” IT IS NO DEFENCE T H A T Y O U A R E E N TITLE D TO POSSESSION In Halsbury’ s Laws o f England 3rd Ed. V ol 10, p. 592 para 1103 " I t is not defence to a person who has forcibly entered on land in posses­ sion o f another that he was entitled to possession or had a legal right o f entry.” So heed Lord Salmon’ s remarks in the Court o f Appeal on 12.3.68: "T h e Storm may enter, The Rain may enter, but the King o f England may not enter . . ( o r ) .. dare cross the Threshold. " A few years ago one owner did try to enter and ‘cross the threshold’. A few words on what happened then might be o f interest to you. Y o u ’ll maybe remember the pitched battles between squatters and bailiffs in Ilford in June 1969. That was when Redbridge Council employed a firm o f 'professional bailiffs’ under the leadership o f a Mr Barry Quartermaim to evict

squatters without a court order. What you may not know is the out­ come o f those events. The police did nothing — so the squatters acted. They laid information before Barking Magistrate’ s court seeking summonses against Mr Quartermaim alleging riotous assembly and forcible entry. When the magistrates initially refused to grant summonses, the squatters took the matter to Queens Bench Dvisional Court and obtained an order o f Mandamus, compelling the Justices to do their job properly. The final outcome was that Mr Quartermaim ended up at the Old Bailey where he pleaded guilty to causing an affray. In return for this plea no evidence was offered on the other charges — a common practice. That is what happened to the last person who tried to evict squatters forcibly without a court order. Do you want it to happen to you? SO D O N ’T T R Y TO E V IC T US W ITH O U T A C O U R T O RDER OR WE W IL L PROSECUTE YOU.

Squatters in Islington, Camden and Hackney are all fighting, or have already fought, eviction orders served on them by their local councils. A banner stretched along a block o f occupied houses in Caledonian Rd, Islington: STOP M AK IN G S Q U ATTER S SCAPE­ GOATS F O R CO U NCIL INCOM ­ PETENCE IN HOUSING! Cally Rd squatters, who have been in occupation for nearly six months, expect to go to court at the time this issue appears. T h ey’ve been getting involved in the com­ munity in their neighbourhood, from meetings about housing to Jumble Sales, a community press, and a free shop. In Camden the tactic has been to organise the 700-1,000 squat­ ters in the borough at street level into Street Committees, which are loosely federated into a union for the purpose o f negotiations with the council. One Camden MP, Stallard, and some o f the ‘le ft’ councillors are sympathetic, but the eviction orders continue... But in Hackney we won and they lost. Early last autumn squatters won court actions against both the Council and 2nd A ctel Housing Association. Against the Council the Judge ruled that the bureaucrats hadn t shown good enough reason why they needed the houses immedi­ ately. The 2nd Actel Housing Association's case failed because in the opinion o f the judge, they hadn’t made “ every reasonable effort to get the names o f every person in occupation in the five houses involved. ’ Let your mind run riot.....

A special O Z report on the failure o f

Most people are aware that Some­ thing pretty extraordinary was going on inside, British prisons this summer. I t ’s not by any means the first tim e that prisoners have protested against conditions as long as prisons have existed, their m onotony has been punctuated by demonstrations, some non­ violent, others a little rougher. What made last summer’s dem on­ strations without precedent was the co-ordination and publicity which accompanied them. This was the work o f a rather strange organisation called PRO P Preservation o f the Rights O f Prisoners, led by form er top safeblower Dick Pooley. I say strange because the w hole thing was built up on two illusions, which com pletely hoodwinked press and public alike. Even now, few people, if any, not closely involved with the organisation, know what really happened last summer. The first illusion was that PRO P was involved in organising A L L the demonstrations last summer. Demonstrations had been happening with greater frequency from the beginning o f the year. In April, for example, the Hom e O ffic e admitted to two large protests at Albany involving 378 men. P R O P certainly did plan sit ins inside, but it ’s role was as the co-ordinator gather than the initiator o f protest. P R O P ’s effectiveness as publicist o f events inside is self-evident. For the first time, the public were made aware o f what really goes on inside Her M ajesty’s prisons; they could no longer lock a man away and forget him. P R O P had been o fficially launched on May 12th, just after the four sit-downs in Brixton, and although in touch with the ‘leaders' inside, did not “ arrange" the protests to herald the arrival o f the organisation, as was claimed at the time. The second illusion concerned the actual size o f PROP. Figures quoted by the Press proclaimed over 500 members after four weeks, and nearly 1,000 by the tim e o f the national strike. The national strike in August was certainly P R O P ’» greatest achieve­ ment? Co-ordination was done skilfully, and the image o f a mas­ sive organisation, backed by millionaires, was accepted by the media. But success went to the heads o f the organisers, particu­ larly to the head o f Douglas Cur­ tis, then P R O P '* Press O fficer, who threatened a walk out from ‘open’ prisons. This was to prove the singularly most important mistake made by PRO P. It frigh­ tened the Prison O fficers into threatening strike action if “ disci­ pline and good order” were not re-established in prisons, and this united the media against PROP, a media which had been stunned both by the number o f demo's and by the validity o f the claims

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Preservation o f the Rights o f Prisoners.

o f the prisoners. U p ^ o Curtis’s wild statement no paper had ridi­ culed the Statement o f Intent and Charter O f Rights. A fte r it, the media seized the chance^o divert attention away from prison con ditions and scream for “ Law and O rder” to be restored. Curtis's action was sym pto­ matic o f what was happening within PROP. The tw o main organisers had com e to believe that the illusions were, in fact, reality; they had fallen pre/ to their own creation. They began to struggle for personal media coverage and this c on flict reflec­ ted badly on the organisation. The schemes and strategies which had been drawn up w ere never put into effect, because to o much tim e was being spent indulging in a personal feud. This finally came to a head during the week o f Albany and the ro o fto p protest. A t that time, Curtis was on his holidays, sailing o ff the cost o f Gibralter and M orocco. Pooley was carried away by events, and started calling for a three-day national strike. He seemed to believe that because banners were waving from the windows and rooftops o f less than 20 prisons, P R O P con trolled the penal system. It was certainly very active, and if Dick had kept his head things might have been a lot different. As it was, Dick's call for a three-day strike had to be repeatedly denied by Mike Fitzgerald, a Cambridge student w ho took over as Press O fficer in Curtis’s absence. This discord was used to further undermine PRO P's claims.

Forty-eight hours after his touchdown at Heathrow, Curtis had split from PROP, and pro­ ceded to take out bankruptcy proceedings against it. P ooley was seen as irresponsible and without much backing, and P R O P was unable to raise any protest when vicious disciplinary action was taken against over 1,700 men, some o f whom lost up to tw o years' remission. Unfortunately, Dick still believes that P R O P has massive support inside. On 29th September he to ld an interviewer: “ In Gartree, fo r example, we have 100% support, and when we call fo r a sit-down they do it. But there are people in there w ho'd burn the place down.. L u ck ily in Gartree there are responsible blokes behind us, who will n ot let the violen t element get ou t o f hand....." (Peace News) H o w h o llow those words ring now! P R O P ’s big problem was that because many o f those involved had joined out o f friendship with Dick, they took up a stance o f personal lo yalty rather than one o f com m itm ent to a set o f ideas and methods. P R O P was unable, therefore, to make the necessary transition from charisma to dem o­ cracy, )n d Dick P ooley remains the self-appointed National Organ­ iser. Many people w h o sympathise w ith the ideas refuse to join this “ one-man band” and one can hardly blame them. F o llow in g the recent Human Rights Conference in London, at which a law-Lord suggested that

judges could refuse to send any­ body else to prison until condi­ tions were improved, and Labour Lord Gardener proposed a Prison­ ers’ Charter o f Rights, Dick P ooley decided PR O P had won. He failed to see that this was a ploy opera­ ted by the Established Opposition to defuse the still tense situation. Dick announced that P R O P had join ed the ranks o f reform ism rather than revolutionary radical change. It is very doubtful if any prisoners still support PRO P. At no one tim e did a quarter o f them unite behind the PR O P banner. The movement was on ly begin ning, when the leader thought it had ended, its task com pleted. What is needed now is an injection o f new blood, a gathering together o f people com m itted to PRO P's ideas rather than to its leader. Charisma has served its purpose. What is required is an affirm ation o f support from people outside for the prisoners inside. One o f P R O P ’s biggest failures was that o f being unable to mobilise large demonstrations outside the prisons, (A t Gartree on August 4th, less than 20 people turned up. At Brixton in May, five arrived with ten placards). As it becomes apparent to the men inside that support is o ffered outside to prevent the savage disciplinary reactions o f Septem­ ber going on unheeded again, so solidarity in prisons will begin to build, and the British prisoners movement will establish itself as a strong, coherent and consistent force which will seek to make the real criminals in this society pay for their crimes,

Jackson 8 accounts o f h o w three girls had set about a single policeman, P C MacKay. T h e police version was that he had been attacked whilst in the line o f his duty; Alison Cunningham had obstructed the footpath, and then assaulted him. Anita then joined in fro m the back, while Alison con­ tinued by giving him hell in the groin. Finally, Cecille Palmer de­ cided she might as w ell get a piece afterwards, all three girls were taken o f the action, and started “ throwing to Paddington Green Police Station. punches” at the unfortunate P C One o f the people who worked MacKay. Anita and Alison were in the Churchill Hotel, a coloured fined £5 and £7, respectively, and chef, had seen it all, and came out Cecille's case was referred to a to one o f the girls’ friends, and said Juvenile Court. that if they saw him a little later, Both girls le ft their jobs before he w ould arrange to speak as a w it­ they could be sacked. (B o th Alison ness for them. Before they could and Anita worked at the H ilton get any further, his boss came out Hotel, which is renow ned fo r its and told him to get back. He tried tight security requirements from to stay out for as long as he could, employees, tight even by Central but the police kept him separate London standards) fro m the girls, and eventually he A ll this to o k place against a had to go inside. background o f press ravings about “ W eeny Boppers” riots, and this Back at Paddington Green story was reported in that vein. In Station, things d idn’t get much spite o f all the press hysteria, the better; the girls were kept in the

