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No space - no tkpgiTOstory repeats it the wall giles October 31 o’clock the pm ll|L ’sJ(iis^deadline c words How does one for a magazine (dami ,e last five magazine) that has eaten^ es besides, years of my life, and a lot of ©tner peoj point of For many o f us, ‘working’ at OZ ;e between our daily existence. A hideous form 11 marriages humans and an inanimate concept. Anc the energy feedback remained a continual, terrifying, two way process with a dynamism an< that alternately sapped and sustained each partner, used and abused OZ for our own purposes, we hurled bodily from one editorial extreme to the other, we left it and came back to it a dozen times, we cursed it, passed it around and then grew jealous of it. We treated it like a baby and it kicked us in the teeth. We shat on it, spat on it and wasted it. And now that it’s an adolescent and leaving home, none o f us can believe it. The names of those specifically responsible for the production o f this last issue are listed below. For me to have included the names of the people whose collective energy nurtured OZ Magazine over the past six years would have literally taken pages. They know who they are. Some left happy, some left sadly. A few stamped into the night threatening vengance and jibbering like madmen. Many are still in touch. A couple are dead. All o f them deserve medals. It’s getting late and I’m not sure how to finish . . . history repeats itself. No space — no time. Felix Dennis. A proportion o f the profits o f this magazine will be paid to the liquidator o f OZ Publications Ink Ltd., for distribution amongst the creditors o f that Company.

Distribution Manager H ow ard Fraser Advertisement Director Jim Maguire Advertisement Manager Jann S co tt Reviews Editors Charles S haar M urray Dick Pountain American Bureau Jon G oodchild

Without Whose Help . . . Roger H utchinson, Chris Row ley, Jo n a th o n G reen, Phil Franks, Edw ard Barker, Maria, Jo h n Leaver, Pat W oolley, T ony E llio tt, S atty , Marva Rees, Jo h n Grissim, Eugene Schoenfeld, Denise Winn, A ndrew Fisher, M aybelle, M alcolm Livingstone, Bruce Saw ford, Jean Piuck, Da Bells, A nne H opkins, Derek W atson, T ony Pruim , Jo and V inny, Brian M oore, Insp. L u ff and Q uim by. D istributed b y M o o re-H am essL td .,3 1 C o rsica S treet, L ondon N51 JT. 01-359 4126. The centre spread pin-up is from the b o o k 100 Years o f E rotica by Paul A ratow , published by Straight Arrow B ooks, San Francisco. _________________

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Editor Felix Dennis Production Manager Dick P o untain Art Editor Richard Adams Assistant Editor Don A tyeo Typesetting/Art Production Caroline MacKechnie Jim Garfield

Illustration by Jim

THE LAST ISSUE OF OZ Published and copyright N ovem ber 1973 by: H. B unch Associates L td ., 39 G oodge Street, L ondon W1P 1FD 01-580-6104

‘He who fears change, fears life itself’—M arquis de Steppenville. I t ’s over half a year since w hat m ost o f y ou probably assum ed to be th e la st Oz (faithless bastards) appeared. O ur co h orts in th e AJtpress haven’t ju st sto o d still— h ere’s a sum m ary o f develop­ m ents on various fronts. Gay News, th e persistently excell­ en t fo rtn ightly fagrag, having ploughed along for m ore than a year o n hom e-m ade distri­ b u tio n , is now on th e MooreHamess circuit em ployed by IT, P ri vate E ye, an d this magazine. Michael Mason, GATs business manager, says th a t th e pap er’s aim, as always, is to ‘bring nom osexuality in to th e daylight’—and w ith a circulation tn a t’s grown from 4 ,000 to 18,500 in a year, th e y ain’t doing so badly . . . W ardour Mews, Soho, seedy hom e o f IT for th e last 18 m onths, was recently w itness to an o th er convulsion in th a t m agazine’s developm ent. With sales dropping and w inter com ing on, tn e sta ff decided to take som e tim e o ff and produce I T as a m onthly, w ith m ore pages and m ore tim e to w ork on them . This m ove necessi­ ta te d a hasty abandonm ent o f th eir gangster-owned prem ises and a scattering of eq u ipm ent like m anna am ongst friends across th e city . . . If you haven’t seen it yet, m ake sure you d o : F oul is th e very First alternative soccer magazine, and it ’s al­ ready achieved w hat w e’d considered impossible— exciting and honest sports journalism . . . Called in to revam p th e stagnant rock mag Cream,Ed B arker and Mick Farren were m ore th an a little p u t o u t w hen th eir first new -look issue was cancelled half way through printing. It seems th a t the publishers Plant News, whose m ain stock in trad e is O smond B rothers souvenirs and cut price tit mags (including the trad itio n al school boy jerk book H ealth and E fficiency), had suffered a N orth country bust on a selection o f their girly books. In th e ensuing panic th ey decided to kill th e entire Cream project feeling th a t th e last thing they need­ ed was Mick and E d ’s new

dope and sex fu n n y paper form at. F rom D e tro it’s effer­ vescent Creem magazine com es a genial renaissance o f alkiedom —T he Alice Cooper A lcohol C ookbook; a quaint conglom erate o f drink recipes provided by Ally & th e boys in th e band. Our particular favourites are B aby’s B lood (1 ounce lim e juice, 4 ounces Jam aica rum , & 2 dashes A ngostura bitters, shaken w ith finely cracked ice) and Tunafish M alted (fo r hangovers—1 can tunafish, 2 scoops pista­ chio ice cream , four ounces cream ). Mix & drink h eart­ ily until prepared to face 20,000 scream ing teenage maniacs . . . A nd, slightly nearer to hom e, news seeps dow n from th e em porial Grays In n R oad offices of Tim e O ut th a t th ey were recently visited by an eccen­ tric o ld lady anxious to fly to Chile and file reports on to talitarian atrocities. Her nam e was Mrs Fischer, and her son, th e World Chess Cham pion—n o t an individual noted for his liberal political views. ‘I d o n ’t have m uch to do w ith B obby’, q u o th Ma, ‘b u t h e’ll pay th e air fare . . .’ Wandering Jew Bob D ylan applied to a Kibbutz near Afula, Israel, and was reject­

ed for ‘p u b licity p roblem s’. U nshaken, th e H ibbing balladeer re-applied to K ibbutz D far Blum for places for Sarah, his wife, and th e kids. A t press tim e th ere was no w ord from D far Blum. By publication, o f course, it m ight n o t even e x i s t. . . Unless th e New Y ork jew ry h o t u p their efforts. On th e night th a t th e Israeli/A rab w ar b ro k e o u t, these gentlem en n etted 8 2 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 as co n trib u ­ tions to th e w ar e f f o r t . . . a sim ilar collection in Man­ chester som e days later gathered £ 1 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . Infla­ tio n ? D on’t know th e m eaning o f th e w ord . . . Y orkshire U nderground Press M agnate Jo h n W ilcock (O ther Scenes, Village Voice and Oz regular) has also been helping th e needy, w ith a £50 d o n atio n to ailing geria­ tric com ic Private E ye For its ‘fight against hypocrisy and lieing in F leet S tre e t’. It seems Wilcock—a one-tim e Mirror m an—was b u rn ed by his form er b ro th er hacks on a recen t deal to w rite five m ini­ colum ns fo r th e Inside Page follow ing a 25-year holiday in America. G rasping E ye ed ito r and am ateu r rapist R ichard Ingram s has th rea ten ­ ed to issue w rits against those suggesting th is new hack-

busting fu n d is to be used on wining an d dining his p o o fter public school chum s, m any o f w hom are p ro p rieto rs o f th e very new spapers to w hich Wilcock refers. Jo h n Wilcock is 83. R ichard Ingram s died last year o f cranial syphillis. A t a tim e w hen y o u th m arket p ublications are invading th e w orld o f p u b ­ lishing like th e black germs in A spirin ads, th e Reverend David A N oebel has chosen to o ffer th e w orld his ow n uniq u e perspective on such phenom ena as T he Beatles, Y o u th Com m unism , Mari­ juana an d Hair. ‘T h e Beatles— A S tu d y In Drugs, Sex And R evolution’ (w hat a title!), d istrib u ted and p rin te d by Christian Crusade Publica­ tions, Tulsa, p u ts JPG& R exactly w here we never knew th eir asses w ere—slap bang a t th e cyclone-centre o f C om m unist Insurgency. Well, w ho else w ould force upon th e gullible public such neo-Bolshevist sentim ents as ‘back in th e U SSR /Y ou d o n ’t kn o w ho w lucky you are’? . . . D elightfully British C om m ent o f th e Y ear Award goes to Colin S m ith o f th e Observer. S ent to cover th e Indian o ccu p atio n o f W ounded K nee, S o u th D akota, Mr Sm ith was overheard to co m m ent: ‘If only som eone w ould say, “ When th e m oon com es over th e m o u n tain and th e leaves fall o ff the trees on th e night w hen th e cherries tu rn red, we will attack th e long rifles” . All I hear is, “ Yeah, m an—cool i t . . . and w e’ll stu d y this p rocedural m a tte r later to n ig h t” .’ . . . P aranoia at Broadcasting H ouse runs high—news train ­ ees at th e BBC w ere in stru ct­ ed to m o n ito r every w ord u tte re d b y th e new ly launched com m ercial L ondon Broadcasting service on th eir first day o f transm iss­ ion. Working in half-hour shifts, th e em bryo R obin Days began at 6 am , and to o k com prehensive n o tes around th e clock . . . On th e subject o f p o tte d plants, T ow er Bridge was recently closed to traffic tw ice in on e day to allow a 3 0 ft plastic ru b b er p lan t to sail back and fo rth on th e prow o f a

pleasure boat. This event m arked th e sta rt o f a cam ­ paign to 'm ak e th e British m ore aw are o f th e pleasure p o tte d plants can bring’ . . . Air hostesses o n Q uantas airlines are to lose £1.75p a m o n th as a result o f the E qual R ights Bill. The m oney was a hairdressing allow ance w hich,according to Q uantas, ‘now discrim ina­ tes against m en stew ards’ . . . a survey recently m ade by a Los Angeles neurolo­ gist indicates th a t 8.8% o f m en and 17.5% o f w om en have difficulty telling their left h and from th e ir right w hen asked to identify th em quickly. C ould this explain th e odd case o f H arold Wilson? U nspeakably Chickenshit —th e revolutionary cosmic rock band, H aw kw ind, re­ quested U nited A rtists to w ithdraw th eir single Urban Guerilla from th e m arket, for fear th a t the general public m ight (m is) in te rp re t its title as being co nnected in any way w ith th e spate o f bom bings in London. R obert Calvert, co-author o f the song, said recently: ‘The w ords o f the song are n o t m eant to be tak en too literally. I t certainly isn’t advocating violence in the streets’. My w ord, Mr Calvert! We should hope n o t! . . . IPC fans will be h ea rt­ b roken to learn th a t this issue is th e p o o rer b y one feature and one review com m ission­ ed from th e NME’s profess­ ional punk and Lester Bangs im pressionist, N ick Kent. A pproached by o u r represen­ tatives, this young aesthete agreed to supply us w ith a feature on th e delights of D etro it and a review o f T. R ex’s ‘G reat H its’ album . However, he has been spend­ ing so m uch tim e playing Boswell to th e stoned mum blings o f K eith Richard th a t he n o t only d id n ’t tu rn in th e copy, b u t he d id n ’t even call us to say so. Super­ stardom is contagious. F u rth er excesses at IPC involve th e im m inent am al­ gam ation o f tw o sagging weeklies, Disc and M elody Maker, in to one even m ore boring giant w eekly to be edited by R ichard Williams. Since th e news leaked, a

These am using drawings o f E noch by R o y K nipe were originally com m issioned to illustrate a feature article on Powell in this issue. The article was to be a uthored by John L lo yd , ex-ink editor, ex-Time O ut editor and recent recruit to the official ranks o f the C om m unist Party. L lo yd , currently collecting a grossly inflated salary at L o n d o n Broadcasting (w ho isn’t these days?), finally turned in his piece tw o w eeks late, in tw o instal­ m ents, with a request th a t it be published under the curious p seudonym B ill Nicholas. We m ake no apologies fo r sparing Oz readers the tedious task o f reading it. B etw een them , C om m er­ cial Radio and the British B olsheviks appear to have addled the brain o f this form erly sensible Scot. . . . few o f th e less adequate staffers on bo th rags have been feeling rem arkably paranoid. The lucky ones get fired. NM E, cu rren tly well ahead, and M elody M aker have been em ploying consi­ derably different tactics in their running circulation b attle over th e last tw o years. N M E has em ployed over­ weight, ageing whiz-kid Charles Snaar M urray, the

distressing K ent and every o th e r ex-underground press hacks th e y can lay their hands on to im bue th eir pages w ith castrated outrage and o u td a te d u/g layouts, while MM have retreated into frenzied reactio n and feebly co n tem p tu o u s putdow ns o f everybody less tedious th an themselves. Readers need hard ly be rem inded th a t MM, N M E and