We are used to the phenomenon of the teenybopper and the hysteria which accompanies the arrivals, departures and con­ certs of the idols - there is screaming, scuffling, pant wetting, sweaty shoving, an irritated but fairly tolerant contingent of controlling police. Everyone works off their hysteria somehow, and most of the fans have a good time. No-one gets hurt or arrested. But what happens if the Superstars are The Jackson Five, and the teenyboppers are black? On Tuesday Novem ber 14, the Eve­ ning Standard ran the follow in g genius o f a news item: three teen­ age girls waiting fo r the Osmond Brothers at the back entrance o f their hotel, had beaten up a police­ man guarding the entrance. V ery strong teenage girls, it seemed at that — they had managed to sand­ wich beating up the policeman between preventing cars from leaving the hotel and obstructing the highway. The girls pleaded guilty in court, and tw o o f them were fined £7 and £5, respectively, w ith the third being referred to a Juvenile Court for sentence. T h e Magistrate had concluded the case with " I t does not help matters when vicious little girls like you attack police officers and put them in hospital.” It sounded like an excerpt from M onty Python, (remember H ell’ s Grannies?). N o w le t’s leave the Standard, and have a lo o k at the truth. Alison Cunningham and Anita Ekperigin were tw o o f a group o f about 12 black girls who went dow n to the Churchill H otel in their lunch break to try and catch a glimpse o f the Jackson 5. Both the Osmonds and the Jacksons were staying at the H otel, and there was a crowd o f about 50 white girls waiting fo r The Osmonds. They all went round to the back o f the hotel, and at one point several o f them, including A nita and Alison, worked their way towards the kitchens to try and get in that way One o f the hotel staff came out and told them to go back dow n­ stairs, but he did give them a picture o f the Jackson 5. T h e girls returned to the pavement, and then, For Something Com pletely D ifferent ... .... a couple o f policem en came along, snatched the photo away, and started pushing the girls, telling them to “ M ove O n ” . The girls m oved on, but com ­ plained at the pushing. Alison was grabbed around the neck, and pulled towards the van; Anita ran over and shouted “ Leave her alone' By now one o f the policem en was hitting her in the face. Another o f the group o f 8 police then ran over and pushed her first up against a wall, and then into the van, where both girls were given a thorough beating that included use o f a trun­ cheon. Cecille Palmer, a friend w ho had heard the sound o f the beating, and who was crying, banged on the closed door o f the Black Maria, and was also dragged into the van, and included in the beating. Shortly

One o f the tabloids that was going to tow n on the w eenybopper angle, carried a picture o f them, sitting in the back o f a police wagon, lookin g very disconsolate at having missed Donny. "B u t,” explained one o f the spoilt 13-year olds, who seem to epitom ise O smond fans, "th e y were very nice to us.” It ’s not that sur­ prising. The O smond fans are weeny boppers. T h ey are white, too. Some Quotes: “ E very word we said, like “ Leave us alon e", we got h it in the face. A n d m y friend was bang­ ing on the back o f the van. Cecille was crying and everything, because o f what they were doing to us. The policem an opened the door, and he grabbed her fro m the shoulders up­ wards, and pushed her down on the floor, and every tim e she opened her m outh, he stamped on her head and h it her in the stomach. So 1 turned round and said, "G e t o f f h er", then one o f them socked m e righ t in the eye.” — Anita.

"W e asked them if there were any black policem en, and they said, yes, there is one in H arrow R oa d .” — Alison. “ They kept calling us monkeys, and everything. They told her to go and swing fro m the trees. One said, "G o and get them wogs ou t o f the c e ll" ’ — Anita. “ While I was at the station, one o f the coppers said, “ Y o u 're going to turn in to another Angela Davis; y o u ’re just like h er." Every tim e he saw me, he poin ted m e o u t to who­ ever he was with, and said, “ There’s the leader; she’s Angela Davis.” — Anita.

Illustration by M itch cells fo r five hours, and got threatened w ith further beatings by everyone from the wom en police to the cleaning ladies. A ll three girls were searched by tw o fat, very butch policewom en, on e o f whom set about A n ita’ s see-through tights very vigorously. Eventually the girls were released at about half past six, due as much as anything, to the persistence o f Johnny and Carole, An ita's sister who had also been one o f the pop fans. The trial was the next day. The girls w ere in a novel situation — after all, they were pop fans, not black militants, at least until now. T h e y had not applied fo r Legal Aid, and pleaded guilty. Thus, the Court proceedings w ere pretty one-sided, and they had to endure lurid

Jackson and Osmond scenes were placid com pared to the reception to say The Beatles and The Stones; going further back, Elvis, the Everly Brothers and T om m y Steele all elicited reactions that out-do any­ thing that has happened since pop concert reactions were lumped in with the general threat to L aw 'n' Order. Press reaction was the same to the Osmonds and the Jacksons — it was hysterical and inaccurate about the receptions to b oth groups. The police, however, were more discerning. That same week, they did arrest some Osmond fans — well, not quite. T h e police used a Black Maria to give them a lift home to m um m y — via the police station, where th ey w ere given a cup o f tea, and most assuredly not a beating.

" A t the end o f it all, when he asked us i f there was anything else we would like to say, A nita said there was one thing she would like to say, and that was that she did n o t think there was a need fo r all this violence So the Magistrate said, “ Yes, I agree with you ; there isn’t any need fo r all this violence. What i f all you ng girls like you went around beating up p olice m en ? Then they w ouldn't be able to keep the law, would th e y ? " — Alison. "W hen the Hearing had finished, my sister sto od up and said, “ D o you think I co u ld be allowed to say any­ th in g ? " A n d he said, "W ell, i t ’s too late n ow ." A n d she said, “ D o you really mean to tell m e that you do not realisethat this is n o t one-sided? D o you mean to saythatyou believe, one policem an stood up there, and he g o t a beating fro m these girls, while the oth e r policem en stood around and w atched?" So the M agi strate said to her, “ Well, I ’m sorry, i t ’s to o late, you can’t say anything n ow .” So she said, “ I ’ll just leave that fo r you to think about.” — Carol Chris Lightbow n.

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e're always droning on about some temporary tinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pot rock moron. Here's an O Z tribute to Cole Porter, an establishment dandy of the past who wrote love songs for those who: "Found that the fountain of youth Was a mixture of gin and verm outh.â&#x20AC;? and whose lyrics still make a kind of sweet sentimental sense today that Marc Bullshit & Co w on't be making tomorrow.

Love that's only slightly soiled.

LCVE r c c SALE Verse.

Love fo r sale. Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply? Who's prepared to pay the price For a trip to paradise? L ove fo r sale.

When the only sound in the em pty street Is the heavy tread o f the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop,

In their childish way,

I open shop.

I know e v'ry ty p e o f love

Let the poets pipe o f love

When the moon so long has been gazing down

Better far then they.

On the wayward ways o f this w ayward tow n

If you want the thrill o f love.

That her smile becomes a smirk.

I've been thru the mill o f love.

I go to work.

Old love, new love, Ev'ry love but true love.

Refrain

Love fo r sale. Appetizing young love fo r sale.

Love fo r sale.

If you went to buy my wares

Appetizing young love for sale.

F o llo w me and clim b the stairs. Love fo r sale.

Love that's fresh and still unspoiled.

An d when she was still discontent, Kate'd create a new regiment. So beautiful ladies, b efore to o late. F o llo w the lead o f this potentate, G ive up arranging affairs o f state A n d stay in the hay like Kate the Great Hay-de-hay hay-de-hay hay-de-hay Stay in the hay like Kate the Great. ( Extract)

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P ilot me. I should like you all to know. I'm a famous gigolo. A n d o f lavender, my nature's go t just a dash innit. As I’ m slightly undersexed. Y o u w ill always fin d me next T o som e dowager w ho's wealthy rather than passionate. G o to one o f those night club places An d yo u 'll fin d me stretching my braces. Pushing ladies w ith lifted faces 'round the floo r. But I must confess to you There are moments when I'm blue.

Be the pilot I need.

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Please give m y ship A maiden trip. An d w e 'll get the prize fo r speed

My story Is much to o sad to be told.

So cast aw ay your fears.

T h e o n ly exception I know is the case

Strip my gears.

W here I'm o u t on a quiet spree

Let me carry you through. An d when afraid you are

But practically ev'rythin g leaves me totally cold.

Fighting vainly the old ennui And I suddenly turn and see your fabulous face.

O f going to o far. Then I'll

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I get no kick fro m champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.

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So tell me w h y should it be true That I get a kick out o f you.

And I ask myself whatever I do it for.

Som e get a kick fro m cocaine.

Refrain.

That w ould bore me terrific'ly to o

I'm sure that if I to o k even one sniff

I'm a flo w e r that blooms In the w inter. Sinking deeper and deeper in "s n o w ". I’ m a baby who has N o m other but jazz. I'm a gigolo. I get stocks and bonds From faded blondes Ev'ry tw en ty-fifth o f December.

Y e t I get a kick out o f you. I get a kick ev'ry tim e I see Y o u 're standing there b efo re me. I get a kick though it's cleer to me Y o u obviously d o n 't adore me. I get no kick In a plane. Flying to o high w ith som e guy in the sky Is my idea o f nothing to do. Y e t I get a kick ou t o f you.

Still I'm just a pet That men forget An d o n ly tailors remember. Y e t when I see th e w ay all the ladies Treat their husbands w h o put up the dough. Y o u cannot think me odd If then I thank G od

JUu(rations by William

I'm a gigolo.

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The premise o f this b oo k is that the Beatles w ere great when they were the Beatles, and that their split up was a terrible tragedy for the w orld at large and fo r them individually. Main credit fo r their initial success is given to Brian Epstein, the on ly figure in the b oo k w ho emerges at all sympa­ thetically. (H e had “ class, integ­ rity and charism a"). Epstein cared about the group (adm ittedly at the cost o f the individuality). He protected them fro m the nasty w orld o f business w h ile being m ore concerned to foster their career than to make fast bucks either fo r himself or fo r them. When he died (because the mon-

basic m entality to one o f “ clutching on to their wallets” . Y e t again, com m erce triumphs over art. The process and well-researched details o f the ensuing financial wheeling and dealing (involving, o f course, enormous amounts o f m on ey) make fascinating reading, and there are a fe w incidental details about the Beatles them­ selves w orth knowing. There are several examples o f P aul’s developing upper-middle-class mentality, and there's a certain b itchy interest in reading about Linda Eastman's career as “ empress am ong groupies” b efore she hooked him. It is also

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b ook ) can be bothered to waste their tim e crying over the m ilk that was spilt. M cCabe and Schonfeld give the game away as to their ow n underlying notion about what rock music (and the Beatles) is all about when they give critical approval o n ly to the post-Beatle career o f G eorge — because he's sold m ore records than the others. Generally, the to n e o f the b ook is one o f nasty, gossipy debunking. A large part o f its purpose seems to be to prove — and gloat over — the fact that the Beatles weren’ t God, they were only human after all (and, arrogantly egotistical at that). As i f w e didn’t already know that, fo r Christ’s sake. In tw o or three songs John Lennon has had far more interesting things to say about this subject than these tw o authors do in 209 pages, even if they do show that the Beatles w h o sang “ A ll yo u need is lo v e ” also had m ore than a passing interest in making money, a point that John Lennon has been rather m ore reticent about. The Beatles, say McCabe and Schonfeld, were a gold-mine who came up fo r grabs, and were besieged b y the endless amount o f hustlers w h o didn’t give a fuck about them o r their music, but merely wanted to make bread out o f them. T h e main effect "A p p le to the C ore” , in spite o f the interesting incidental in for­ mation it provides, is that it adds McCabe and Schonfeld to the list o f profiteers. John Hoyland.

In which A n th o n y Haden-Guest takes up a p olitica l positio n slightly to the le ft o f Winnie The P o o h and rushes o f f to lo o k Aghast and Am used at selected m anifestations o f O u r H orrib le Capitalist Consumer Western W orld viz Muzak, Tarzan, Coca Cola, H ilton , C olon el Sanders etc etc, with him self p rovid in g one m o re m anifestation o f that H orrible M ickey M ouse W orld he describes viz his program m ed b ook Dow n The Program m ed Rabbit-H ole. A ll the same it’s a very funny book. In a style w hich pinches something from T om W olfe, Hunter Thompson, A.A .M ilne and James Cameron and gets none o f them quite right, and a technique that throws italics round in an attempt to produce the after dinner post-joint gossip feeling, Haden-Guest digs out some amazing facts and has sur­ realist encounters w ith people that one thought o n ly existed in bad dreams. Haden-Guest was on the fringe o f that group o f writers who form ed the backbone o f O Z in its early years — people like David Widgery, A n gelo Quattrocchi, Germaine Greer, T o m Naim , Bob Hughes, R ay Durgnat, A le x Mitchell, Edward de Bono — and O Z readers w ill love what h e’s fou nd o u t Like ‘There is Muzak in the Pentagon. Both Johm on and N ix o n had it in the White House. N ixon has the fa c ility at K ey Biscayne, while LBJ uses it dow n on the ranch, where speakers are wired individually to trees.’ and the prayer that Conrad H ilton w rote after consul­ tation w ith Norman Vincent Peale. It is a prayer said b y a kneeling figure o f Uncle Sam and begins: A M E R IC A O N IT S K NEE S not beaten there b y hammer and sickle but F R E E L Y , IN T E L L IG E N T L Y , R ESPO N ­ S IB L Y , C O N F ID E N T L Y , P O W E R F U L L Y , Am erica n ow knows it can destroy Communism and w in the Battle fo r peace. This is a b oo k to be read slow ly and savoured. It w ill confirm your lon g held prejudices and turn o f f your m in d A ndrew Fisher. A p p le T o The Core Subtitled “ T h e Unmaking o f the Beatles” b y Peter McCabe and R obert D. Schonfeld. Published b y Martin, Brian and O 'K e e ffe . Price £2.00.

ster he had created had become to o big fo r him) the Beatles had a brief and disastrous attempt at managing their o w n affairs through Apple. Then they began to go their divergent paths as individual artists and people, and simultaneously their financial affairs became an unholy mess. The result: they delivered them­ selves into the hand o f unscrupu­ lous businessmen (K lein and the Eastmans), accelerated the split ibetween them and reduced their

interesting to n ote that while John and Y o k o were doinq their bed-ins fo r peace th ey were con­ stantly taking tim e o f f to rush back to Lon don to haggle w ith city financiers over the future o f Northern Songs, NEM S, Apple, the Beatles’ Co. etc. But the overall perspective o f the b oo k just doesn’t hold water. The Beatles’ split was clearly inevitable, and o n ly p eople w ho are com pletely hung up on the Spectacle (lik e the author o f the

Ways o f Seeing John Berger and others (Pelican) This b ook starts o f f fro m the basic proposition that this w orld o f ours is fou nded on privilege in property, opportu n ity and power. And you don ’t have to be a genius to see that that isn’t to o far from the truth. But if so, then there must be props which support this privilege. A n d obviously there is no shortage o f candidates fo r inclusion in a list o f those: fro m the police right through to an education system organised along class lines. But o f course, it's not as i f these issues get seriously con fron ­ ted in most people's everyday lives — they get glossed over, th e y ’re boring or th e y ’re som e­ thing you can't do anything about. The uncom fortable realities get hidden under a layer o f m ystifi­ cation posing as common-sense and passive acceptance o f anything which is familiar ( I f y o u ’re n ot

convinced that this happens, lo o k up the Sun’s verdict on the Stoke N ew in gton 8). So here the problem becomes o n * about language — that p eop le’s v ery ways o f understanding and talking about themselves prevent i them fro m beginning to ask the right sorts o f questions. This b ook ' screws up its courage and tries to say on e or tw o things about h ow this happens — starting o f f with an exploration o f h o w it happens in one small area, that o f visual art Our classical art being, first and forem ost, a celebration o f possession — possession o f power, property, land, horse, woman; the fact then gets dressed up in pseudo-religious pomp, disguised b y endless meaningless argument (was Van E yck a greater genius than Reubens? Take your pick) and frosted over b y rightful grovelling to the judgments o f the critics. W hich leaves you and I wordless, w ith n othing to do but accept it as right and proper. So art gets taken out o f his­ torical perspective, stops being by or about real people in real situ­ ations, and becomes a freefloa tin g phantasm surrounded b y an aura w ith which the establish­ m ent covers itself. It should be no surprise that in the boardrooms, the conference halls and the inner chambers the art o f the past is used to lend authority to the present power. T h e idea o f possession is the link betw een the various parts o f the book. Art, which celebrates the possession o f privileges, has becom e a privileged possession and as such is just another cog in the consumption machine. It begins to com e clear w h y so fe w people feel they are being fo rce d to do as th ey are told — buy, work, own, stay in line, make no trouble. It has already been predeterm ined that their own thinking w ill lead them to the trough anyway. The language that m ost people have fo r descri­ bing themselves has kept right in line w ith every n ew econom ic and ideological tw ist along our historical route to 20th century lunacy. Through the glamour invested in them b y the colour magazines and the publicity machine, the privileged few , b y their very exis­ tence, pronounce themselves the natural inheritors o f everything civilised and g o o d O f w h om you are fortunate if y o u are a pale shadow. In the name o f the Owners, pulling the strings. For theirs is the kingdom, the pow er and the armoury. For ever and e v e r ......... T h e b ook exposes all this w ell enough. But gives fe w clues as to what to do about it: h ow to re­ capture a stolen language. Stuart W ooler.

T h ere’ s little meat and to o much obvious technique. Nevertheless it som etimes works and is merci­ fu lly short and to the p o in t It's crazy that it was ever published in an expensive hardback prestige form at. It should have been a th row aw ay paperback and then probably all the things I ’ve com ­ plained about w ou ldn 't be so im portant and the crazy texture o f the b oo k w ou ld com e o u t Wait fo r the paperback and then buy it is m y advice. A n d rew Fisher. The B od y P o litic W om en's Liberation in Britain 1969-72. C om piled b y M ichelene Wandor. ( Published by \Stage 1, 21 Theobalds Rd, Lo n ­ don WC1, 1972. Price 60p retail. 50p if ordered through the W om en’s Liberation Workshop, 3/4 Shaver’s Place, L o n d o n SW1. 01-839 3918.)

K ennedy lay o n a kitchen floor. I m et a man and Martin Luther K ing crumpled on a m otel bal­ cony. I kn ow eve ry th in g ." ” Where it’ s superficial is that the author tries to let all the sym­ bols and the unexpected turns o f events do all the w ork fo r him.

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him things that made his scalp shrink and his stomach bunch up. “ I gave the order that scattered John K en n edy’ s skull across a Dallas street. I had the w ord passed to L yn d on Johnson so that he shivered and withdrew. I made a phone call and R ob ert

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This is a novel o f rampant super­ ficiality. It tries very hard to be funny and o ften succeeds. It’ s a caricature o f the Am erican war machine using names like Elvis Presley and Major Marble which are in themselves part jo k e and part symbol. The b oo k sounds like this: " A n d then Lassiter told

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A Warm Gun b y Peter Smalley. Published b y Andre Deutch.

W om en's Liberation in Britain began w ith m ore than the usual disadvantages given to such m ove­ ments. F o r the popular straight ress it was quite a bonanza, and churned o u t their version o f what W om en ’s L ib was all about; bra-burning, groups o f neurotic w om en dem onstrating in N e w Y o rk being b oo ed b y passers-by, lesbianism, etc., etc, etc. O ther papers scarcely m entioned it. The Underground press occasion­ ally gave it space, and even devoted special issues to wom en edited b y wom en. This was fo r confused reasons, however, n ot fo r any real b elief in it (w ith the notable exception o f Frendz, madam — T ypesetter), but because o f their tradition o f publishing. On the L e ft, some individual w om en w ere allow ed to put forth their feelings in its press. M ore recently the media has had to deal w ith the subject m ore seriously. Som e wom en journalists in the straight media have becom e involved in the m ovem ent and w ritten about it in their papers. Individual books, such as T h e Fem ale Eunuch, have brought serious considera­ tion o f w om en to a much wider public. R eluctantly the straight media has had to com e to terms w ith the fact that W omen's Liberation is som ething a little m ore than the fuddled mur­ mur ings o f hysterics. O f course, there are scores o f sneering references to the movem ent still, even in the sporting pages o f papers like The Sun. From the v ery first, however, the W om en ’s Liberation M ove­ ment has produced its ow n literature, in the fo rm o f leaflets, pamphlets, and newsletters like Shrew’. ‘T h e B ody P o litic ’ is a com pilation o f these writings which are a record o f the first impressions, experiences and the grow th o f the m o vem en t The contents embrace a w ide range o f topics. ‘W om en Speaking’ includes articles on ‘W om en and the fa m ily ’, ‘ Id en tity ’ , ‘T V and w om en ’ , "ITie black w om an ’ . ‘T h e M ovem en t’ has the history o f W om en's Liberation in Britain, impressions o f a small group, feminism. ‘ S ociety — Steps in analysis' is the last section in the b oo k and has topics such as ‘ The fa m ily ’, ‘W om en and w ork ', ‘ Crime and the b od y p o litic ’, and ‘ W om en and action, Past and