Disc are all ow ned by th e sam e com pany, IPC. Two T im o th y L eary Stories—D uring T im m y ’s six-week sojourn in V ienna he cam e across on e Izak H aber (o f O z/35 A bbie H offm an expose fam e). H aber, intro d u ced to Leary in th e course o f an extended acid p arty , fo r no accoun­ table reason h it th e refugee very h ard in th e face. Leary, w ith com m endable psyche­ delic cool, rose and left the room . H aber was last heard o f in Uganda, m aking a movie. The Life & Loves o f G eneral A m in? Leary, m eanw hile, co n tin u ed the trans-continental d rift th a t was to culm inate in his arrest in A fghanistan, and bum ped in to R ichard (Baba Ram Dass) A lpert in Sw itzer­ land. ‘R ich ard ’, co m m ented our affable m agician, ‘you seem to be getting gooder and gooder, w hile I get b adder and b ad d e r’. A lp ert’s (doubtless philosophical) rejoinder is n o t on record. A nd research scientists in Tel Aviv are getting very excited over a small flow er w hich th ey believe m ight be th e answer (?) to heroin addiction. Papaver Bracteatu m contains a drug called T hebaine, w hich can chem i­ cally be tran sfo rm ed in to n aloxone and n oltrexone, b o th know n to b e narcotic antagonist agents . . . The q u ain t fetishes o f T ory M inisters in Britain know no bounds. Polaroid snaps o f p ro stitu tes shitting on th e face o f C abinet M inisters were bad enough. R ecently, how ever, we hear th a t tw o high ranking governm ent officials have been engaged in an even m ore bizarre leisure tim e activity—Budgie Bashing. A pparently, these dem ented perverts are in th e habit of purchasing budgerigars fro m th e p e t d ep artm en t of Harrods. The hapless birds are stu ffed in th e toes of W ellington b o o ts and crushed to d eath during brisk m orning walks across Hyde Park. C hristine Keeler com e back—all is forgiven . . . S o m e o f this is by Roger H utchinson . . . the rest isn ’t.

‘Q. W ould y o u conclude this interview w ith an observation on the counterculture o f the "60's? I assume that it is less than a node, as y o u call it, o f the com ing reversal. A. No, i t ’s sim ply part o f the larger process, the m o st recent burst o f energy in the continuing struggle to create a real revolutionary culture. In its dem ise as a m ovem ent, it too m akes its insights to the battle a t large, and indeed som e aspects o f it (like this jo in t I am a bout to light) I adm ire very m uch. B u t it ju st can’t last in to the d ying light o f capitalism. I t takes m ore o f us than that, and m ore d iffere n t kinds o f u s ’. from An Interview w ith D onald Duck by David Wagner, Radical A m erica Vol7 N o l. The underground never even got a decent funeral. It is sim ply recorded th a t some­ thing th a t started o u t in a duffle-coat in th e direction o f A lderm aston pegged o u t in a back room full o f unsold com ic books and barbiturates. The real, unlikely people w ho, in pub room s and over duplicators and behind scaffolding stages m ade up a m ovem ent, have n o t been asked to co m m ent on the corpse. A new genera­ tio n o f groovers can’t see w hat all the fuss is about. A part from desultory cries of Bad D ope and Its The Pigs Again, there is no explanation, an alm ost self-induced am nesia. Which is a pity because no m ovem ent can begin again except out o f some understanding o f its ow n history. A nd th a t history is so personal and in­ tense it has becom e virtually psychiatry (psychiatrists being simply th e historians o f th e recent past) alone offering explana­ tions o f why earstw hile rebels decide to becom e sheepfarm ers, Stalinists, senior lecturers in Deviant Sociology, recluses, ‘rock w riters’, com m ercial radio hacks or live unhappily ever after in a groovy nuclear com m une in the country. The tru th o f th e m atter is n o t th a t TheLeaders-Sold-O ut or that-som ethinggreatly-beautious-grew -cankered, b u t th a t th e underground got smashed, good and p ro p er by exactly those forces o f w hich it stood in defiance. It was sm ashed because it could n o t, by 1968, be laughed at or ignored or patronised any longer. The underground was able to m ake really pain­ ful attacks on the system ’s intellectually based form s o f pow er. Of all the intellec­ tual p ro p erty speculators o f the 60’s, it m ade th e m ost sizeable incrusions in to capitalism ’s ideological real estate, the fam ily, school, work-discipline, th e ‘im­ p artial’ law courts and th e British Broad­ casting C orporation. U nlike previous m ovem ents of radical arties, it actually tran sm itted its m ood o f indiscipline to young people o f all classes. ‘It is an attack on fam ily life’, said

Inspector L uff at the Oz trial, quite right­ ly. The po p u larity o f O z’s atm osphere, (no m atter how incom prehensible and dow nright boring th e actual magazine) was, especially to w orking class kids, an index o f th e end o f decades o f post war deference, evidence o f a new refusal to any longer even p reten d lo y alty to the Q ueen, The Law and The Em pire. Already th e obscenity and dope trials o f the sixties look like light com edy com pared to the massive police o perations around th e Shrewsbury building w orkers’ con­ spiracy trial or th e W inchester bom bs trial. But they were the first om ens o f a new legal viciousness, the o p p o rtu n ity fo r the police to cu t th eir te eth and th e Special Branch to enlarge its files. T hey could take the Angry Y oung Men o u t to lunch, b u t the hairies had to go to jail. It was n o t the case th a t sufficient num bers were ever arrested to halt the m ovem ent and th a t governm ent-organised spies set ab o u t wrecking it, as u n d o u b te d ­ ly happened in th e late sixties in America. A nyone using the w ord repression about w hat happened to Oz and I T literally does n o t understand the m eaning o f the word. But the co m bination o f coppers on one hand, the liberal em brace and pam pered sensibilities o f th e groovier m erchant bankers, com m ercial nabobs and corporate im pressarios on th e o th er was deadly. The national papers o f th e underground had to exist in an alm ost w holly hostile world where survival alone, each issue, entailed an epic o f cheque-bouncing and bravado. They variously stum bled, victim s of th eir own cheerful apoliticism, in to a m ajor trial o f strength w ith the authorities sim ply for th e crim e o f n ot being hypocritical. The strain and worry and energy drain u tte rly d isorientated their editorial strength and trad itio n s and led to a situation w here th e papers ro ck et­ ed dow n hill in quality ju s t at a tim e w hen m ore people th an ever before were show­ ing an in terest in them . F o r although nom inally dem ocratic and open, the papers were so dep en d en t on a small im­ provising editorial aristocracy th a t the disappearance o f a single person at crucial stages could com pletely alter th e paper’s atm osphere. The u n stru ctu red , unpredictable pro­ d uction m ethods o f the underground papers, if focused outw ards and in con­ tact and in tru st w ith a m ovem ent, could produce rem arkable co m m itted jo u rn a­ lism (IT in th e acid heighday o f ’67, Black D w a rf afte r ’68, F rendz th ro u g h o u t th e Mangrove Trial and th e last 12 issues o iln k ) . But exactly th a t stru ctu re could becom e an office coterie b o u n d together only by a passion fo r self-prom otion and unabashed am bition, whilst th e general loyalty and openm indedness o f their readers was increasingly ex p lo ited by

Photo by Red Saunders.

w riters w ho prided them selves on their resem blances to th e L unchtim e O’Boozes’ au to m ated copy production, drunkenness and despair. This desperate hackishness was all the m ore pathetic in people w ho actually still had ideals, b u t sim ply could no longer find w ords fo r them . The beats had been evangelical, CND determ ined sane b u t desperate, th e U nderground capable o f great m oral w rath; the collapse in to plain old cynicism , the old­ est cru tc h in th e book, was a real full stop to a m ovem ent, how ever hard you tried to stick spangles to it and call it decadence. Increasingly, elem ents always jostling around in the underground, the love o f fashionable intercourse and the dependence o f th e good offices o f ad­ vertisers, becam e dom inant. I T becam e little m ore th an a m outhpiece for the

record com panies and, although rock reviews were th e only things taken seriously by m ost readers, th eir authors could scarcely conceal th eir ow n bore­ dom. This process o f defeat was com plicated, and often illustrated best, in cultural details. It is a fairly glum trib u te to the u nderground ’s struggle to be able to express yourself in the clothes you wear that such a co u n ter revolution has been effected by com m erce th a t anyone n o t dressed like a possum trap p er on stilts is trying to lo o k like a T ory tennis player o f th e late tw enties. It is a bizarre 15 years w hich starts w ith girls revolting against co u rt shoes and tw in-sets in favour of existentialist black sw eaters and jeans and ending up having to wear th em again. It is strange th a t th e system w o n ’t even leave ou r m em ories alone, so th a t people

are obliged to feel nostalgic over exper­ iences th ey never even had in the first place. It is a p ity th a t music (w hich alone makes it all w orthw hile) being m ade by English and A m erican m usicians now offers solely the ch oice betw een m ock u rban m enace (M ott, Bowie, R eed, half th e Stones) and a phony co u n trificatio n (o th er half of Stones plus everything else). It is q uite literally p ath etic th a t a move­ m ent succoured by cannabis and raised in electrifying affections o f acid should grow old jitterin g , crying and quarreling w ith itself on th e com ers o f G errard S treet or in a m andraxed haze at the back o f th e classroom . Marx, in a fo o tn o te to ‘Capital’ describes the opium trade as a revenge against im perialism . W hat m ore cunningly w rought revenge is possible th an fo r flow erchildren to w ind up C ontinued on page 66.

his year seven million tourists will com e to L ondon. You can see three m illion o f them any m orning in the A bbey, shuffling through like a bread queue, glumly absorbing the babble o f m isinform atio n p u t o u t by the coach guides. The o th e r fo u r m illion are in the Tower, stand ing in line for tw o hours to see th e Crown Jew els (though som etim es the queue to see th e E xecution Block and the axe is even longer, and w hat th a t says about hum an nature I’d rath er n o t think). In the aftern o o n they all change places, b u t in betw een tim es th e coaches herd them through the Changing o f the G uard, past th e Old Curiosity Shop (w hich isn’t) and over L ondon Bridge, w hich has been sold to the Americans. On Sundays all seven m illion swarm ro u n d to P etticoat Lane, w hich is this little secret place th e y ’ve heard about, where y ou know the stu ff isn’t stolen because you can see the dents where it fell o ff the back of the lorry. Most o f these visitors are Americans. Some o f them say to each other: ‘Shoot, M artha, le t’s do this E urope thing in style. L et’s hire ourselves a car and ju st take o f f ’. Then the husband steps outside th e hotel, takes one look at the London traffic, steps back inside the hotel and says: ‘Liss’n, M artha, why d on’t we just call up one o f these car-guides and relax ’. A nd the hall porter, who can scent fear at tw en ty paces like a buzzard, says: ‘I’ll organise th a t fo r y ou sir’. Hall porters are interesting. They have a club called The G olden Key, w hich is slightly m ore exclusive th an th e House of Lords and considerably less impoverished. Hall p o rters have little things going for themselves in th e fields o f car-hire, th eatre tickets, abortions, light ladies . . . and driver guides. So th e p o rter calls up and asks for a private car and a young guide to drive it. W hat th e visitors are after is a taste of old E urope, a w hiff o f decayed gentilesse; w hat they actually get is som e unem ploy­ able—an actor, stud en t, or a subversive underground playw right like myself. It m ay cost ten tim es as m uch as the coach to u r, but at least they can go to th e rest­ room w henever they like (this, inciden­ tally, doesn’t m ean they w ant to go and lie dow n). So one puts on the old school suit, the ancient tw eeds—a bit shabby amj shiny now you understand, b u t good quality once, like the Empire. And one holds the d o o r open for the wife w hich makes her feel secretly degenerate, b u t also: ‘Well, y o u should be doing th a t for me, W ilbur’. And you m ention ab o u t y o u r parents’ place in the country and w hich restau­ rants to avoid because th e y ’re such ro tte n to u rist traps and th ey ju st love y o u r accent. Then you explain th a t yo u haven’t got an accent, th e y ’ve got an accent; and they love th a t to o , only n o t quite so much. Thus are th e legions o f middle America, godly folk from A kron, Ohio and Fresno, Cal. Some o f them ju st w ant to buy som e­ one young to talk to, their ow n children having given u p at the age of fifteen: —‘Well I d on’t know , Ranald, I really d o n ’t know . We did everything we could for th a t boy didn’t wc Ranald, and then

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he ju st grew his hair long and he wears bell-botto m ed trousers and all we ever w anted was his happiness b u t he ju st goes around enjoying h im se lf. . . ’ So their hope is th a t E urope, at least, will understand them and appreciate their sacrifice. And the old w hore is willing to do one more tu rn fo r G I Joe, b u t n o t for chewing-gum and cigarettes this tim e. Still, they en ter generously into the spirit o f th e thing. Every dollar liberated over here affects th e American balance o f paym ents and weakens th eir econom y, b u t th ey seem to see in the piranha rapacity o f th e E uropeans some kind of vindication o f the capitalist system. I once w atched a Ju m b o 747 coasting in over Windsor Castle, clipping the Q ueen’s television aerials. The American w ith me was deeply moved. ‘Boy’, he tu rn ed to me, steel spectacles glinting, ‘look at th a t planeload o f people. Just th in k o f all th a t m o n ey ’. ‘We like it here’, th ey say as we streak along th e M4. ‘Y ou have so m uch trad i­ tion. Oh w ould you look at that. Isn’t th a t a shame. You w ouldn’t th in k th e y ’d allow th a t.’ That is a new housing estate, built by a L abour council. Yes, Lady. We w ould all rath er be living in rotting, peeling w arm -hearted Charles Dickens slums, or th atch ed and m ullioned T udor parsnip-lofts. We would prefer th at, be­ cause we have so m uch tradition. ‘A nd this is a trad itio n al English p u b ’. Here, traditionally, th e to u rists buy th e guide a drink. They decide to try y o u r English beer and bravely p ro 'e id In like it. No; all viaitois an. o puli c 'VIi r:

Philip of Spain cam e over here to m arry Mary T udor in 1554, he leapt o ff the ship crying ‘A sto u p o f English ale!’, drank it back, and threw up on the spot. So anyw ay they take a few un h ap p y sips and eat a sad cheese sandwich. This is where we get confidential. —‘Do you have a—u h —black problem here?’ —‘Oh yes, I say, pretending to mis­ understand. The blacks do ru n into problem s. They find it hard to get decent housing and jobs. Their children can have a tough tim e at school. And you may find this difficult to believe, b ut they som e­ tim es even run in to racial prejudice.’ - ‘Oh. (Pause). Do y o u have a - u h hip p y problem ?’ To m isunderstand all is to forgive all. N ot th a t y o u don’t get a few freaks, even in m iddle America. Whereas some w ould argue th a t th e w hole of middle Am erica is a gigantic m adhouse, 1 myself do n o t subscribe to th is view. Since the recent disclosures th e visitors have been m arkedly subdued. ‘This is the T raitors’ G ate’, I say at th e Tower, adding help­ fully: ‘I t’s original nam e was the W ater­ gate’. The wife giggles; th e husband gives a lifelike im itatio n o f a corpse. No, they are sadder b u t wiser o u t there in Boulder, Col. and Amarillo, Tex. The V ietnam war actually made them more aggressive ‘W luiddabout Ireland th e n ?’ th ey 'd snarl and anyway Her M ajesty's G overnm ent was happy to crawl up N ixon’s arsehole. The satu ratio n bom bing o f Cam bodia was, as sycophan­ tic T'-» ' !< r v .ri'rrs :ir :- tri'd for i . i I. it i in ih lei i e ( I

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dynam ic, careerist, w orking his balls o ff daily at A utom ated Ployfiber until he In su m m er th e y ’re e v e r y w h e re -th e m en in tangerine sports shirts a n d H R collapses at fifty-four w ith a coronary so th a t she can swan dow n to Miami H aldem an haircuts, th e w om en w ith b u tte rfly sunglasses a n d cracked make-up. Beach and lay it all on some suave young D ispossessed b y their children, drow ning under th e flo o d o f Watergate, th e y ’re the Cuban exile . . . Norm ally he keeps quiet legions o f M iddle A m erica, th e urban guerilla-ed, th e p ill h a p p y m illions w ho in o rd er n o t to appear a fool in fro n t o f p ro w l th e concrete p aths o f Stoneh en g e searching f o r new his wife, b u t ask him ab o u t his jo b and he starts u p, excited and grateful as a prep-school boy on a Sunday exeat. The o th e r ro m antic couples are the honeym ooners hoping to while away the long dark hours of daylight. They blink at the m em orials in th e A bbey, yaw n steadily ro u n d St Paul’s, the husband sighs at Anne B oleyn’s execution, the girl goes sparkle and coo at th e Crown Jewels, and I th in k we’ll finish early this aftern o o n . We visit S tratford. N ot m any of S trat­ fo rd ’s th ree million annual visitors have m uch interest in, or know ledge of, the Bard. One elderly man did shake me by reciting from m em ory the m ost inven­ tively obscene stanza o f Venus and A donis. His wife looked like she’d heard it before. But m ost o f them have no interest in Shakespeare, n o r do th ey even w ant to go to S tratford: w hat they w ant is to have been there and to prove it w ith the Zeiss Ikon colour slides and M om’s Instam atic prints and a few post­ cards ju st to be on the safe side. But the Works are a closed book to them . In this, they show a certain fine in­ stinct, for the first thing th a t Shakespeare did after he had given Anne three child­ ren was to take the road to L ondon. The lady who runs the little soft-drinks kiosk across the road from Anne H athaw ay’s co ttag e—now no d o u b t w intering in freedom and dem ocracy. But a little and hoped to gross a m illion in charitable B erm uda—says th a t up to fifty coaches a dom estic buggery is going to o far. donations to himself. day visit it in August. As th ey all leave So m iddle Am erica transferred its T hen there was the Latvian from Riga, L ondon at the same tim e, th ey all arrive hopes and dream s to Spiro Agnew, of who had fled from th e White Russians, the sim ultaneously. Two thousand people in w hom they used to speak in the same W ehrm acht, and th e Red Arm y. He a small Elizabethan cottage in high way th a t their com rades over here speak arrived in America in th e clothes he stood sum m er—th e m utable, rank-scented many, o f Enoch Powell: ‘I d o n ’t agree w ith him, up in, and now he was fleeing from as Will h ath it. No w onder he left tow n. m ind. But he says things th a t need say­ America. What he w anted was th e back At a m an’s back there are always the ing’. Now, how ever, it seems th a t Spiro country. We drove o ff m ain roads o n to wings o f th e Angel o f Disaster. Crashing is far from th e m ental defective th a t he m inor roads, o ff m inor roads o n to co untry th e car is difficult to pass o ff lightly—‘I appeared; has, indeed, been helping him ­ lanes, off co u n try lanes o n to places where did th a t deliberately so th a t y o u can get self to a large slice o f th e A m erican pie. there m ight once have been a packhorse to m eet one o f o u r splendid policem en T hey are m ourning fo r th eir lost lam b track in R om an tim es. His hands shook face to face’. G etting lost involves a loss in Boise, Idaho, tonight. And th e loud, continuously and m y driving isn’t th a t o f credibility—‘T here’s St Paul’s Cathe­ assertive attitu d e s o f A m ericans abroad bad. dral. Well, it was here yesterday. ’ You have disappeared. N ow they are very Eventually th ey screw them selves up can spend hours driving round the anxious to do th e right thing, the E urop­ to the inevitable. terraces o f South L ondon, streets of a ean thing. We have culture b u t no —‘Do y o u have a—u h —drug problem thousand tw itching curtains, looking for m oney, and they have m oney b u t no here?’ the Brighton road. . . ‘This is a short cut, culture; so we com e to an arrangem ent. —Oh, G od no, no p ro b lem ,’ I say reas­ n o t m any people know ab o u t i t ’. A ny­ One can tell th e really w eird ones suringly. ‘W hat can I get hold o f for you? one who has an XJ6 suddenly cu t across because they always w ant to visit Stone­ A little grass? A few dow ners, mandies, in fro n t at Hyde Park Corner could slam henge. When we get there, we find four coke? I m ust say y o u r lady wife looks as on the brakes, lean o u t of th e window , h undred F rench schoolchildren clim bing if she could use som e speed’. and scream ‘G et o f f the fu c k in g road y o u all over it eating ice-cream, w hich isn’t In th e driving m irror I see tw o middle shit-faced capitalist m aniac’, before q uite the red, blood-sacrifice, prehistoric A merican faces trying to force a smile. rem em bering the existence o f th e couple daw n they had in m ind. Instead they I t’s a horrible sight. in the back. There m ust be parties dining unload their paranoia on th e jo u rn ey back. A m ericans are very keen on gaining o ut nightly in St Louis on the terro rs of One m an asked me anxiously if there and im parting inform ation. There is no­ th eir L ondon holiday, the savagery and w asn’t a new c o n te m p t over here for thing I do n o t know a b o u t ru b b er tyres, greed o f th e natives. A m erican m oney, w hich is sort o f like roofing, or com pany law as related to the And som etim es one o f them makes a spitting on th e Q ueen M other besides shoe industry. Occasionally th ey even rem ark so unwise th a t it paralyses them being th e reverse o f th e tru th . A lady was tell you som ething useful, like a Canadian for th e rest o f th e day. Like the man a little w orried ab o u t h er husband: it who explained how he w rote his novels looking up at Edinburgh Castle: ‘T h at’s seemed he had discovered a cheap substi­ by shipping on a slow freighter, or the really a fine castle, b u t why did they tu te for alum inium , and th e alum inium Belgian journ alist w ho cond u cted me have to build it over th e railway statio n ?’ corporations were naturally trying to gravely rou n d the British Museum. Some­ His wife gives him the full oxy-acetylene, assassinate him. A nother m an was in to tim es one encounters th e A m erican the ‘w ait till I get you back in th e hotel hip spiritualism (‘The night I got through couple o f popular fiction: she, aloof, cool, b edroom ’ glare. to Jesus C hrist—wow, I really fla sh e d ’) m enthol-cigarette-sm oking; he, eager, I look u p at th e in tern atio n al sky. 11

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'A part fr o m A lic e ’s candle, the flashing neon advertising D irty E d n a ’s was th e o n ly light in the room . M o n k a n d Easy had been rapping fo r a t least 3 6 hours w ith the o n ly natural break com ing w hen th e y sneaked o u t to th e to ilet to sh o o t up m ore crysta l The k id in th e co w b o y h at was tracing th e red weals on B elinda’s naked back w ith his fingers. I was trapped b etw een th e cow ­ boy, th e speed frea ks and th e wall going on and o f f . . . ’ The overhead shook th e building as it shuddered past outside. A draw ing pin dropped o u t o f the p o ster o f A lbert Ein­ stein, and the to p left h and corner slowly curled and dropped. O utside in th e win­ dow th e red n eon sign th a t advertised D irty E dna’s flashed on and off, making the far wall change alternately from bloody red to dirty grey. A part from th e single candle th a t Alice was staring at, it was th e only source o f light for the whole room . T he stereo pum ped o u t Merle Haggard. The kid in th e cow boy h at sat hunched over it. He posed som ething o f a problem in th a t w henever anybody sug­ gested th a t it m ight be nice to hear som e­ thing o th e r th an co u n try music he threaten ed to fight them . N obody knew exactly w here h e’d com e from b u t no­ body quite liked to ask him ab o u t it. I w ould have left right th en , except I couldn’t find th e energy to move. I pulled th e little b o ttle of capsules o ut of my b o o t. T here w ere six left. T h ey ’d see me through th e rest o f th e night and probably m ost o f th e n ex t day. I had a vestigial idea th a t I o ught to pass th em round b u t I d idn’t see anyone else ab o u t to com e o u t w ith anything. I decided th e best thing to do w ould be to keep them to myself. It occurred to me th a t it w ould be am using if I stuffed a couple dow n th e kid in th e cow boy h at. The tro u b le was th a t I d idn’t really have the co-ordination fo r th a t k in d o f adventure, even th o u g h h e’d probably be b e tte r off lying in a foetal position o n the stairs th an lording it over th e stereo. The only alternative to th e co u n try music was to tu n e in to M onk and Easy. Their rap had been going on for at least thirty-six hours, w ith th e only natural breaks com ing w hen th ey sneaked o u t to th e to ilet to sh o o t up m ore crystal. They kept theirs to themselves, and I wasn’t ab o u t to negotiate an exchange for a couple o f m y capsules. It d idn’t stop me listening to th em , tho u g h , w hen th e pedal steel music got to be to o much. They had a th eo ry th a t speedfreaks ruled the world. ‘A nd th en there was K ennedy’. ‘Right, to o right’. ‘He had th is d o cto r’. ‘Sure, sure, cam e ro u n d every day. 0 1 . i. V- -