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Present'. It is v ery clear fro m the b o o k that the M ovem ent m oved qu ickly fro m consciousness raising to political discussions. Rosalind Delmar in her piece ‘What is Fem inism ' says “ A n oth er n ew feature o f m odern fem inism is its analysis o f id e o lo g y ’ and fo r the w om en in the m ovem en t w ho had first begun to discuss them­ selves " f t is clear that the abolition o f all form s o f private p roperty is a pre-condition fo r w o m e n ’s liberation, since w om en them ­ selves are a fo rm o f private p ro p erty.” From the confusion o f the late '60s the most significant m ovem ent to emerge has been W om en ’s Liberation. A n d it is a m ovem ent that cannot be sto] stopped and w ill continue to grow,, It is a m ovem ent which has in volved a to tal re-think fo r many people, b oth men and w om en. F o r those w ho have been in volved fro m the start, later and n ow, T h e B ody P olitic w ill have historical im por­ tance, fo r those w h o have flirted w ith W om en ’s Liberation it may be the beginning o f an affair, and h opefu lly it w ill be read b y many w ho have n o t y et had access to this material. The editor, M ichelene Wandor, spent tw o years getting this b oo k together and published. The pub­ lisher, Richard Handeyside and she made every e ffo rt to keep costs down, so that it could go on sale as cheaply as possible. T h e royalties and any profits from the b oo k w ill be goin g to the movement. Louise Ferrier.

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Savages is based on a simple, but extraordinary idea. It opens in a sensuous forest, deep and tangled, where a tribe o f m u d people, ou t­ rageously masked and feathered, are preparing a gruesome fertility rite. Suddenly, a croquet ball comes fly in g through the air. The savages (n o t unnaturally) marvel at this strange, sm ooth sphere, and set out to trace where it comes from . What th ey com e to is a huge, elegant, w h ite and deserted 18th century house. Inside th ey discover clothes, pictures and all the trappings o f 20th century ‘ civilisation’. Then, by degrees, the tribe becomes transformed in to an elegant 1920’s house party. T h e y form liaisons. T h e y h old sophisticated conversations. T h e y h old grand parties. But, then, gradually luxury declines into decadence. L ife sinks b elo w stairs, where in the damp gloom o f the cellars, party games becom e orgiastic ritual. In a final hectic dawn game

o f croquet the savages chase their croquet balls back rnto the forest. As a scheme it is simple, per­ haps predictable. But the simpli­ c ity is deceptive. We are made to see the strange curve fro m an o d d ly ironical v ie w p o in t T h e M ud people are introduced in a 1920’s docum entary style in black and white, com p lete w ith M G M titles — one o f w h ich ex

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Lo o k in g over their first car. plains that “ tribal elders are o ften distinguished by pebbles in their teeth, though this is n ot the case here” . Suddenly, an untitled German narration starts. N o t understanding German, I was struck b y a com ic m ock scholarly effect. James Iv o ry says this is just what he wanted. But in fact, fo r the cognoscenti the w ords are Schiller’s com m entary o n the rise and fall o f civilisations. This curious iron y sets th e ton e fo r the whole. Clearly it ’s n o t all to be taken to o seriously. Thank­ fully, it’s no laboured allegory o f life. Rather the pattern serves as a support fo r a string o f visual comments, o f m ocking vignettes, o f film ic ‘ double entendres’, and some lush porn. The variety, the unexpectedness and th e delicate irony o f these generates amazing richness. The film is crow ded w ith memorable moments. There is the short cropped ‘capitalist’ — asser­ tive, pow erful, grasping: “ I o ften cheat, but I never lie ” . F or a m oment th e camera catches him sitting ecstatically sm oking a cigar surrounded b y a vast m od el rail­ way. There are some riveting moments o f m onologue — ‘a highly strung girl' cells a haunting, w allow ing story o f a painter who tried to catch the exact shade o f red o f the b loo d which dribbled from the mouth o f his dying w ife . A danger o f this sort o f film essay’ is that — as w ith other experiences — on e can get bored between the climaxes. A n d Sava­ ges is n ot entirely free fro m this — particularly where the sugges­ tion wears thin or the humour lapses. But unexpected touches are o ften just around the corner. It's a film which raises many questions, but attempts no answers. Y o u can read fairly much what yo u like into i t T o this exten t it's hardly a ‘serious’ movie. A n d th a t’s m aybe no bad thing. What is serious about it is its style — disturbing, m ocking and to me quite original, like nothing I have ever seen. N ic k Young.

G old Directed b y Bill Deloge Greaser's Palace Directed b y R obert D ow n ey The main difference betw een the slapstick satires G old and Grea­ ser s Palace is that the form er is a largely utopian message Western made b y Westerners w hile the latter is a nothing’ s sacred c ow b o y

fam ily his death resurrects. Its compassion d ifficu lt to nail down, Greaser's Palace is one audio-visual gag after another — western parable straight facing, etting orgasms, every sort o f izarre local type, etc. But its greatest contribution may be in its y et another ad d ition to the burgeoning crucifixion-as-cliche emergence in contem porary entertainment. A British film , The O th er Side o f the Underneath, d irected b y Jane Arden, even has a nude wom an m addeningly being reborn fro m the cross. In the hell-bent rush tow ard making T h e Great (and/or Hip) Am erican M ovie, G o ld succeeds better than Greaser’s Palace o n ly because it isn’t trying. But neither in the prurient do th ey even meet. A rn ie Passman.

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P h oto fro m A r t and S ociety :S ex. Ken Baynes. (L u n d Humphries, Welsh A rts Council,£2.50)________________ _______________________________________ and Indians parody directed b y N e w Y o rk er R ob ert D owney. Their similarity is that, as wholes, they b oth pretty much fail. G old is simply a California hippie/anarchic vision, the new Am erican dream; son o f summer o f '67. Gary G oodrow , long tim e improvisational master fro m the C om m ittee in San Francisco, n icely using all his very human acting resources w h ile reflecting the m edia’s stereotype to lam­ poon T h e Bad G uy o f T he Movies. He's the surly, hung-up railroad sheriff, puritanical in ethos and capitalistic in fervour. He really can't be laughed at, although it helps, because that's where T h e L aw is. G o o d ro w goes around sending people on a gold rush, beating up a stripper a la Bogart ( “ Y o u 're m y d oll and I d on ’t like m y dolls liking doing th a t"), slapping black out strips across three year olds' crotches, ramming a cohort cocksman as m ayor d ow n the folk s’ throats, evicting a long-time resident, e ta D el Close, also fro m T h e Com ­ mittee, is his u nw itting foil, a cruddy, black garbed, broken­ legged junkie fo o l w h o interrupts orgies to bring bad news, comes to parties after th ey’re over, generally is shit upon until he emerges as a freaked-out Che to liberate the people. Cutting in and o u t with foo tage o f Am erican violence and backed b y music fro m the MC5, Ram blin' Jack Elliott, and T o n i Brown, am ong others, G old re­ kindles in rather desperate fashion the hopes and dreams o f half a decade ago. Its message is govern­ ment which governs te s t governs least But when California voters can smash a simple legal posses­ sion o f grass statute and re-estab­ lish the death penalty by the 2-1 m ajority required____ Greaser's Palace is just to o

intent o n destroying the myths o f the Am erican West. W ritten in London, its o fte n brilliant cyni­ cism com es nowhere near the awesome awareness o f E l T op o, or fo r that matter H opp er’s muchmaligned, erratic, but essentially right-on T he Last M ovie. D ow n ey even has to satirise a Western sun­ set, including ribs at 2001 and The Beatles in the process. Greaser's Palace, which takes much to o lon g in taking o ff, is the story o f the second com ing o f Jesus as a zoot-suited song-anddance man in the West. Jesse, as he is known, makes his way through the wastes walking on water, resurrecting L am ey Hom o, latent son o f constipated saloon owner Seaweedhead Greaser — who three times murders Lam ey, producing w ater in the desert, etc. M iraclizing w ith hands and “ If yo u feel, yo u heal,” he tells all he is heading fo r Jerusalem to becom e an actah-singahdancah” . “ It is w ritten the agent Morris w aits fo r m e,” he exclaims. A n d o f all the zanies in Grea­ ser's Palace (an d th ey range fro m a gay M exican dw arf to T h e H o ly Ghost - “ Y o u ’ll I can do because you me a chance” ), the agent in a b rief cameo steak the show. L o o k in g like A lic e Cooper, he wears a space bubble, h ot pants and thick platform wedgees as he tells Jesse his act just doesn't make i t But Jesse, whose very distinc­ tive mannerisms seems to evolve fro m the Groucho slouch and shuffle, has already turned on clubowner Greaser w itn his talents (th e stigmata shtick does it), much to the dismay o f Greaser’s exotic dancing daughter. The film ends, o f course, w ith Jesse's crucifixion, done in b y a classic “ m o rtally” multi-wounded wom an he has saved and whose

M arjoe D irected by H ow ard Smith and Sarah Kernochan M arjo Gortner is an ex-southern California bom -and-bred funda­ mentalist evangelist, a regal authentic Jesus freak about 30 w ho has h ippily given up the lucrative game. Descendant o f fou r generations o f Pentecostal ravers, he delivered his first ser­ mon at age four, and his extra­ ordinary life is the archrhythm ic documentary, M arjoe. F o r M ary + Joseph. A s a member o f revivalist ro ya lty - a Paul A treides o f W hite Trash, the cute, curly-haired Mar­ jo e had his soul o n fire carefully manipulated and honed b y a classic show b iz mother. V ery early performances are surrealistically shown in M arjoe, including a marriage cerem ony at age five. California courts said it was legal much to the consternation o f Am erican clergymen. “ Every gesture was forced on me b y m y m other,” said Marjoe. “ I f I wanted to go o u t and play, I c o u ld n 't T o convince me to ‘ practice’ she'd smother me with a p illo w or put m y head in a basin o f water. She didn’t dare hit me because that m ight leave marks and I had to be seen in public. ‘ ‘ When I w ou ld get to a town, m y parents w ou ld take me around to all the papers, and I ’ d walk up to the c ity desk and say, ‘H o w do you do, sir? I'm the R everend M arjoe Gortner, and I'v e com e to your d t y to give the devil tw o black eyes. “ T h e editors w ou ld ask me if