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show us all her bruises. We’d seen it before, except th e kid in the cow boy hat, th a t is. He’d probably get a kick o u t of it. He looked th e type. \l Ice stuck his th u m b s in his belt and v th ru st his hips forw ard. T he faggots on th e th ird floor were always trying to get to Ice. He had th a t kind o f fast-gun m achism o dow n to a fine art. He’d seen every one o f Sergio L eone’s movies at least three tim es. He turned slowly, scanning th e room , w atchful and ready to jum p. He lingered over the m irror that was propped against the wall betw een Alice and th e m attress. Ice always refused to have anything to do w ith the faggots from the third floor. He m ade th a t very clear, despite the fact th a t he hung round their landing a little to o m uch. Ice had paused long enough. It was his cue to speak. ‘W hat’s happening, hu h ?’ Nobody, answered. Ice’s voice was a fraction to o high for the rest o f his image. ‘I asked w hat’s happening’. Easy looked up w ith a jerk. ‘We were ju st talking ab o u t world pow er. A m phetam ine . . . ’ Easy rolled the w ord round his tongue. ‘. . . am phetam ine pow er. If y ou under­ stand w hat I’m talking ab o u t.’ Ice nodded. A fast tight n o d th a t I’d caught him rehearsing in th e bathroom . ‘I u n derstand’. He tu rn ed slowly to face th e kid in the cow boy hat. ‘Why all the co u n try m usic?’ The kid in the cow boy h at rose to a tense half crouch. ‘W hat’s w rong w ith country music, friend?’ There was a long silence w hile they tried to stare each oth er dow n. The wall flashed from grey and back to red. It was Ice w ho finally gave way. ‘N othing w rong w ith co u n try m u sic in the c o u n try ’. Before th e dram a could go any further, Belinda p u t her hand on Ice’s sleeve. ‘Do y ou have a cigarette?’ Ice pushed her away. ‘I’m clean o u t’. ‘You sure?’ He tu rn ed angrily on her. ‘Sure I’m sure. All y ou ever do is w ant things’. It was an o th er o f their games. We could all see the alm ost full pack o f Camels sticking o u t o f his shirt pocket. He tu rn ed his heel and slam m ed o u t of th e room . Even above Jo h n n y Cash we could hear this b oots going dow n the stairs. The kid in the cow boy h at clim bed to his feet and w ent over to Belinda. He pulled o u t a crum pled pack o f Luckies. ‘Do you w ant one o f these, ho n ey ?’ Belinda show ed her nice even te e th in a Marilyn M onroe smile. ‘Thank y ou very m uch’. The cow boy lit her cigarette for her. In th e flash, I was rem inded th a t Belinda was in fact quite pretty. She m ade a living fo r herself and Ice by m aking fuck films. She lost quite a lo t of w ork, though, because he left to o m any m arks on her. I suppose yo u could say som ething about all w ork and n o play. The overhead came th ro u g h again and the building shuddered. 14 Belinda w asted no tim e in asking fhe

kid in the cow boy hat w hether he w ant­ ed to see her bruises. Before he could even answer, she’d started to u n b u tto n her dress. I’d seen it so many tim es before I retreated behind my eyelids. If she kept him busy for a long tim e som ebody might be able to p u t on some different music. When I opened my eyes again I could see Belinda and the cow boy entw ined beside the stereo. Belinda appeared to be naked. The neon sign cam e on and con­ firm ed it. The kid still had his hat on. He was tracing th e red weals on her back w ith his fingers. ‘Why do you let him do it to you, honey?’ Belinda laughed her little squeaky laugh. ‘I don’t mind. I quite enjoy it really’. The neon w ent o ff and I w aited fo r the next episode. When it cam e back on again, the cow boy was licking his lips. ‘Would you let me do it?’ Belinda was outraged. ‘Listen buster, I d o n ’t hardly know y o u ’. The neon w ent o ff again. In the dark­ ness I could hear th e kid in the cow boy hat trying to placate her. ' ‘I’m sorry, sugar, I d idn’t m ean any harm ’. Belinda forgave him and th e neon came on. The cow boy grinned at her. ‘Want to see my gun?’ I thou g h t for a m om ent he was going to expose his Roy Rogers prick. It turned o u t that I was quite wrong. F rom the w aistband o f his jeans, he p roduced a m ean black snubnosed revolver. The red light w ent off, and I imagined how the gun m ust have been nestling behind his rodeo buckle all evening. It was fo rtu ­ nate th a t nobody had pressed th e point ab o u t the co u n try music. I eased m yself back into th e wall. It always m akes me nervous w hen kiddies start to play w ith guns. I couldn’t look at th e kid in th e cow ­ boy hat. I ju st d id n ’t w ant to know w hat he was doing w ith the gun. I sw itched m y atten tio n to Alice. She was still staring at th e candle, and th ere was no entertain m en t there. Even in th e m uted light there was nothing attractive about her plain, vacant little face. T hat left only Easy and Monk. They still squatted cross-legged like a pair o f jitterin g Buddhist monks. T hey’d transferred from previous w orld-w reckers to thenown dream s of pow er and grandeur. ‘All we got to do is get it together. T h at’s all we got to do’. ‘Right. We’ve only got to get it together’. ‘We could be rig h t there. R unning things, doing it. Telling people w hat to do. Y ou know w hat I m ean?’ They waved their hands at each other; fast jerks th a t cast shadows like darting bats o r black birds each tim e the neon flashed through th e windows. ‘All we need to do is jusl get started. Once we get started, got a few people behind as, we could sweep across the w orld’. ‘A whole legion o f us. Wave upon wave, driving everything in fro n t o f us’. ‘Right!’ Musi get il b tael her'.

‘R ight!’ Every so o ften , th e red light would catch their eyes. D em onic reflections w ould be th ro w n back. I was beginning to d rift in to th eir spiralling world. I caught m yself w ondering if it was me or them th a t was insane. I looked away. There v/as noth in g else to stare at but the wall. All th a t did was go on and off. Red Grey Red Grey Red Grey In th e n ex t red flash th e d o o r opened q uietly and a guy I’d never seen before slipped in carrying a b o ttle. He looked around for som eone to talk to. Easy and Monk were locked in to th eir plans for w orld dom ination, Alice was still trans­ fixed, while Belinda and the cow boy were pressing together on th e floor. T hat left only me. He sat down. ‘You seen Z orbo?’ Who the hell was Z orbo? I looked him straight in th e b o ttle and grinned. ‘Sure, h e le ft already’. The red to grey and back to red pause. I co n tin u ed to smile at th e b o ttle. I licked my lips and felt a b it like th e kid in th e cow boy hat. I wished I had a gun to show th e dude. A fter a while, he got th e point. ‘Uh . . . m aybe y o u ’d like a drink’. I grabbed it. ‘Sure w ould’. I to o k a generous swallow. It was cheap wine w hich tasted like it had been fortified w ith anti-freeze. I paused, to o k an o th er h it and passed it back to him. ‘T hanks’. T here was a pause while th e guy w ait­ ed for me to offer him som ething in retu rn . I decided n o t to be draw n and sat staring straight ahead, doing a passable im itatio n o f Alice. The overhead came through again and shook the building. The guy jerked. ‘What the luck was th at?' ‘O verhead’. ‘A ah’. ‘A nytim e’. •' . iid •'! i

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have a taste o f som ething you could lay on me. I m ean, do y o u ?’ F or one charitable instan t I thought ab o u t giving him one o f m y precious capsules, then I shook m y head. “It all w ent’. ‘T oo bad’. ‘Sorry’. His wine had n ’t been th a t good, and besides I’d had it. A fter a decent pause he got u p and slipped o u t o f th e door as quietly as he had com e in. Or, at least, he tried to . On the way he was hit by Miss Rene w ith a sailor in tow , and was alm ost knocked o ff his feet. Rene flashed him a super nova smile. ‘Sorry precious, I hardly saw y o u ’. The little guy fled dow n the stairs and Miss Rene sw ept in to th e room . ‘N othing going o n in here. You alm ost lo o k like y ou need dusting’. Rene was a strange creature. She had th e face and figure o f a starlet, b u t attach ed to her cro tch was a m iniaturised set o f male genitals. N obody was quite sure how she got th a t way. T he opposing theories were th a t, on one hand, she was a freak o f nature, while on the oth er she had once had a very expensive horm one jo b , b u t had run o u t o f m oney before she could get th e final piece o f surgery. She was wearing a blue m etallic sheath dress th a t flashed purple each tim e th e red n eon cam e on. I started to hallucinate w atching her. Over h er shoulders was a black leather B rando bike jack et, one o f th e double breasted kinds w ith lots of zips. Miss Rene had a strange talen t for m ixing h er sym bolism . The sailor sta rted to paw at her. He was very drunk. She shrieked, and punch­ ed him in th e face w ith a fistful o f rings. ‘D on’t to u c h the merchandise, Charlie!’ He reeled away, and th en stum bled ro u n d the room as though he was unsure o f w hat had h appened to him. A small trickle o f blood ran dow n his chin from a cu t on his lips. His vacant eyes fell on Alice. He sat dow n heavily beside her. ‘Hey honey, y ou look cu te’.

Alice co n tin u ed to stare unwaveringly at th e candle. A little pool o f wax was beginning to form on th e floor. The sailor leaned over and squeezed her breasts. ‘Believe in free love, do y o u babe? I believe in free love’. Alice’s gaze didn’t waver. Miss Rene looked on in disgust. The sailor began to slobber over th e fro n t of Alice’s D onald D uck T-shirt. Rene flounced tow ards th e door. ‘Well fuck you Jack !’ The door slam m ed behind her and her high heels clattered dow n the stairs. The sailor began to realise th a t m aybe he wasn’t going to get as far as he’d imagin­ ed. Alice might look com pletely relaxed, but we all knew th a t w hen she got in to th a t state she becam e as stiff as a board. He tried to push his hand dow n her jeans, b u t fo u n d th a t th e way she was sitting m ade it q uite impossible. He attem p ted to ease one o f h er legs o u t of the way, gently at first and th en using b o th hands. He discovered th a t even when he applied leverage, Alice’s thighs ju st w ouldn’t move. He rolled over on th e m attress and shook his head at her hunched, bony back. ‘Y ou o ught to see a d o cto r, h o n ey ’. She ignored him. He raised his voice to take in th e whole room . ‘This chick ought to see a d o c to r’. The w hole room ignored him . He com plained and m u ttered fo r a while, and th en began to get interested in M onk and Easy. He listened for a while and then fin e ly in te rru p te d th e ir flow. ‘Y ou fella’s planning som ething?’ Their heads flashed ro u n d , and they peered at him w ith speed-freak hostility. ‘We’re taking over’. ‘T aking over w hat?’ ‘The w orld, man. The w hole fucking planet’. ‘Y eah?’ ‘Y eah, all we got to do is get it to ­ gether.’ ‘Taking over th e world seems like a pretty tall order’. M onk dismissed th e sailor’s plebian view point w ith a fast chop o f his hand. ‘No problem , once we got it to g eth er’. Easy nodded. ‘We’d tell you ab o u t it only we d o n ’t have tim e right now ’. The sailor grinned w ith a dawning, doglike devotion. ‘Go ahead. Y ou d o n ’t m ind if I listen, do y o u ?’ ‘N ot if y o u d o n ’t in te rru p t’. ‘I w on’t say a w ord’. It seem ed as th o u g h Easy and M onk had claim ed th e ir first disciple. They w ent back to plotting. T he sailor sat on th e m attress w atching them , absorbing every w ord, his head turning from side to side like a sp ectato r at a tennis m atch. Across th e ro o m th ere was a flurry of m ovem ent. T he kid in th e cow boy h at had tak en tim e o u t from rubbing his pistol betw een Belinda’s legs fo r long enough to p u t on a T am m y W ynette album . It seem ed like a signal to M onk and Easy. They b o th leaped to th eir feet. ‘We got it!’ ‘Yeah! We got th e answ er’. I rested my head against th e wall. ‘T h a t’s w onderful’.

‘T h at’s the w ord, w onderful. We got th e answ er’. ‘Y ou w ant to hear th e answ er?’ I shrugged. ‘Sure, why n o t?’ ‘People’. ‘People?’ ‘Right, people’. ‘Y eah, people. We live o ff people’. I focussed on them . T he red light was reflected in th eir eyes. They looked like a couple of vam pires w ho’d ju st spied lunch. I to o k th e tim e to argue. ‘I th o u g h t we did th a t anyw ay’. ‘We go the whole w ay’. ‘No half measures’. ‘We catch people’. I was confused. ‘W hat do we do w hen we’ve caught th em ?’ They looked at me like I was a back­ ward child. I was at a disadvantage. T hey’d had thirty-six hours to build up to this. Easy spelled it out. ‘We process th em ’. ‘H unh?’ ‘Some bits we eat. Some bits we get stoned on . . . ’ ‘W hat?’ ‘T here’s all these glands’. Monk picked it up. ‘The adrenal gland, th e lym ph gland, the pineal gland, th e p itu itary . Y ou got to be able to get high on some o f those. Plus we eat th e flesh and m ake ornam ents o u t o f th e bones. We could even sell them . T here’s no tim e to delay’. I sat and boggled as th ey raced o u t of the room yelling. The sailor seem ed dis­ ap p o in ted th a t they h ad n ’t asked him to go w ith them . There was n o th in g to do b ut wait. The overhead cam e th ro u g h and shook th e buildings. Inside o f fifteen m inutes, they were back again. ‘We need help’. I shook my head. ‘I can’t m ove’. The sailor ju m p ed to his fee t and even th e cow boy seemed anxious to help. They all tro o p ed dow nstairs. A few m inutes later th ey were back, struggling w ith a lim p body. T hey d ro p p ed it on th e floor. Belinda squeaked. Alice didn’t move. I looked at it. It wasn’t th e best body I’d ever seen. Middle aged, unshaven, dirty, wearing a ta tte re d A rm y coat, jt looked like one o f th e bum s th ey regular­ ly tossed o u t o f D irty E dna’s. Easy and M onk stood over it triu m p h an tly . I th in k th ey w ould have liked to have their p h o to s taken. F o o t on neck, like big game hunters. We’d h ocked Alice’s Polaroid a long tim e earlier th o u g h , and it ju st w asn’t possible. Easy looked ro u n d th e room . ‘W hat we need is a kn ife’. The sailor, w ho seem ed so tak en w ith th e game th a t h e’d to tally fo rg o tten a b o u t Alice, pulled a large sw itchblade from o u t o f his coat. He o pened it w ith a snap. I shut m y eyes as th ey w ent to w ork. I couldn’t take any m ore. I could picture th e scene w hen th e cops burst in. T hen I th o u g h t ab o u t it. W ho’d miss an old bum , it m ight be okay after all. Provided they d idn’t go crazy. A nd w ho could tell, there m ight be som e good stu ff in those glands. The overhead came th ro u g h and shook th e building.

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artists, I suppose, a p an th eo n w hich in ­ cludes such cham eleons as A bbie H off­ man, Jerry R ubin and the b eau tifu l Isak Haber. Isak, o f ‘How Abbie H offm an Stole “ Steal This Book’” and th e guy whc hit T im o th y Leary fame, had been going to w ork th e p u p p ets w ith A dam , b u t had decided to retu rn to the S tates instead. A dam was scarcely more fam iliar w ith the role o f public en tertain er th an I was, his experience being m ostly as a m athe­ m atician from Princeton. G rotesque in appearance, a fo u rteen stone fa tty w ho w ore heavy glasses w ith lenses like th e b o tto m o f m ilk bottles, he was a gargan­ tu an bearded V andal ham m ering at the gates o f civilisation. On perform ance days ne w alked ab o u t A m sterdam beam ing benignly in a w hite boiler suit tracked w ith flashing electric light bulbs w hich lit up in lines around his genitals, dow n his back to his arse and circled his tits. ‘The m ore conspicuous I am, th e greater my sense o f freedom . People give m e room to m ove’, he said. ‘G ood fo r business to o ’. I had never associated being conspicuous w ith peace o f m ind before, and th e re ­ m ark sank in. He had started up the Cosmic N om ads in V ienna only a few weeks before, and had b ro u g h t them to A m sterdam for the sum m er season, ju st as Frankie H owerd or Inter-A ction m ight do July on th e pier The heart-rending story o f a redundant Oz editor, who left at W eston-Super-M are. F ritz th e Cat may a steady job as a hack writer in London to spend summer as a fart have been th e first publicly show n car­ behind the Fucking Puppets o f Vienna. to o n w ith explicit sex, b u t th e Cosmic N om ads was the first Punch and Ju d y Cabaret/JIM ANDERSON show w ith fucking nuns. Adam was a m an w ith a m essag e-'m o re orgasm s’- a n d th e only place I got to this sum m er, so it 'Travel narrow s th e m ind and broadens th e pu p p ets w ere a simple m eth o d o f p u t­ has to do. N aturally this has been a very the arse’, G eorge Greaves, an old jo u rn a­ ting across some rath er heavy sexual difficult article to write. list friend o f m ine in Tangier was fond of liberation proselytising. saying. I’m sure now th a t he had in m ind I w ent to A m sterdam m ostly for a holi­ the wear and tear on y o u r backside pro ­ He had ab o u t a dozen glove p uppets day, b u t also perhaps to get involved in duced by camel saddles in the Sahara or w ith bright, carefully made clothes and som ething o th e r th an magazines or w rit­ the w ooden seats in jolting G reek m oun­ shiny, w ell-delineated painted heads. ing, w hich fo r years has occupied far too T here was a Mary W hitehouse m o th er tain buses, b u t in th e m id-sixties, when I was finding England oppressive to me as a m uch o f m y tim e in L ondon. I had in figure, an alcoholic father, a long-haired m ind a travelling tro u p e o f actors, dancers girl, a short-haired boy, a priest, a couple gay person, I assumed th a t he was refer­ or acrobats, b u t as I had n o t perform ed ring to m y old fear th a t getting fucked in o f nuns, a cosm ic guru, a black m an, and publicly (at least by choice) in any way tw o or th ree all-purpose pu p p ets w ith the arse w ould m ake it expand like a since m y inn o cen t pre-pubertal days as a ripening cauliflow er. F o r m y em otional p rom inent noses, bald heads, double child star in such charm ers as T oad of and sexual well-being I had to get o u t o f chins and bad vibes w hich could be used T oad Hall, I needed som ething sim ple to L ondon, b u t at the same tim e I d idn’t fo r psychiatrists, politicians, p ro p erty start w ith.I th o u g h t longingly o f approa­ w ant to have a big bum , so w hen I did developers and o th e r wicked types ching Hibiscus and Angel Jack w ho were h it the road, I restricted m yself to active starting w ith ‘p’. His props were uncom there from San Francisco w ith The p en etration, fellatio and m utual m astur­ p lic a te d -a bed, a to ilet, a bath , a table, Angels o f Light in a show o f b reathtaking bation. A few weeks in dow ntow n Cairo, a telly, and an indoor and o u td o o r back­ however, brought hom e to me the absurd­ b a n a lity -in c o n se q u en tia l n u d ity , dope, drop. costum e changes, and old Broadw ay songs ity o f this attitu d e. I threw m y virginity Each o f th e m ale pu p p ets had a hole like ‘We’ll Build A Stairw ay to Paradise’ to th e w inds and resigned m yself to in his trousers fo r a piece o f ru b b er sung o u t o f tu n e by m ixed choruses of larger trousers. O f course, th e only thing tubing, w hich could be m ade, w hen the voices full o f sw eetness and light w ith o u t p lo t required orgasm, to p ro tru d e and th a t expanded was my sense o f pleasure any instrum en tal accom panim ent. It was squirt w ater over the audience by squeez­ and aw areness o f myself: the absurdity a cross betw een the G arden o f E den and ing a ru b b er ball, w hich we usually rem em ­ o f y e t an o th er o f th e ideas planted in my bered to fill before each perform ance. head by teachers and fam ily becam e clear. Busby Berkeley, and th eir en tire budget was obviously spent on tinsel and glitter. Ever since, travel has been sexually Each o f the fem ale p uppets had an W atching th e show I felt like a rab b it in liberating for m e -b ro a d e n in g b o th m ind electric light, representing a c u n t, set (never did w ork o u t w hat the first p art of th e headlights o f a car, so bedazzled I had in to th e fro n t o f h er dress, w hich could to give up any th o u g h t o f participation. the phrase m eant) and arse, if you like. be m ade to signify sexual arousal by T here were dozens o f o th e r groups A n o th er good reason for travel is th a t it flicking a transistor b attery sw itch, o per­ playing the hippie circuit and th e parks, rem oves a w riting block th a t I have. I can ated by w h o ev e r-m e , Adam, or K athy som etim es as part o f the H olland Festival, his assista n t-w a s m anipulating th a t em ploy th e fiction th a t if I w rite about b u t it wasn’t u n til A dam Lysow ski and som ew here far enough away from the particular puppet. his V iennese Sex Puppets, or as he had Every day we carried th e th e a tre fold­ place w here my article will be published, m ore m odestly painted on his six-feetfew er people will notice w hat bullshit I ed up in a tin tru n k through th e streets am w riting because few er people will be wide canvas stage fro n t ‘T he Cosmic to th e V ondelpark, where we set it up able to pick up on the m istakes. On th a t N om ads’, arrived in to w n th a t I realised by th e first lake. K athy w ould recruit a basis, A m sterdam is a very p o o r substitute at last th a t here was som ething I could few musicians from the plastic ground for O uter M ongolia, w hat w ith the Com ­ w ork w ith. sheet and sleeping bag encam pm ents A dam was one of the in tern atio n al m on M arket and it being only a few u n d er the trees, and when an audience Jewish yippie m afia, quick-change cheap hours away and all th a t, but it was had been attracted by the bongos or

w hatever, she would do a belly dance she had learned in Tunisia to warm them up. N othing was ever happening in the park and it»was easy to trap a large crow d, mostly, teenybop freaks and park hippies, b ut a selection of D utch m atrons and G erm an tourists w ith their children as well. The police checked up on us as we were setting up the first tim e. We had no licence, but on being told th a t it was ‘puppets, you know , for kids’, they gave big smiles and w ent away. A dam ’s main targets were the perni­ cious teaching o f th e R om an Catholic Church and th e Jesuits, the evils o f sexual repression and censorship, and the hypo­ crisy o f the V ictorians and their succe­ ssors. He extolled the delights o f fucking and shitting and m ade m ock o f prudish Anglo-Saxon attitu d e s in these more than potentially enjoyable areas. My first co n trib u tio n to his theatre was back stage, making farting and evacuation noises, as Adam m anipulated his puppetpriest on the to ilet seat, while bellowing o u t a long m onologue on the pleasures of a good crap. It was excellent therapy for me too, w ho has suffered em barrass­ m ent at having to shit, hung over a rail, in public at pop festivals. This parti­ cular sketch was always very popular, arousing great guffaws and the occasional participatory fart, from any audience. There was usually interest too in the new use being made o f an old am usem ent device, even if they were to o doped to be conscious o f any sexual problem s themselves except perhaps that o f impotency. Adam had grow n tired o f th e lim ita­ tions o f his repertoire and was anxious to upgrade his m aterial. A fter a discuss­ ion we came up w ith a sketch entitled The D eath o f Janis Joplin, the Rise and Fall o f a Superstar. U nfortunately, m uch as we liked Janis, neither o f us knew m uch ab o u t her history, and having no tim e to make new puppets, we had to weave the story around those we had. Her tragedy, as perform ed the n ex t day, w ent som ething like this: Janis Joplin (related th e Cosmic Guru)) was b o m in a sm all Texas tow n and dis­ played a rebellious to m b o y disposition even fro m th e cradle. She loved singing and when she war fo u rtee n started run­ ning around with a bunch o f local m usic­ ians, one o f w hom became her childhood sw e e th e a rt-J im i Hendrix (so we could use the black puppet). In the opening scene, her m oth er (Mrs W hitehouse) catches Janis in the bath singing the K o zm ic Blues (we had it on tape) a n d whacking off. M um gives her a rundow n on the evils o f m asturbation, then sends her in to her fa th e r fo r a beating. D runken dad takes o f his trouser belt, beats her, then fu c k s her. She runs to th e priest fo r help. He listens lasciviously to her troubles, then fu c k s her. She runs to her childhood sw eetheart, w ho consoles her, then fu c k s her. (L o ts o f play here with the rubber tubing and th e electric light bulbs). He says: 'Marry m e and join the b a n d S h e says: 'Y o u ’re ju st a no-good hom e-tow n g u itarist’. splits fo r th e coast and the big tim e and breaks his heart, She fu c k s her way through producers and prom oters to the top, where she remains fo r a short time, the glitteriest and m o st glam orous rock star o f them all,