I m em orized m y sermons and I ’d say, ‘ N o, they com e to me in m y sleep,' o r something. This wasn’t true; they w ere com pletely rehear­ sed, and m y m other had signals like ‘ Praise Jesus’ if I was to o slow up or ‘ Hallelujah’ to speed up, and so on .” A n d so on went on until age 14 in 1955 and through three m illion dollars until M arjoe's father, the R everend Vernon, disappeared during a performance w ith the collection. M arjoe and m other eked through the next tw o years, but the n ovelty was wearing o ff. M arjoe dropped out o f public sight fo r over ten years. He lived w ith an older wom an he had met on a southern California beach fo r a while, and then w ent to college. During the early 60s, Marjoe got in to the non-violent m ove­ ment, politics, drugs, etc. An d then his exhibitionist instincts to o k him back to the tent and the pulpit. Alth ou gh it wasn’t made evident in the film , the ultra m od clad M arjoe traded his hell and brimstone preaching fo r the jo y and salvation w hoopees o f the Aquarian dawn. But his audience w ou ldn ’t buy it, so he returned to the h ighly profitable “ T o Hell W ith Y o u , I f Y o u D o n ’t B elieve!” “ A n d i f you d o ,” he implores them, “ Bring up your largest bill......” In a fascinating scene, a bare chested M arjoe is shown in his m otel room ( “ There are revivalist groupies, o f course, but I can't hit on them — at all; I stick to the stewardesses” ) preaching his ser­ mon cross lecged on his bed as he separates his m oney from a brown paper bag. “ But I'm not the businessman some o f the guys are,” he said. “ Lik e there’s one cat who has a radio show that reaches fo r ty states. A n d h e'll go on the air and say something like: ‘ N ow , there's a little o ld lady, dear to me, out there w ith ten dollars in her cookie jar, and I'm asking you to send that ten dollars to me to do the L o rd ’ s w o rk .” “ N ow , he doesn’t k n o w there’s such a person out there. But, you know, he says that pitch gets him about 200 replies whenever he uses i t T hat’ s tw o grand in one

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n ig h t!" However, such hypocrisy and duplicity was bound to affec t Marjoe. A n d he struggled w ith it for over tw o years. Finally, after presenting a full range o f h oly rolling w hite and black gospel (short for G o d Spell, don’t you , know ?), the film ends w ith Marjoe going into retirement. " I ’ve often thought o f going up there and telling them where I was really at,” he said. "B u t one thing or another, mainly m oney hangups, kept me fro m doing it. But I can’t really keep on living this double life anymore. " I guess I ’d like to be a rock star — you can see I use M ick Jagger gestures and tricks - or an jr .” S kilfully and fairly directed by Village V o ice columnists Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, Mar­ jo e might seem to some eyes, hip or otherwise, to be a thorough indictm ent o f evangelism. One girl from N orth Carolina, after seeing it, said: “ I d on ’t think it showed the good in it.” j .f Marjoe him self exclaim ed: “ I f I had to go into a Christian religion, it’ d be the Pentecostal. Man, the music! I stayed in it this long because o f the show. And m y ego, o f course.” Later on, relieving years o f tension by parodying his act, he cried: "Can G od deliver a religion ‘ a d d ict?" The point is that what Marjoe has been doing is universal, the possibly best side o f any religion, an incontrovertible p ro o f G od exists in man. A pow erful expose, M arjoe is n ot even uniquely American, o r necessarily a “ sinis­ ter aspect o f contem porary Am eri­ can l ife ." O ld Testament prophets, Siberian shamans, v o o d o o priests, witches and warlocks, black and white, have used it — or are used by it. A n d the audience’s resulting dance trance, speaking in tongues, declaration o f personal vision, even seeing G od, is gaining renewed respect. In any event, a dude named Denver Dan once to ld Kesey: "T h e third e ye is what w e ’re shooting for. But it ’s a bitch to leave the throat b e h in d ” Referring to Christ claiming G od ’s throne in heaven, Marjoe said in a sermon: “ When a high priest sits down, his w ork is done. O r m aybe just beginning. By all means, see M arjoe as he was. A rn ie Passman.

Born T o B oogie Directed b y R ingo Starr A pple Films

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Marc Bolan's film opened at the smallest cinema in the West End, Oscar 1. A w eek after the prem­ iere, I went to see it and found the cinema three-quarters empty. Just the facts, ma’am, you know you can’t fo o l the children o f the ........... skip it. Born T o B oogie is an inept piece o f garbage. The band plays something abominable, the blown-up 16mm film is grainy, blotchy and washed-out, and the staged location sequences w ould be a grievous insult to the intelli­ gence o f a four-year o ld pinhead. Making a docum entary about Marc Bolan ain’t a bad notion.

The Bopping E lf is quite a fasci­ nating figure, n iftier w ith quotes than chords these days, but Jesus, w hatcha* want, go o d grammar or good taste? But doesn t a badlyshot and w orse-recorded recrea­ tion o f M arc's W em bley Pool squeal-in really make it e v m w h e n interspersed w ith cutesv.Mttle scenes that w ou ld have had a hard tim e making it through a Monkees story conference. So w e see Marc parading around the W em bley stage like a little girl in her mother t clothes, bashing out some fairly primitive riffs on an out-bf-tune guitar. We see him hamm ing up tw o o f his better recent songs Spaceball R ico ch et” and “ Cosmic Dancer” w h ile scratching aimlessly on an acoustic Epiphone w ith its to p E string almost a quarter-tone flat. We even see him (in the film ’s funniest sequence) slyly giving head to a m icrophone w hich is slow ly but remorselessly losing Hts erection. A s D avid Bowie could doubtless have told you, Marc, when in doubt go fo r t h e f i ^ blow job. I As the playing is appallingly sloppy (despite some judicious overdubbing), the film ing is pedes­ trian and fu zzy and the staged scenes are so fantastically dire, Born T o B oogie is an exasperating waste o f time. Perhaps the sequence over the closing credits gives it away. Marc is standing whacking away at a silver guitar producing the most godawful racket you ever heard in your life when an acolyte approaches him, unplugs him, and helps him o f f stage. T h e n ........... kazowie! A dw arf materialises in a thunder­ b olt and in a fren zy o f adoring lust proceeds to eat Marc’s Fender amplifier. Lik e I was saying, you can t fo o l the children o f the revolution.................. Charles Shaar M urray

SOUNDZ Charles Shaar M urray picks his five worst records o f 1972... Obviously, the really rock-bottom rancid albums o f any given year are by cruddy no-hopes w ho no­ b od y ever hears of, but the albums that are usually most irritating to the sensitive, trained intellect are those by artists who, while being gifted, have managed with the unerring instinct o f true creative souls, to totally b lo w it. Perhaps the most outstanding 1972 example o f this phenomenon in action was John & Y o k o & Ele­ phant’ s M em o ry’s Som e T im e in N ew Y ork C ity (A p p le ). Here we have the thoroughly unpleasant experience o f seeing one o f m odern ro ck ’s finest minds

M artin Sharp, whose w ork has appeared in O z'w itn varying treque ever since the earliest days in Australia, has published (M athews M M iller & Dunbar £ 1 .5 0 ) an A R T BOOK. The tu b tle ty M f the collages A he has made by co m b in in g Much painters as M agritte and Van Gogh sends you spinning back to the originals to m ake sure y ou r men hasn’t turned turtle. T h row away that cum bersom e tw enty guii__ T re c h ik o ft and p u t A R T B O O K on y ou r c o ffe e table instead. This one will run ana run.... wasting itself in self-indulgent nonsense. Sure B ob Dylan foun­ ded nL> career on writing didactic, proselytising political songs, but w e were so much older then, right? Com plete the quotation. “ The Luck o f the Irish” may well be the worst song o f the year, far exceeding in o ffe n c e quotient such harmless ditties as "M etal Guru” and " L it t le W illy” and “ Circles" a n d .....let us call their names w ith pride. Is today's boppin’ teen going to support the I R A the W om en’s M ovement, the A ttica People, Angela Davis, John Sinclair and all the other rent-a-causes just because Joko do? More im portant still, w ill they understand them? T. R e x ’s The Slider (T . R ex Wax Co) is astoundingly annoying for a variety o f reasons. The first and most obvious is that it ’s fan­ tastically bad, but I refuse to be­ lieve that the man w ho produced Unicorn could be happy w ith this. Y o u see, basically I like Bolan. I was one o f the proud fe w who, spurred on b y the urgings o f Jum­ pin’ John Peel, purchased Tyranno saurus R e x ’s “ D ebora” single in its first week o f issue, back in the golden days when Steve T o o k had a gig. The songs on U nicorn were imaginative and sophisticated, tw o qualities sadly lacking fro m The Slider. Lastly, it ’s simply a drag to see music that bad being that popular. Again I get incredibly frus­ trated when I see record com ­ panies pushing crap out onto the market in the sacred name o f Jimi Hendrix. I suppose you can't blame two-bit, one-horse labels for putting out terrible o ld jam tapes, but when his " o f fic ia l" record label pulls similar bum ers, it gets actively offensive. War Heroes (P o ly d o r) is a collec­ tion o f assorted garbage, unfini­ shed tracks, off-nights, and a sneaky little reissue o f a '67 Bside. It appears that rock critics are expected to react to rip-offs like this b y parading their griet for the dead master, and enthuse

extravagantly about his genius, but the fact remains that Jimi b lew it a fe w times, and also that his record com pany, b y issuing, these leftovers, are damaging the consumer, their ow n reputation, and the reputation o f Jimi Hen­ drix. On the other hand, I sup­ pose they get some b read Lou R eed (R C A ) was one w orth y soul w ho should have done a lo t better than he did. His first solo album was a colos­ sal bore, despite the glossilysmooth backings, production and engineering jobs. Even the sleeve was a super-nifty. T h e trouble was that the songs w eren ’t any g o o d Apart from “ W ild C h ild 'V Lisa Says” , “ I Can’t Stand It’ ’ and “ W alk It A n d T alk I t ” , none o f the songs had any coherence whatsoever, and L o u ’s gift fo r incredible incisive lyrics seemed to be on an extended long w eek­ end in Max's Kansas City. His second solo album, Transform er (R C A ) was a considerable im­ p rovem en t It contained one good song. Finally, another big downer was Frank Zappa’s Waka/JawakaH o t Rats (R eprise). It sounded like the w ork o f a man w ho's just broken his leg, is held dow n by leg-irons, whose entire band has just walked out on him, and is feeling u tterly pissed o f f about the w hole thing.