beseiged b y reporters, photographers and the church aisles in order to bring back *' groupies. L ife at th e to p becom es lonely, th e congregations, b u t 1 th o u g h t th at drugs replace her love life and she spurns the Milky Way would w ork m uch better, a last m in u te rescue a tte m p t b y J im l who be less dull, if facilities for fucking were arrives in L os A ngeles to bring her back added to it, 1 imagined a couple o f warm home. She dies in a spectacular blue-lit steam ing pools like natural therm al scene on a m o te l bed, a b o ttle o f S o u th ­ springs, fountains in the vapour, music, ern C om fo rt in one hand, a hyp o d erm ic soft lights and nakedness, colour telly and in the other. The Cosmic Guru reappears dope, som e tropical foliage and o p en to to in to n e a euolgy, placing the blam e fo r the sky on h o t sum m er nights. A hippie her death squarely on the nuclear fa m ily love tem ple w ith a R o b ert Crum b fuckand the mores O f a puritanical sexually in and orgy-riot whenever com m unal repressed redneck society. A n d the passion escaped from its box. Church. (Adam alw ays had it in fo r the The Vienna Sex P uppets evening at church). the Milky Way turned in to a Joplin rock So m uch for accuracy in th e rapacious m em orial service. Bill Levy from S u ck p ath o f creative endeavour. We did a Magazine (like O z, a final issue will be trial run in the V ondelpark and on the o u t by the end o f the year) lent us tw o strength o f th a t got a booking for the cartoons w hich could have com e o u t of Milky Way a couple o f nights later. \ was U nca Walt’s personal collection and in show-business. were originally shown at the Wet Dream I was dim ly aware th a t Janis Joplin’s Festival. Janis herself had d oubtful sex life was m ore th an fucking producers drawing pow er (she was as rem ote as and drunkenly dragging guys o ff the Bessie Sm ith to a good half o f th e crow d), street into her car a t the lights. Her b u t from the m inute th a t Hansel and sw eetheart was a girl rather th an a boy, G retel flickered on the waLt, billed as a and it would have been no tro u b le to be Janis Joplin m asturbation fantasy, a correct for once and included som e sexual w hisper floated around the club tender lesbian love scenes. B ut I was and the room was com pletely filled. vaguely em barrassed (em barrassm ent, Piece o f My Heart was blasted o u t over the curse of the middle classes) by my th e loudspeakers, th e n a spotlight played ow n gayness, as indeed I had been th e o n K athy as she did her belly dance, previous day when 1 had chickened o ut o f announcing it this tim e as Janis Jo p lin ’s doing a gay liberation sketch I had pre­ Dream o f Paradise. By the tim e the pared. 1 was overcom e by shyness, n o t p u p p et dram a itself got going, it was simple Bambi stuff, b u t self-oppressive alm ost lost in the sideshows and preten­ tim idity. Had th at heavy d u ty d one w ith sions o f a m am m oth production, G L F at th e L o n d o n School o f Econom ics K athy m ade Janis in to a real tough and All Saints Hall been all to no avail? cookie o f a pu p p et, and 1, feverishly Would [ no longer be able to ask fo r Gay w orking away as h er m o th er, father and N ew s at m y local new sagent? Was it tim e boyfriend, felt she came over as a pushy for electro-shock trea tm e n t as my only b itch w ho deserved everything she got. Me solution? I decided rath e r hastily th a t it and B obby McGee, played at th e end as was ju st natural nervousness a t perform ­ an accom panim ent to th e second o f th e ing in public, even in such a friendly cartoons, Snow White and the Seven m edium as a p u p p et th eatre, an d n o t Dwarfs w hich was billed as Janis Jo p lin ’s som ething as anti-revolutionary as a lack Vision o f Life A fter Death, restored a o f gay conviction. As A dam had pointed sense o f sorrow how ever, and th ere was o u t patien tly , I was a very h ot and som e enthusiastic clapping. Even as Prince bothered perform er. My co-ordination Charming was fucking Snow W hite back was bad and I w ould get excited and find to life, jo in ts w ere being Lit, chillum s m yself unable to do m ore th an one thing were being prepared, and Janis Joplin at a tim e. Life ran along far to o quickly was drifting back in to oblivion. in the p u p p et w orld for m y fat fingers, So m uch for showbiz, 1 le ft A m ster­ which had to w ork frantically to keep dam shortly afterw ards. The V ienna Sex pace with changes o f props and chara­ P uppets got o th er bookings, A dam got cters. Voices to sw itch to falsetto, tapes a n o th er helper, and began w ork on an to play, glitter to be throw n for th e even m ore am b itio u s p r o je c t-T h e His­ M onterey Festival scene, cobks to squirt, to ry of Acid, the Life and Tim es of cunts to flash, and I tended n o t to realise T im o th y L e a ry -b ased on his experiences that I was com pulsively making puppets w ith Leary in V ienna during th e six com e and sw itching ilght bulbs on and weeks the acid gangster spent there be­ o ff long after the story had moved else­ fore h e inadvisedly left for A fghanistan where. and in stan t arrest. The Milky Way is a club in an old When Adam com es to London and w arehouse o n a canal ju st o ff th e Leidsedoes his version o f T he Oz Trial, i will pian w ith a large, com fortable area for have fu rth er o p p o rtu n ity to exorcise w atching m ovies or video, an o th er for som e o f m y sexual devils. When th at eating, ano th er for tea and conversation, o th e r Mr Leary, th e prosecutor a t the and a main room for loitering o r lolling trial, asks: ‘Do y o u find th e male organ about, listening to music, dancing if attractive, Mr A nderson?’ I will be able anyone can be bo th ered , w atching o th ers to reply, ‘I think it’s very beautiful, Mr do their n u m b er and being passively Leary, d o n ’t y o u ?’ instead o f th e to r­ entertained by events like th e Cosmic tu o u s answer 1 did give, w hich was ‘1 N omads. This room has a large, raised th in k it’s a perfectly natural p art o f th e central platform w ith w ooden pillars hum an an atom y, Mr Leary’. at the corners, and has a medieval air We already have ju st the pup p et for about it, rem iniscent o f M arrakech rather the p ro se c u to r-h e is a sitter for one of than north ern Europe. those left over ones w ith the bald head Organising sex for th e love generation and the double chin, used for wicked is rath er like introducing rock groups into ty p es starting w ith ‘p’.

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was ‘the party o f th e centre’, th a t they w ant a united E uropean Arm y and h o ped Britain w ould join w ith E urope and the w hite Com m onw ealth to create a th ird m ajor pow er, th e o th e r tw o being America and Russia. China, now here. A ction also has a novel interpretation o f th e recent killings o f A frican minew orkers in South Africa: the police were actually defending o th er A frican workers. But in view o f their debts and th e fact th a t hardly anyone seems to have heard o f them , A ction does seem to be som e­ thing o f a Mickey Mouse in b oots operation, Mosley’s party alm ost over w ith all its p retty balloons burst. The same can’t be said o f the N ational F ro nt, recently in the new s w hen one of th eir new m em bers, Roy Painter, was rem oved from the Board o f G overnors o f Som erset Com prehensive School in T o ttenham . This was w elcom ed by the N F activities organiser, th e obese Martin W ebster, because ‘it will tend to polarise things and where things polarise, we do b e tte r’. Mr W ebster should know . Since he atten d ed th e N ational Socialists’ rally in Trafalgar Square in 1962 he has be­ com e a leading F ro n t figure in polarisa­ tion o f opinion on th e racial issues, and

polled 4,789 votes at th e West Brom w ich by-election in May. While th e A ction P arty have to con­ te n t themselves w ith try in g to persuade local libraries to take th eir new spaper and asking for funds, th e N F have been fighting elections and are to p u t up at least 50 candidates a t th e n ex t General Election; w hich would seem to be about th e best reason fo r making it to the polling b o o th s since 1945. A t th e mo­ m ent the effect o f th eir electioneering is to cu t th e T ory vote, b ut th e size of som e o f the tu m -o u ts-b u sin e ssm a n Jo h n C lifton picked u p 3 ,000 votes at Uxbridge earlier this y e a r-sh o w s th a t th ey have the organisation to m ake in­ roads in to local councils, w here they could do a considerable am o u n t of damage. They, to o , do a lo t of leafletting, m ost recently in Harringey, Brixton, Hounslow and B rentford where small stickers distributed from their Croydon headquarters claim ‘N ational F ro n t puts Britain firs t-S to p Im m igration, Start R epatriation? Jo h n Tyndall, th e m an w ho now leads th e F ro n t, is a form er m em ber o f th e League o f Em pire Loyalists which was form ed in 1954 by A K C hesterton, second cousin to th e a u th o r G K. Tyndall

split from them in 1958 to set up the N ational L abour Party w ith Jo h n Beam, ano th er leading F ro n t m em ber, and appeared in a charm ing D aily Herald p h o to in 1962, carrying a sw astika b anner at a N ational Socialist cam p in the Cotswolds. I atten d ed th eir conference at the Conway Hall in O ctober and w atched Tyndall on th e Union Jack-bedecked platform delivering a call to arm s based on ‘th e spirit an d th e genius o f this race, living on proud and d efian t’. The w ord ‘race’ had a positively Pavlovian effect on th e delegates, producing im m ediate cries o f ‘Yes, yes’ and m uch hand-clapping. I h ate to fall back on such a tired com parison as wee A dolf, b ut really T yndall’s stru ttin g hyperbole ‘soon we shall hear the sounds o f m arch­ ing colum ns . . . the skyline will be red w hite and blue . . . we have th e greatest fighters in th e c o u n try ’—was so much o f a crib o f H itler th a t I’m surprised he doesn’t com e o u t of his b u n k er and sue for breach of copyright. B ut perhaps th e saddest aspect o f th e conference was w atching the police and th e N F heavies sw apping anecdotes ab o u t how they dealt w ith lefty dem onstrators. I’d like to send a free holiday on th e Black Sea to th e gallant photographer who quietly w histled the Internationale th ro u g h o u t T yndall’s closing remarks. The F ro n t have tak en away m uch of th e muscle from th e M onday Club which, at its peak in 1971, could claim 34 T ory MPs and 35 Peers in its ranks. Now it is suffering an ideological heam orrage, gleefully catalogued by th e press, be­ cause o f the refusal o f chairm an Jo n a th o n G u in n e s s-T t’s w hat your right wing’s for’- t o resign. G uinness and his supporters are considered soft and th e expulsion o f th e Essex b ran ch o f the club for th e election su p p o rt th ey gave a local F ro n t candidate caused fu rth er rifts in th e Club. Guinness has duly paid th e penalty fo r being a softy by being dropped by his con stitu en cy in Lincoln as th eir candidate in th e n ex t election. By th eir increasingly o btuse behaviour, th e M onday Club m em bers have becom e an em barrassm ent to m any o f their parliam entary colleagues and only a handful o f T ory MPs rem ain w ith them , although those w ith strong ties include our old friend G eoff R ippon, Julian Amery and form er M inister o f T ransport, Jo h n Peyton. But one of the form er m em bers, George Young, who lost the chairm anship battle w ith G uinness on April 3 0 th , has used the Club as a spring­ board to fu rth er activity in Brent where he hopes to stand in th e n ex t election and use th e im m igration issue as a focus fo r his campaign. Young, an ex-MI6 man, is in part ironically responsible for Kim Philby’s diplom atic rise. The o th e r groups and parties, while fiercely claim ing deep ideological and practical differences, seem to offer p retty m uch th e same kick-out-the-darkieshang-muggers-jail-IRA-fight-com prehensive-schools-recognise-Rhodesia-kissV orster’s-ass form ula. N ational Demo­ cratic chairm an David Brown, who is standing for Ipsw ich, is in favour of forced repatriation. Air Vice-Marshal Donald B ennett, th e head of th e N ation­

al In dependent Party, is an adm irer of the pragm atic policies of South Africa and Rhodesia. But w hat ab o u t the Tory p arty, w ith whom many o f these groups have a strange love-hate relationship? In general, it’s criticised for being too gentle w ith im m igrants and crim inals, econom i­ cally spineless and to o ready to abandon the British role in the world. At th e Tory conference in Blackpool, C ouncillor Peter W ood o f Sunderland p u t the mo­ tion calling for stricter control o f im m igrants and although Carr didn’t exactly give in totally to w hat he said, he was p retty flaccid in his objections to it. We even had Willie Deedes, chairm an o f th e Com m ons Select C om m ittee on Race Relations, telling us th a t identity cards might well becom e a reality and no-one could really accuse the Tories of being ‘so ft on race’ w ith a piece o f legis­ lation like th e 1971 Im m igration Act behind them . So th e Tories find them selves faced w ith the dilem m a o f w hether or n o t to go th e w hole anti-im m igrant h o g deporting at will, hum iliating im m igrants at airports and giving the gentle no d to th eir m ore vociferous right wing. As Mr Deedes so significantly p u t it, ‘public instinct is n o t always wrong in these m atters’. Even in th e castrated language o f politicians, it is clear w hat he means. But if groups and parties provide the m ore flam boyant signs of fascism, it is th e less obvious expressions th a t deserve m ore atten tio n . The arm y, for instance, is currently engaged in fighting British citizens, a significance th a t seems to have escaped a lo t o f people in this country. A nd since ou r arm y is still one o f th e m ost costly and largest in E urope and has now here like Cyprus, Aden and Malaya to play in any m ore, we m ust assume th a t they are going to becom e m ore deeply involved in fighting in Britain itself. It is certainly a situation th a t Brigadier Frank K itson, who m ade his nam e fight­ ing th e Mau Mau in K enya and the Irish in Ireland, seems to alm ost w elcom e in his book, ‘Low Intensity O peration’. He anticipates a situation in the late seven­ ties when the arm y role in fighting subversion will be m uch greater. By subversion, he m eans ‘strikes, protest m arches and propaganda . . . the use of small-scale violence’. He envisages the arm y ‘advising the governm ent’ and getting involved in the actual running of the co u n try, setting up highly efficient intelligence units. As regards th a t boring old im pedim ent, th e Law, K itson sees one alternative use for it as ‘ju st another w eapon in th e arsenal o f the governm ent . . . little m ore than a propaganda m ethod for th e disposal of unw anted m em bers of th e public’. A lthough n o t totally con­ vinced, at least in print, o f using th e law like this, K itson foresees th a t using the law legally might ‘prove unw orkable if it were fo u nd to be politically im possible to get sufficiently severe em ergency regulations on the sta tu te b o o k ’. He adds th a t ‘it is . . . tru e to say th a t un­ necessary delay in com m itting th e arm y may result in far worse com plications later o n ’. A nd he points o u t th a t ‘three or four tim es as m any troops might be

needed if they were confined to using batons and gas, as w ould be required if they were allowed to use small arm s’. K itson was involved in K enya in the fifties w hen we used to read ab o u t terrible atrocities co m m itted against the genial w hite settlers. In fact only 36 w hite people died, while 11,500 Africans were killed. A nd K itson is the man who w ants m ore political pow er fo r the army and a special ‘psychological u n it’ form ed. N or is he alone in his interest in Britain’s m ilitary futu re; Sir R o b ert Thom pson brought o u t ‘D efeating C om m unist Insurgency’ in 1967 and F aber advertises writers like Julian Paget and his ‘CounterInsurgency Campaigns’, generously re­ viewed by th e Daily Telegraph. The form er M ajor G eneral Richard C lutterbuck is an o th er m ilitarist who specialises in reserach in to co u n ter­ insurgency. He is currently being financed, to th e tu n e o f nearly £ 6 ,0 0 0 , by a Social Sciences Research Council grant to inves­ tigate ‘violence in British politics’ w ith a particular em phasis on violence in pickets. Soldiers have always been fascinated by games. The latest arm y ad campaign, which runs to full pages in th e dailies, poses an elaborate problem fo r potential

soldiers to try and solve. K itson even has a com plex guerilla game, diagrams in­ cluded, in his book. It is this n o tio n th a t people are toys to be m oved from one part o f the board to an o th er th a t is one of the m ost intriguing. The British Army, as we know , are ‘professionals’. T hey have joined to fight and, if necessary, kill, b u t above all to obey orders. One o f th e reasons th a t the US Army in V ietnam was such a disaster was the presence in th e ranks o f large num bers o f unwilling, subversive an d frag-happy draftees. The British Army has few such dissidents and consequently poses th a t m uch more o f a th rea t to a civilian population, w ith w hom it has little contact. T here’s no thrill o f satisfaction in bringing th e police in to an article on fascism. If y o u ’ve dealt w ith o r been dealt w ith by the police in Spain or America or Taiwan or Greece o r wherever, you can at least p u t o u r police in some perspective. But it w ould be w rong to ignore the p o ten tia l th a t th e police have to control us, a potential th a t is already being p u t to use. Take the recent raids on ‘bom b suspects’ fo r instance. Police sm ashed th e ir way in to houses ab o u t as likely to

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C ontinued fro m page 23. contain a bom b factory as th e Lord's Day Observance Society. Why? To garner addresses, to harrass, to see who was where. R o b ert Carr has said they can be as 'tough as th ey need’ in th e ir search for the b om b­ ers; if using a sledge-ham m er to bash your way in to a C harrington Street hom e isn’t fascistic, th e n I’m Eva Braun. Our police, people say, are not armed. Not q u ite true, o f course, since the Special Patrol G roup quietly disposed o f Basharet Hussain and M ohamad H anif Hussein in th e A ldw ych last March. The SPG has been in existence fo r eight years now and have increased th eir size to m ore than 200 highly-trained m en w ho cost ab o u t L i m a year to keep in Hillm an H unters, tran sit v a n s -a n d guns. N or are such forces confined to L ondon. Glasgow, Bristol, Lincolnshire, N orthum berland and m any other areas have th eir own ‘S upport G roups’ or ‘Serious Incident Squads’. A m erica has already show n the way in sophisticated rio t control and their m ethods have been studied in detail in this co untry. A nd how m any m ore little backroom organisations like Allen Inter­ national in Pye S treet are developing ‘photic flashes’ and surveillance devices? But the police, as we know , are under­ m anned and have to call for assistance from private security firms, w ho are already flexing th eir muscles on squatters and dem onstrators. Securicor, despite its absurd slogan ‘Securicor Cares’ and .the bizarre advertisem ents of appeasem ent signed by its chairm an, Sir K eith Erskine, perform s a police fu n ctio n at th e airport in holding im m igrants, usually black, for periods o f tim e unrestricted by any norm al considerations o f law. There are now m ore than 100,000 men em ployed in ‘secu rity’ in the United Kingdom , in firms like Securicor, Security Express, G roup F o u r T otal Security and A1 Security. Police estim ate th a t ab o u t 1,000 o f these are ex-convicts. Psychiatrists, like academ ics, can get away w ith m urder because o f th e initials after th eir names. A nd th e M ental H ealth Act o f 1959, particularly sections 24 and 40, gives sweeping pow ers o f com m itt­ m ent to them . Already politically involv­ ed activists are being given long jail sen­ tences for drug offences. How long before som e o f those lefty crazies need to be com m itted for th e ir ow n good? But is Britain really ripe fo r a blossom ­ ing, if th a t is the right w ord, o f fascism? H ow m uch o f our paranoia is wellgrounded fear? The obvious parallel situ atio n was G erm any betw een the wars. | They, to o , were in th e m idst o f econom ­ ic crise s-in flatio n in 1923 and the m onetary crisis o f 1926; they, too, had ju st suffered a heavy blow to their national pride, th e loss o f the war, and B ritain has ju st suffered the loss o f her em pire; their m ovem ent, too, was based am ong th e petit bourgeois w ith a grudge against b o th organised labour and big business. Writing in 1930, T rotsky asked w hat were th e current political phenom ena in G erm any and found four particular ones: deep national crisis; political crisis o f th e ruling class; internal contra­ dictions in th e working-class; political

I A nd am ongst the religions th a t have at developm ent w ith th e p e tit bourgeoisie. I least one o f those facets m ust be the All such phenom ena could be said to C hurch of th e Divine Light, the Children exist here at th e m om ent. The fact th at o f G od, Scientology and th e Festival of the N F axe still small a t th e polls is not Lighters. Before th ey all rush round to particularly significant. The N azis got now here near a m ajority in th e Reich­ consum e me in holy fire, 1 should make stag elections o f 1932. it clear th a t I am n o t saying th a t all mem­ In America, security firms like Brinks, bers o f these religions are fascists or Burns and W aggenhuit have pioneered anything like th a t; what I am saying is the way to such an ex ten t th a t arm ed th a t there are elem ents in each religion security men now patrol even places like th a t could easily be exploited in an anti­ Tow er Records, th e massive San Fran­ left fashion. And we all know that there cisco music shop. Would y o u th in k .th e is no arm y more dedicated th a n one new D ylan album was w o rth dying for? th a t know s it is going to heaven. At the m om ent in Britain wild dogs, There are o th e r com parisons th at can otherw ise know n as a lsa tia n s, are used be made; H itler's tim e in jail could be to harrass people and p ro tec t property. paralleled w ith the sentences handed o ut Of course, occasionally, th ey do get o ut at th e end o f th e last war to the ultra­ o f hand an d when th ey bite o ff the top of right h e r e -in fact, they regard themselves as m artyrs already; disillusioned soldiers a bab y ’s head th e re’s a national outcry. like th e G erm an G eneral K app, were at Squatters d o n ’t usually get th a t sort o f th e fo refro n t o f N az ism -th e y were dis­ sym pathetic coverage in th e tabloids. N ot all para-m ilitary groups are official gruntled w ith th eir c o u n try ’s new m ilitary role, to o ; the ‘foreign’ com m unity was or salaried; although St Ives Council blam ed fo r m any o f G erm any’s econom ic called on a security firm called K9 from problem s in the same way th a t Powell W eston-super-Mare to deal w ith local and his fellow psychotics blam e the hippies this sum m er, th ey h ad been blacks in Britain; there was am ong the preceded by local am ateur vigilantes. G erm ans the same distrust of in tern atio n ­ The Easy Rider, Sm ash-the-Hippies al c o m m itte e s-in th eir case the League scene no longer seems ju st a p art o f .the of N a tio n s-a s the ultra-rightists have o f A merican nightm are. And in Brent, the U nited N ations; sim ilar techniques are u s e d -a s Powell falsifies his figures on im m igration and makes up stories o f im m igrant behaviour, so, to o , did the Nazis: th e illustrations in 'M ein K am pf’ even w ent to th e ex ten t o f touching up Jewish noses to make them look longer. Britain has, ad m itted ly , a long history o f parliam entary dem ocracy n o t shared by G erm any and it does have a tradition o f doing things through co m m ittee and petition. It is th is respect for history that keeps the la te n t fascists at bay. But if an em ergency arose, an assassination, m ore bom bings, how long w ould the ‘norm al channels’ be allow ed to flow? Bob C am pbell’s series on th e ultra-right in th e M orning Star last March took a farranging look at ju st how m uch a threat the ultra-right really is. F or the ultra-right groups are just the tip o f the ja ck b o o t, and m ost o f them are to o shrill to pose an im m ediate general George Y oung th e ex-M onday Clubber, threat. O f course, th ey have to be has been involved in a strange anti­ ridiculed and pursued and exposed, but mugging squad. it is perhaps th e la ten t fascism, the ' Again those are overt exam ples o f what hidden elem ent, th a t is m ore dangerous: th e right-wing can do w ith th e often th e private arm ies accountable only to a silent agreem ent o f th e press an d the tiny num ber o f people; the new legis­ locals. B ut fascism is m any-headed. The lation th a t denies you the right to know Upsurge o f religions in the sixties has w hat prospective ju ro rs’ professions are; a press so irresponsible th a t it can say provided an ideal organisational structure th a t can divert young, m alleable minds ‘Police nam e th e IRA bom bers’ and in to actions th a t are b o th anti-left and then publish nam es and addresses and insidious. to hell w ith a trial; a media netw ork G od know s—and He seems like the th a t blam es th e IRA for any unsolved best au th o rity on th is o n e - th a t I’m n o t ‘atrocities’; a police com puterisation o f launching in to an attack on people w ho suspected b u t u n tried drug-users; the happen to feel th a t the way to peace is attach m en t o f wages o f rent-strikers via m editation and spiritual activity, w hen th ey refuse to pay; the bus con­ b u t th e new religions have a n u m b er of d u cto r w ho tells a Pakistani w om an he’s characteristics th a t m ake them b o th full up when h e’s n o t; th e L ord who tells suspect and po ten tially exploitable. th e House th a t parents of muggers ought Amongst those characteristics I’d include to be flogged; rio t co n tro l m ethods their som ew hat unspiritual interest in developed in secret. These are th e areas m oney, th eir o ften vitriolic attack s on th a t co n stitu te th e ja c k b o o t m entality, com m unism and even the welfare state, coated as th ey are in th e soft suede o f and a certain am ount o f strong-arm ing law and order. o f any individuals who oppose them . Ja ck b o o t Boys R u le-O K ? Or not OK?