B oom ers S to ry R y Co oder Reprise Bottleneck guitar is rather like speed; used w ith decorum it can make the w orld a little bit brigh­ ter; used recklessly it strangles the user and bores the listener. The trouble is that superficially it’ s so easy. Y o u just slide it up and down, and, in the words o f the song, the rest comes natchur’ly. N o frets to w o rry about, released from all irksome restrictions (o ften including m elody and rhythm ). T o say that most white

bottleneck players around today are m ediocre is to be to o kind, as they oscillate like clockw ork be­ tw een ultrasonic variations on "D u st M y B room ’ and soundtrack noises fro m "S o u th Pacific” . Even some highly rated black players lack that con trol in d taste which the freed om o f the bottleneck demands. R y Cooder may go dc wn as the man w ho saved bottleneck guitar fro m degradation and ex­ tinction. There have been three or fou r players as good o r better, but th ey’re all black and all dead. C ooder uses his guitar fo r music not sound effects and he appears . . to be unable to play an unfunky note. He helped inake Beefheart's "S a fe as M ilk " a stand-out album o f the 60't. He (and Clapton) made a < bluesman out o r K e ith Rich H is first •were :entric gei d him K shatas a sin ger." taring, but and Hend r ix (am ong tve shown Caruso to you d on 't ha' take care o f busine: Stains the Boom ers S to ry same odd assortin' Fof songs as the previous al' o f straight country t>IUM, W Oody Guthrie type Depression-ballads, ‘.‘ n ovelty' songs, patriotic an­ thems fro m the Civil War and uple o f superb W W II and* But musically in strums there's sh at all. T h e same der's guitar (acoustic blend it hardly seems to 6r el< piano, drums and bass or

tuba runs through the w h ole set, added to at times by mandolin, harmonica, clarinet and horns. (R a n d y Newman figures on one track). Cooder's g ift fo r jerky irregular rhythm s which still rock along is more exaggerated than ever. A g ift handed straight dow n fro m the country blues greats, especially R obert Johnson. T he album is a sort o f tribute to Sleepy John Estes, w h o plays and sings on one track, “ President K en n edy” , and has com poser credits o n another. Cooder appears to have learned a lo t fro m him, particularly in his choices o f chord progressions (as h e learned m elo­ dies fro m Skip James). “ Cherry Ball Blues” is one o f the finest guitar instrumentals ever put down, demonstrating h o w to overdub w ithout fighting yourself. T h e o n ly potential bum track is that repulsively slushy Latin tune “ Maria Elena” but he even saves that (b y a hair’s breadth) fro m the vomit-bag. I f there is a thread running through C ooder’ s choice 6 f material, it is his fascination w ith the 1930’s and 40’s; h ow ­ ever, ui period n ot the showbiz glamour and extravagance but the Great Depression and its music. The songs o f hungry people, black and white. That’s just one more, non-musical reason fo r finding R y C ooder a breath o f fresh air in a stale, slightly putrid, rock scene. D ick Fountain.

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Dear Reader, /fe e l that as a reader o f this magazine you are looking f o r some o f the really hard to get type o f Very Adult publications. I f / am wrong, please do not read on; as it is not my intention to solicit orders fro m anybody who may be shocked o r offended by the advanced nature o f the m aterial that we have available. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our new range o f books and in order to prove our fast reliable service and establish goodw ill I am offering them to you at discounted prices. B U T not only this, on receipt o f your order I will not only send you your book(s), I will also send you F R E E O F C H A R G E a set o f action photos featuring M j F , Les, Girls with Objects, open crutch, etc. This offer is being made f o r this week only and is too good to miss. Anyway to get down to our new advanced range o f books - O riginal C lim ax Magazines. These magazines were originally published in Denmark some three years ago, just after pornography was legalised and they were a m ajor success world-wide, although they were only sold 'under the counter' in the UK. C lim ax looked f o r a British distributor, but all were too tim id to handle it - hesitantly they argued that it urn fa r too strong and that it could not be sold in England without censoring; and to be honest we too turned down the opportunity o f distributing C lim ax. However, with the new liberal attitude towards erotica we fe e l that the time is now right to release this new range o f books. Whilst in Denmark they are selling Clim ax 60 we are starting at number I and issuing fo u r a month. The series will be published completely unretouched and uncensored, you will see in large, unretouched pages every conceivable sexual detail in bold unashamed action-photos - featuring young and virile Swedish couples. / would ask you to hurry and send in your order N O W! I am sure that these magazines will be a sell out; i f we are sold out when your order arrives, you will receive a f u ll cash refund. Send your orders to: Sensational Publishing, ( Dept. ), 70 Woodhouse Road, Leytonstone, London E l l . This'is the first time strong m aterial like this has ever been openly sold in the U K - it is up to you to take advantage o f this incredible offer.

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Dear Oz, When I came up to London three years ago I was happily promiscuous as w ell as being bogged dow n in what I eventually realised was a sado-masochistic affair — me being the id iot masochist and him the insecure (p artly because o f my prom iscuity) and therefore vengeful sadist. Ironically, when we first plunged into the short-lived bliss o f this youthful relationship that was later to becom e so sordid, m y beloved had said ‘ O f course you understand y o u ’re free to sleep with anyone y ou fan cy.” A kindly permissiveness which I naively believed to be heartfelt and accor­ dingly acted upon. I thought I was fairly liberated sexually ie I never screwed anyone 1 didn’t want t o , screw, I didn’ t mind the fact that I hardly ever had an orgasm, because I really enjoyed going to bed with people and didn’ t feel I was obliged . to com e each tim e I fucked. Every end I hitched 100 miles to my 's university hall, there to spend days in rom antic carnality — C>:be more o r less confined to the puritanical and kicked us out o f immorality. I really loved bat-I was-stTHthat he didn't other g u y * There-' ever I casually said “ I w M onday” I was bemysetf in the ul and o ften v io accusations o n his end which I had to em ploy ‘ f emale devices o f sobs, frantic assurances that m n ow oti 1 w ou ld be faithful to him. I n o w see that these . promises which I never kept played '7} a large part in fucking up both him ' our relationship. But then 1

felt degraded by this grovelling and insincerity. It to o k me a year b efore I go t around to wondering w h y I was taking all the shit he piled on me — public insults etc — but even then I w ould probably have never got around to bringing this messy affair to an end, because I was still vaguely in love and any­ w ay had g o n is e d to having him around. I suppose I enjoyed feeling I hacfpower over him ( I ’ m a nasty little bitch sometimes). Then one drug-crazed January I fe ll under the influence o f kind generous T om who to m y acid-wrecked brain seemed like m y Saviour — when he walked into the room he had a halo round his head, even. He persuaded me to m ove in with him and tended me hand and fo o t fo r six months b efore he became disillusioned — by this tim e I had becom e ungrateful, bone-idle, depressed, withdrawn and secretive. I d idn’t even dare to tell him I was screwing around - he had to read m y diary to find o at what I was doing and thinking. (O d d ly enough he to o had promised before I m oved in w ith him that there’d be “ no strings attached” -anti -agatirt ■b e iim a " fflW -’~ B ttr our relationship survived (just about) a poverty-stricken and paralysingly bofred winter in South Wales. A s T o m and the dole were supporting me, I didn’ t bother to get a job, I just lay in bed, generally atrophying, sometimes talking to the cat (w h o disappeared this summer, or, possibly, com m itted suicide), and I was carrying on a long, m onotonous and mutually distressing cold-war w ith m y nfother. T o m to o k to nagging and booze. Back in Lon don at Easter, thank

God, 1 had intense convert with various intelligent, peri and frustrated w om en — legal or h iply living together, w e ail'd plained o f the same things: (1 ) Being taken fo r granted and treated as an object, (2 ) N o t being talked to, (3 ) Being expected to do housework ( I realise I was disgustingly lazy and sluttish about this), (4 ) N o t being cuddled when w e wanted to, but (5) Being made to fee l gu ilty when­ ever w e didn’t respond to our men's sexual advances. 50 like an erotic plajngtKtg that I yell “ Stop The trouble is most w om en that fucking staring! ” at them — then I’ve met in the freak/politico scene feel cross w ith m yself because after talk about being liberated but never all it’s bad grammar and I should do much about it. M y divorced feel s on y fo r them . Once I beat a (and unfortunately em bittered) large Irish labourer about the head mother, and strong w illed grand­ with m y heavy shoulder bag because mother had brought me up to believe that marriage was undesirable o f this; he was amused and surprised at first, then a little scared b y my in fact unnecessary. "D o n 't yo u get virago-like appearance and savage dependent on a man” they said to Howsr -l k n ow it w a rch iftfeh rb trt ~ TOST Sd 5fTeaSf T didn 't g ro w up it made me feel great. Straight and thinking that as I had spotty skin often nonstraight guys are taken and no b oyfrien d I was a failure. aback when y o u show anger at what Nowadays it's still o ften quite a they feel is a com plim ent to your status sym bol to be som eone’s old sexuality; y o u ’re n et supposed to lady, to have som eone you can show displeasure at their admiration cook supper for, and generally keep o f your body, nor express anger house for. Y o u 'd better watch your which is an em otion that “ truly step or y o u ’ll start living like your tem inine” (fo r feminine read sub* mothers. Though I'm p retty self-confident missive, docile masculine-approvalseeking!) w om en aren’t even sup­ (som etim es!) I still fin d it hard to posed to fee l — Anger is "unlady­ walk dow n a street and be invited like” , a threat, just like it ’s a threat For a b it o f slap ’ n' tickle by — to his ego if instead o f faking an frequently repulsive — men who orgasm you yaw n in a man's face leer at m y breasts. Som etim es I get

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I guess yo u could say 1972 has been the year o f A lic e C oopei, and don 't be fo o le d b y my apparent reluctance to make such a statem ent T h e AC5 have loom ed large in m y land­ scape ever since I first stumbled on the superfine hardrock high­ lights o f L o v e It T o Death some IS months ago, and lemmetellya, I flipped when those ultra-vulgar drag-desperadoes brought it to life on the stage o f the Rainbow last November. Gim m ickry has seldom found itself in more capable hands, and if they understand media better than most, good luck! I f o n ly more groups w ould o w n up that they are ser­ vicing an industry, and do it w ith such style and professionalism It's ironic but typical that their weakest! album — S chool’ s O ut - should be their biggest seller. Still, even at their worst th ey’ve never been boring, and I await their next ven­ ture w ith high hopes. Before w e get into this random collection o f remarks fro m the b ottom o f m y heart and the top o f m y head, I should ow n up about in-built biases. I listen to a wide variety o f stuff, check out heaps o f groups, actively try to keep mind, and revise m y opinions tionally m onth b y month. For instance, I’ve seen Bowie tw ice this year and R o x y Music three times, and can’t stomach either at any price. In the same w ay that King Crimson used to leave me cold, if that makes sense. On the other fist, I ’ve been to six or eight Vinegar gigs and as many by Brinsley Schwarz. I f either o r b oth were as big by this tim e next year as Lindisfarne are now, there’d be at least one less surly rock w riter around. More specifically (1 ) I don’ t like people w ho take themselves too seriously and (2 ) I ’m n o t particu­ larly into lyrics, as I lo o k first for 90und, guts, musicianship and credi­ bility, and (3 ) I ’ve been convinced for a long tim e that whatever rockanroll is about, it's N O T about how many notes you can play. As a group these records have certain obvious characteristics, like th ey’re mostly Am erican and there are no girl singers. N o apologies. T h e selec­ tions are based o n ly on my evalu­ ation o f E N D U R IN G A R T IS T IC M E R IT IN T H E F A C E O F C O N ­ T IN U O U S P L A Y . I ’ve tried hard not to be loyal or wide-ranging or esoteric and I ’m happy that so many o f the artists

I most believe in have com e through w ith such superb music. Much o f the creative energies o f o ld favour­ ites like T ra ffic and the Grateful Dead have been diverted into interesting but inconclusive solo side-trips. T h e silence from P rocol Harum, too, has been a little long fo r com fort, though I gather Gary and the b oys are cooking up a new studio opus titled Grand H otel which should be w ith us soon or Soon. W ill they ever equal A Salty Dog? The album I ’ve listened to more than any oth er this year and the one which sends me into a para­ lytic trance o f adjective-choosing is M usic o f m y M in d b y Stevie Wonder. Stunning sound poems on the syn­ thesiser and w ondrously adven­ turous singing. I f y o u ’ve got an ounce o f romance in your b od y you can hardly fail to be thrilled by Superwoman, Seems So Lon g and I L o ve Every L ittle Thing A b ou t You. I thought I'd lost the capacity fo r total excitem ent at rock con­ certs until I caught the J. Geils Band at the Lyceum . The first number was a whiplash instrumental, then black-clad, heavily-moustached singer Peter W o lf leapt into action. It was wild, electrifying, and as it got crazier, a deranged chick dived onstage and fastened herself onto his twitching frame. I remember being colossally impressed b y the ferocious style w ith w hich he kept right on h ow ling until a pair o f roadies detached the hysterical madamoiselle : all this at 2.30 am and us fresh fro m A lic e Cooper at W em bley earlier that evening. W h oooooooh !!! So blasted was I b y their brand o f electric blues and mayhem that I kinda expected to be disappointed b y their Live : F u ll House LP. M em ory being the traitor it is, and alL But, no way. It scorches your ass like a flame­ thrower. t felt like rushing out in the street and yelling ‘ Listen to this! Listen to This! A in ’t this the Real T h in g!” A n d h o w smart to do a or. album set which leaves you g-a-s-p-i-n-g fo r more. Seeing the miraculous Jackson Five was another o f the year’ s big turn-ons. That kid M ichael is every­ thing y o u ’ve heard and maybe more: the most excitin g voice in pop music, poetry in motion, pure dynamite. T h e y are far bigger and better than most people realise, and i f you haven’t tumbled to it yet, treat yourself to the 14 songs on their Greatest Hits. I promise you w o n ’t regret i t

Illustration by Roger Hughes Com pared to most songwriters gets m y best also-ran-of-the-year Randy Newm an is fuckin’ profoun d, award. Catchy songs and lavish and his Sail Aw ay is highly recom ­ arrangements from the guvnor blue­ mended if you like masterpieces. eyed soul band. U ptow n expertise iVicious humour, but light and used to great effect. It's foolish to Californian, too. W ho else could com m ent that Jackson Browne, sing “ The Christians and the Jews w ill soon be a Force T o Be Rec­ were having a jamboree, the koned With, as anyone with ears Buddhists and the Hindus joined can tell he’ s already a Major Artist. on satellite T V ” . Short sharp songs His debut on Asylum is the most inform ed b y dark, bitter intelli­ engaging fusion o f words and gence, and d efin itely a taste w orth music to com e dow n the line in acquiring. many a moon, bulging w ith poise, The U S A must be teeming with devoid o f mannerism. I don’ t dozens o f useful country-rock expect him to camp around in groups getting nowhere fast, and 8 " platform boots and saucer-sized maybe to o many rock fans are as sun-goggles, and I bet there ain’t m o o ty as I was Defore I saw Poco. a songwriter alive w h o w ouldn’t be T w o groups distinguished by their proud to have w ritten R ock M e On knockout material are Eagles and T h e Water, D octor M y Eyes or Loggins and Messina. E veryone I've Jamaica Say Y o u Will. Apparently played the Eagles album to has he's put a band together to tour enthused especially girls. A punchy with him and play o n his next two-guitar quartet, m ercifully no record. A n obvious m ove but a wise steel, and infectious cocksure one. It's about the o n ly way he rhythm guitar fro m G lenn Frey. could give his excellent songs more Super production by G lyn Johns w id th and force. spotlights lovely harmonies which Van Morrison remains m y are never to o chic. Four o f the favourite living rock musician, and songs are incomparable, and the any o f his five albums on Warners rest ain’ t so d u ff y ou wish the four w ill repay many months o f close ■wore together so you didn’ t have listening. I've listened to St D o m i­ to turn the record over. A b ou t Take n ic ’s Preview morning, noon and 'It Easy, the single which should inight, more than anything else have been the biggest chart smash except Stevie Wonder, and its fire since Am erican Pie, R ollin g Stone and atmosphere continue to amaze. reviewer Bud Scoppa said it all. What jo ys await those just now Get a load o f those Jackson Browne discovering him. lyrics, especially the second verse. R od Stewart is an object lesson L ots o f the sparkle and polish o f in h o w to be a rock star and a humai S ittin ’ In is in the playing, but being at the same time, and like Don producer Jim m y Messina captures M cLean he's able to com bine good a razor-sharp sound. K en n y’ s sensi­ music w ith massive com mercial suc­ tive husky vocals enliven the gentler cess. His heartrending vocal perfor­ songs, especially the irresistably mance on In A Broken Dream was m elodic Danny's Song. R ocks like la reminder that R o d ’ s been good a bitch, delicious fid d le and sax 1fo r a lon g time, it’ s just taken the playing and very stylish in live masses a long tim e to pick up on concert. A lik ely contender fo r him. His records, like his stage act, fastest up-and-coming Am erican are an extension o f his footballgroup o f 1973. p layin’ , booze-lovin' guy-next-door I f you still haven’t bought R ock persona. His charm is his accessi­ o f Ages b y T h e Band, what are you b ility : you can relate to him. I ’ m waiting for? Seriously, it's the best still convinced N ever a D u ll M om en t live double album I ’ve ever "heard. is a better album than Every Picture: Billboard has it at N o 6 this week, ‘ ‘ I don’t object i f you call collect so at least the Am ericans can recog­ Cos I ain’ t forgettin ’ that you were nise magnificent music occasionally once mine even if Britain can’t. But I blew it w ithout even tryin ’ R ecently I w en t to the hair­ N o w I ’ m eatin’ m y heart out dressers, m y first trip in tw o years, tryna get a letter to yo u .” to have another haircut like R obbie Robertson. 1 was thinking about Sure, this is Maggie May, continued, this article, and whether the n otion but such is the stuff o f rock & roll, o f hip muzak is a contradiction in and be it ever thus. terms. What I'm tryin g to say is I'd M yles Palmer rather hear the Rascals at the salon N ovem b er 1972 than the interminable Tea F or The Tillerm an and Tum blew eed Connec­ tion. Their Island o f Real album

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A.J.Weberman,self-styled Dylanologist, collector of celebrity trash, garbartist, Miami Beach zippie and dethroner of Abbie Hoffman, has written for Oz his own interpretations of Ann Duncan’s painting series, Great Moments in Rock. His comments still have some of the old maniacal ring about them (see Oz 19) but reveal him as the perfect chronicler of those years of wasted time, the hippie sixties. The death of the ‘counter culture’ has found a prophet. F rom 1968-1970 I did nothing but put Dylan’ s p oetry under the m icroscope o f m y intellect trying to figure out what it all meant. I worshipped him at the time and saw m y role similar to that o f the ancient Talm udic Scholar or Cabalist attempting to decipher godgiven truth from what appeared to most as an arbitrary arrange­ ment o f words.... But when I found out m y .GOD was a junkie I was catapulted back into the present!! W hile I was going through this change A n n Duncan was putting the various metaphors I deciphered on canvas in the form o f an oilpainting titled DyJan S h ootin g Up - the first in her series called Great M om en ts in R o c k ....... In the upper right-hand corner o f the portrait B ob by is riding a "b ig w hite goose” through the sky. This is a pictorial representation o f the line "Saddle me up a big white goose / T ie me on / An d turn her loose” (C oun try Pie - Nashville Skyline). But what’ s this got to do with heroin? In order to find out w e've got to look at the line through the lens o f analytic criticism which entails figuring out exactly what Dylan means by a particular word b y digging how he uses it in all contexts. T o facilitate this I ’ve invented a com puterized Dylan W ord Concordance which gives me every w ord in his poetry (inc. Tarantula, liner, notes, etc.) in

alphabetical order along w ith a line o f context. "S a d d le " This w ord o n ly appears as a varb once throughout the b od y o f Dylan's p oetry (in this context) since all other references have it attached to “ bag” or "s id e ” (e.g. saddlebag, sidesaddle) so it’s probably n ot a sym b ol "m e u p ” 'U p ' appears about 100 times and is o ften linked to d o p e - “ Margrita the pusher wheeling a cartful o f Thursday up Damiams R o w ” "th e pleasures are fe w on chem ical isle, little girls hide perfum e up their shrimps” “ She s know n as horse chick up in Cheyanne” “ I need n oth in g fro m you — you are so much tied up in it though” ( n oth in g — ‘‘Maria I long fo r your nothingness” hypothesize 'heroin' fo r Maria) "T h e r e ’ s a hatchet (death) in Maria's makeup” “ he begins to shoot up the barbeque b eef signs” “ if anything drastic comes up take these p ills " “ It strangled up m y m in d " “ Som e­ thing is tearing up your m in d ". S o ‘saddle’ means 'make ready' & 'u p ' tells us drugs are involved. "a b ig " ‘b ig’ appears many times and is generally linked w ith dope “I am gazing into the big d ip p er" “ compared to the big day you find L o rd Byron sh ooting craps” “ tip in T o ro n to on the big d a y” “ So I shoot dope once in a while —

big deal” " L a y across my big brass bed / Stay lady stay while the night is still a head" “ I can’ t wait to s n iff that air if it’s sn uff I w o n 't have no care that big rockin chair..." (D ylan ghosting for Band) “ That big fat m oon is gonna shine like a sp oon ” ‘ Big’ is o ften linked with ‘ fa t’ another heroin symbol. D ig Open T h e D oor Homer “ T h ere’s a certain thing that I learned fro m m y friend Jim/ That h e’d always make sure I ’d understand” (literal) An d that is that there's a certain w ay a man must learn to swim (y o u 'v e go t to go along w ith the mainstream o f political thought and not be too radical) If you expect to live o ff the fat o f the land ( I f you want to be a superstar & use junk) Open the door Hom er (open people's minds, Dylan the poet) I heard it saud b efore but I ain't gonna hear it said no-more (h e ain't gonna do it an ym ore)”

Lo ck ed In A Prison O f Y o u r Own Device he advises virgins to ‘get it on' so they “ w o n ’ t miss (th eir) chance to swim in m ystery” and M oon ligh t Drive contains myriad sex-water metaphors — “ L et's swim to the m oon let's clim b through the tide / Penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to h ide” " L e t ’s swim out tonight love, it’ s our turn to fly / Parked beside the ocean on our m oonlight drive” "Surren­ der to the waking worlds that lap against our side” “ D ow n by the ocean side / Gonna get real close / Get real tight / C ’ mon baby gonna drown ton igh t” The inset in the upper righthand corner is the way Ann visua­ lised the lines ' Pead President’s corpse in the drivers car” (a genocidal maniac rules the land) “ The engine runs on glue and tar” (w h ose system uses organic material like the human flesh o f the Vietnamese as fuel) “ C 'm on along not goin very far / “ w h ite” G o in ’ East to meet the Czar” ih op "th e contem porary fix along black on the butcherwagon and join the winds and white Fridays” "six feast o f flesh as Ar.ierika heads for white horses that you did prom ise” internal totalitarianism) “ White heap sneezes, passes out and Yeah, Jim knew where the rips open A u tu m n 's gag" "w h ile swine who rule Am erika are at mothball woman, white, so sw eet" and that's w hy he tried to incite (see Marie under ‘up’ references kids to riot at his concerts, that's Sweet M arie) w hy the pigs maced him, that’ s w hy he was barred fro m so many “ goose" cities and that’s w h y the people “ Goose John Henry the Negro loved him.. m edicine man” "spray chancellor It’ s really tragic that a pow erful Erhard w ith goose fa t” symbol o f sexuality and life was ‘ big’, ‘w h ite’ and 'goose' are all destined to meet with a premature heroin linked words or heroin death. .1 really find it hard to symbols 'believe the dude had a heart-attack w hy was he buried a week before “ tie me o n " his demise was pu'ulically announce( This is ‘junk-slang’ pure and simple if not to avoid an autopsy? meaning ‘ tie a belt or string or Judging from the kind o f poetry necktie or gag around my arm so Jim was writing just b efore he died that m y veins w ill fill with blood & become better targets for my needle' “ and turn her lo o s e " “ tie " or a w ord linked to it often precedes ‘ turn’ &/or ‘ loose’ - “ Tie my shoelace and keep walking then I tu rn ” ( ‘ Shoelace is similar to ‘gag’ \e.g. ‘ Autum n’ s gag’) under ‘w h ite’ references and also in “ I ’ m fold in out my gag gonna turn you loose like an old caboose ('caboose' rhymes with ‘goose’ ) got a tail I need to drag (g o t a habit I have to support) so “ tie me on and turn her loose” means “ prepare me fo r a shot and let her rip - shoot me up Can you dig it? I f you do this to many other lines in Dylan’ s poetry the same thing happens — you find that fo r a long time Dylan was super-subtly (this is the key word) singing about junk....... The next w ork in this series, Jim M orrison's Cock, shows sex-symbol Jim keeping the customers satisfied in Miami Beach. In the upper left hand corner o f the painting there's a couple making love in the ocean. This illustrates Morrison's sex-water metaphor that appears throughout his poetry. F o r example in Horse Latitudes he w rote “ When the still sea” (w hen old people, no longer into making love) "C o n ­ spires an armour and their sullen & aborted currents breed tiny m on­ sters” (im plant distorted puritanical ideas in the minds o f the young) “ True sailing is dead” (uninhibited sexuality is made impossible). In

it was an overdose o f heroin that stopped his heart from beating. ... The story o f the Lizard King w ill continue to repeat itself as long as hip culture is treated as a product; cause when fam e and fortune severs an intense life-force like Morrison from the com m unity that nurtured and sustained him then surrounds him with greedy, ugly hip capitalist swine who kiss his ass & hustle him at the same time, there’ s nowhere to go and although one sweet dream came true, it lead on ly to endless flight, endless night, endless, endless, endless night....

The painting o f Janis Joplin 5 minutes after having O D 'd is another grim reminder o f what culture vultures do to people with talent. Janis was managed by hippy-hood & W oodstock Real Estate Baboon Alb ert Gross man who, if ya ask me, specialises in handling strung-out performers (Dylan, Paul Stokey o f Peter, Paul and Mary etc.). I bet he has a business card that reads “ Albert Grossman Management Associates We Supply Our Stars With Everything fame-moneygroupies-dope Cable S M A C K S T A R ”

Lately I ’ve been doing a little art­ work o f my ow n it's called A V E N G E JIM M O R R IS O N ! Garbart. Dig, after I got inter The next picture shows Ab b ie national exposure for my theories H offm an gettin hit on the head about Dylan by sorting through his by Peter Townsend o f T h e Who dustbins I gradually became addic­ at W oodstock w hile attempting to do a rap about political prisoner te d to his garbage! Since Bob beat John Sinclair. This was one o f the shit out o f me one day after his A b b ie ’ s better moves and I can jwife caught me in her can I had to only admire his courage. ,go on the M ethaDylan Maintenance Lately A b b ie’ s changed he's Garbage Program me so 1 started been calling o f f demonstrations he garbanalyzing the trash o f other hasn’ t organised (lik e the one N e w Y o rk C ity Piggies. Soon I during the Dem ocratic Convention began to realise that there's a mysin Miami) and has been branding jtical relationship between what the leaders o f the Zippies the someone throws away and what action faction o f the You th Inter­ they are and that as a garbologist national Party ‘ police agents’ , I could act as a medium and bring m yself included! What's worse, this to light! he’ s been using his access to the So I began to make collage media to tell people “ I t ’s the portraits o f people exclusively out wrong time for street demonstra­ o f their rubbish. At the left you tions’ while Am erika bombs North can see one I did o f John F. Ken­ Vietnam back to stone age! In nedy's advisor and speech writer, return fo r becoming a collaborator Arthur Schlesinger Jr. N otice the most o f the charges against him little pil 1-bottle - it was marked have been dropped at the G overn­ Dexamil 5 mgs. What a scandal ment’ s request and ten to one A rtie's a speedfreak! I also found he’ ll never do any time.. .. a note on Playboy stationery So aside from being a Great asking A rtie if he wanted 'Blanche' M om ent in Rock, what w e have as a 'baby-sitter'. ( I f he doesn’ t here is One O f A b b ie's Last Great I want her sfye can always com e over Moments.... and babysit on, I mean, for, m e!) In order to fully appreciate garbart you've g o t to understand the aesthetic principles that guide me I believe that art is every­ where and everything can be beautiful even Death (when it comes to those who are killing others or depriving them o f a decent life). 1 see beauty in irash, something many consider 'o be greasy, smelly & ugly. Ann seems to share this feeling since she sees it in the bizarre folklore o f rock culture exposed penis, fallen heroes, Billy Holliday Blues Singer Incarnations turned blue from the quiet sleep o f junk induced death, uptight egotistical superstars with no feeling for any­ one but themselves etc. I also believe that as Am erika piles the bodies higher, as she eats her w ay through the w o rld ’s wealth, artists have got to at least tell the w orld about it... if not actually go out there and stop it with our bodies, lives & force... Y o k o Ono, whom I respect, says ‘ K illing is such an artless act. People who kill most often become the next establishment after th ey’ve killed the o ld .” Although this has proven true in some cases (U S S R ) w e ’ve also got to remember that an automatic weapon can be the most beautiful piece o f sculpture in the world to a Vietnamese peasant. .. So everything, including art and beauty, is relative to where you look out at the w orld from and the dude who turned the Pieta into garbage as a protest “ Beauty in trash" — A.J.W eberman.gaibartist, reveals his p ortra it o f against the Catholic Church is an A rth u r Schlesinger Jnr. artist to o ....

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R A N D A L A R A B IE g r e a t m o m e n t s in r o c k

A b ove : Pete Townshend hitting A bbie H offm an over the head at W oodstock. R ig h t:

The Death o f Janis Joplin.

Below: Jim Morrison flashing his cock in Miami. Below r ig h t: Bob Dylan shooting up.

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