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A t th e present, certain groups which should k n o w better are undertaking a vicious and cunning campaign to under m ine the police fo rce in Sou th a ll' Mr Walter Giibey, prospective Conservative candidate for Ealing-Southall, addressir the Ealing branch of the T ory Primrose League. O ctober 1973.

ed well, this little black suburb on the outskirts o f th e big w hite city, w ith its criss-cross society o f m ums and cousins and sisters and brothers. N ot any more. W hatever it was like back in the sixties, Southall now is certainly no prom ised land fo r th e im m igrants from th e East. Ju st try asking around ab o u t the local police and see how m any people sudden­ ly rem em ber o th er appointm ents. If you Y ou know y o u ’re getting close to South­ do find som eone w ho’s willing to give all when yo u start passing pie shops w ith you a few w ords o u t the corner o f their signs o u t fro n t reading ‘English Takem outh, y o u ’ll find y o u ’re discussing som e­ Away F ood’. Southall, the city ’s num ber thing far rem oved from th e corner one ethnic ghetto, L ittle India, a tow n Bobby, som ething m ore along the lines of w ith about as m uch rn com m on w ith the the rise of Beria or early SS h o rro r stories. rest o f L ondon living as free dope and ‘You can’t talk freely ab o u t im m igrants honest coppers. Cross th a t open stretch here,’ one social w orker w ith years of o f cold, flat land o u t along bus route 207 experience in Southall to ld m e when we and it’s like crossing th e border to an­ m et in a coffee s h o p - a t h er in siste n c e o th e r co u n try , another continent, where on th e o th e r side o f L ondon. ‘I t’s ju st n ot th e com er sweet shops stock sticky safe. All my phones are tap p ed and I am saffron rice balls fresh from Bengal and sure they have files on everyone w orking th e new sagents sell Diwali cards at Christ­ w ith im m igrants. I certainly never talk mas. The bus fills up w ith people at each to anyone on th e phone now and th a t’s stop. T hey’re all brow n, black, and th e y ’re ab o u t th e first sym ptom o f a police state, speaking strange languages. The Pakistani isn’t it? ’ co n d u cto r stops groaning over changing p o u n d n otes and smiles m ore often. H ome territo ry . O ut here it’s also Little Islam. On th e streets it’s all business and pleasure. A loof housewives from middle frican Judge sentt Asia floating around the open fruit stands inree year s gaol tc spilling across th e pavem ent. Old men in turbans greeting each o th e r across the jam m ed traffic, exchanging endless ritual family blessings. The skinny young studs in th e ir three-piece pegged suits parading S outhall Police S tation stands almost for th e girls who stand giggling in a line dead in th e m iddle o f L ittle India. An outside th e D om inion Cinema waiting for old, classically bleak, red brick nick th e n ext tear-jerker from the Bom bay w hich fo r years has been a beacon of dream factory to flicker across the old gloom in a suburb radiating vitality, it is screen. It’s a friendly tow n, Southall, a a w hite nigger in a black w oodpile, as to w n fo r friends w here th e citizens talk misplaced as a Jew in the Vatican. Res­ in clusters on the fo o tp ath and not in ponsible for ‘Division X’- a n area w ith fro n t of th e telly during ads. A happy a fair selection o f tough neighbourhoods slice o f suburban K arachi or C alcutta - t h e statio n has its share o f crim inals w ith a dash o f Caribbean, plucked o u t of to cope w ith. H owever S outhall’s th e tropics and grafted into grim w inter rep u tatio n fo r ‘zeal’ far o u tstrip s its fields to add a little spice to th e cold necessary duties. At th e m o m en t the porridge o f an English O ctober. statio n is operating u nder th e harsh glare The im m igrants started gathering in o f an AIO police inquiry, an Ealing Southall in 1955, lured by easy m oney at C om m unity R elations Council investiga­ th e old Wolf R ubber Works. By 1958, the tion and a wad of n atio n al press stories trickle into W olfs had becom e a flood about b ru tality , bashings and forced and by ’64, S outhall m eant England to co n fessio n s-n o rm ally enough to curb th e thousands buying their A ir India even the b en test b u n ch o f coppers. tickets back in Delhi. F or a tim e it w ork­ But then allegations and investigations are nothing new to th e men m anning the * (w ith no apologies w hatever to headquarters o f Division X. In fact the th e estate o f Ju d y G arland). w ould-be H onourable Mr G ilbey’s

‘vicious cam paign’ is only the latest o f at least th ree public outcries against South­ all Police this year alone. T here have been o th e r incidents, b u t w ith life the way it is in Southall at present, n ot many people are willing to discuss th e activities o f the local constabulary. O pen your m o u th to o wide o u t here and you sudden­ ly find y o u ’ve b itte n o ff y o u r head. The first hints o f the tro u b le to hit Southall this year came in Jan u aiy , follow ing an arm ed robbery in Division X. Three p e o p le -a ll w h ite -w e re arrested in raids carried o u t by th e police, and three separate allegations o f police mis­ co n d u ct soon surfaced. One o f those brought in claim ed he had been encouraged to sign a confession by punches to th e stom ach and th a t he had been locked overnight in a brightly lit cell w ith no food, w ater or bedding. A n o th er testified th a t his nose had been b roken by a police knee, an injury w hich was la ter conform ed by a doctor. ‘I was a b it sceptical ab o u t the first allegation’, said th e d efendants’ solicitor James Saunders, ‘b u t I d id n ’t have m uch doubt ab o u t th e second on e’. The police, on the o th er hand, decided th a t noth in g had happened to w arrant any investigation. The th ird person to m ake a charge over th a t n ig h t’s police action was a w om an, a relative o f the m en who were eventually convicted o f th e robbery. She had been sleeping in a house in Shep­ h erd ’s Bush w ith several children and tw o o th e r w om en, w hen she was aw akened by th e sound of the fro n t w indow being smashed. One o f th e w om en opened the fro n t d o o r and som ething h it her o u t of th e dark. W hen she got u p o ff the floor she fo u n d th e room full of plain clothes police, w ho moved on in to th e bedroom where th e w om an relative was sleeping. They ordered h er o u t o f bed and when she refused an officer ripped h er night­ dress dow n th e fro n t. ‘This seemed like a particularly unsavoury police o p eratio n ’, said Mr Saunders, ‘and I found the whole thing indefensible’. The officers in charge o f th e resulting A 10 police inquiry th o u g h t differently.

Somewhere Over at Southall, I t ’s no jo k e, a to w n w here police Beat up f o l k . . .* No disciplinary charges were laid. N ot surprisingly th e January inquiry did n o thing to dam pen th e sta tio n ’s enthusiasm fo r d u ty - in fact it did far m ore damage to th e citizens o f Southall th an if there had been no inquiry at all. To th e police it looked like tacit approval o f th eir m ore persuasive m ethods, a sort o f official seal. But m ore th an th a t it gave th e statio n w hat am ounted to a free hand in its dealings w ith th e huge South­ all im m igrant population. If it could slide o u t from u nder a series of p re tty solid bashing allegations m ade by w hites and com e up smelling o f roses, w hat hope w ould a black, w ith ju st a basic grasp o f the English language, let alone English law or civil rights, have o f m aking any shit stick? ‘They even beat their own people and get aw ay w ith it’, one Asian com m unity leader was to tell me. Even at this tim e the relationships betw een police and m igrants was fraying. There were com plaints th a t the police were interested in blacks only w hen it suited them , b u t w hen it cam e to keeping th e peace am ongst the im m igrants, they didn’t w ant to know . A fter one fight be­ tw een tw o gangs o f im m igrant kids, one boy was left lying seriously injured on the fo o tp a th for upw ards o f h alf an h o u r before any action was taken. When the police did arrive they started pushing around th e residents who had gathered to assist, and one officer was heard to re­ mark: ‘We only came dow n here because the person w ho phoned could speak English’. Also at about this tim e Judge G rant at the Old Bailey was ruling inadm issable confessions m ade by tw o Southall im m igrants, Mr and Mrs Bhooi, in an incest trial. The Bhoois claim ed th ey had been forced to confess and the Judge ruled th ey had signed involuntarily. The n ext set o f b ru tality charges to spark o f an inquiry came to light purely by accident ju st tw o m onths after the January investigation. Satnam Kane was a West L ondon petrol pum p atten d an t who was picked up by S outhall police and charged w ith stealing £50 from the garage he was w orking at. He was held at the statio n for six hours, signed a con­ fession and pled guilty w hen he appeared before the m agistrate th e n ex t day. The case seemed sewn u p u n til th e magistrate, before passing sentence, questioned Kane as to why he had stolen th e m oney. Des­ pite a string o f previous convictions, Kane had k ep t o u t o f tro u b le since m arrying tw o years earlier. Why break this tw o

year conviction drought? asked the magi­ strate. I d idn’t steal anything, came the reply. They m ade me confess. The case was adjourned and once again things were looking a little bad for Southall station. The next day they were looking a w hole lo t worse w hen the garage p ro p rieto r found th e ‘stolen’ m oney in the back o f a draw er where it had been all along. This left Southall holding a confession, n ot only from a m an who denied com m itting any crime, b u t to a crim e th a t had never in fact happened. When Kane reappeared he was repres­ ented by Malcolm H urw itt, a form er m em ber o f th e N ational Council for Civil Liberties executive com m ittee, who to ld the co u rt th a t while in Southall Police S tation for those six hours, Kane had been struck in the face three tim es and had been threatened th a t unless he confessed his m o th er and wife w ould be im plicated. A serious allegation of con­ spiracy to pervert the course o f justice was involved, said Mr H urw itt, and the papers should be sent to the D irector of Public Prosecutions. The m agistrate made an order accordingly and threw the Kane case o u t o f court. More th an four m onths later th e DPP fo u n d there was insufficient evidence to ju stify a police prosecution, which was news to no-one except perhaps the Southall im m igrants. A fter being raised in th eir respective countries on the m y th of British Justice and the Honest Bobby, here they were in London, beaten, harassed and fram ed. But when they com plained, th ey were ignored. ‘Even if the trial court is n ot satisfied th a t the confession was voluntary and therefore acquits, there is virtually no risk th a t police m alpractice th a t led to th e confession will afterw ards be fo rth ­ com ing ’, com m ented the NCCL newssheet Civil L iberty, after the DPP findings were published. ‘Such a degree of im m u­ nity from the risk o f being fo u n d o u t, even in th e case o f quite grave miscon­ duct, m ust very seriously increase the te m p tatio n to behave im properly in particular cases’. ‘2 0 5 S o u th A frican police were convicted in 1972 on charges o f culpable hom i­ cide, in te n t to do grevious bodily harm and assault. O nly 13 o f these have been dism issed fro m the fo r c e ’-A n ti-A p a r t­ heid News, April 1973. ‘T em p tatio n to behave im properly . . .’ Yes, it’s a big te m p ta tio n alright. But it’s n o t q u ite th a t easy. You still have to w atch y o u r step. Y ou still have to play it by th e b o o k a t least part o f th e time. Can’t ju st go around picking u p people o ff the Streets for nothing. T h ey ’ve got to be a b it suspicious. There has to be at least som e sort o f p ro o f to back up the confessions th ey are going to sign. You might make a m istake and pull in some­ one im p o rtan t, som eone w ith friends w ho can make trouble. A nyone can make a m istake. And then you need w arrants to get in to their houses. And th ere’s records to keep. And co u rt appea­ rance where those smart-arse lawyers tw ist things around and ask questions and make y o u look a fool. N o, you can’t ju st pick them up fo r nothing . . . even if

15th and alcohol had been consum ed . . . ‘The police came to my w ork and said they w anted me to help them w ith en­ quiries. I was taken to S outhall Police S tation and they said: “ You are an illegal im m igrant” . When I said no, th ey started h itting me and said they w ould stop hit­ ting me if I w ould say yes. Som etim es they were h ittin g me on my knees w ith a truncheon, som etim es on my back or banging my head against the wall. They had their hands over my eyes while they were h itting me so I couldn’t identify them . One policem an w ould stand on my feet while ano th er w ould h it me. Many tim es they did this. One I could smell alcohol on his b rea th ’. Eventually they forced Malik to give the date o f his arrival and th ey let him go. The next day he saw his solicitor and tw o doctors w ho confirm ed his in­ juries. Dr Sue Evens o f Hillingdon H ospital found he had bruised knees, a bum ped and cut head and a swollen right eye. By the tim e this was all over, Malik had becom e som ething of an em barrassm ent to th e Southall constabu­ lary, making bashing claims to doctors and lawyers and show ing w ounds to prove them . Obviously som ething had to be done.

allegations o f such treatm en t are heard in respect o f Southall Police’, it read. ‘In the previous cases, i.e. th e trial o f Bhooi and Satnam Kane, it was accepted by the courts th a t false confessions were obtained by th e Southall Police. We are astonished th a t the D irector of Public Prosecutions has taken no action against those police officers. We therefore dem and an open Parliam entary inquiry. . .’ What they got was the old AIO again. A nd although it hasn’t as y et produced any findings, th e im m igrants o u t at South­ all already know the outcom e. ‘In view o f the previous investigations I w ouldn’t be very co n fid en t th a t anything earthshattering is going to com e o u t o f the DPP this tim e’, said solicitor Saunders. The im m igrants use o th er words. *

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A few weeks back it looked as though some good had actually come o u t o f all those allegations, inquiries and bruises, and th a t the passive people o f Southall, ab o u t as m ilitant as a Biba shop assistant, had won a m ajor victory. The police brass, for reasons best know n to themselves, signed a w arrant on th e Southall Cells and closed the station. F o r a m o n th the building sto o d em pty, a cold, deserted shell hidden from the street by huge advertising hoardings. Then the wreckers moved in and, as each day th e lead ball ate deeper in to th e red brick, a crow d o f locals w atched cheer­ fully, n o t at all upset over th e fall o f the headquarters o f Division X. During the tw o years’ rebuilding, Southall was sche­ duled to drop in status to a sub-station and N orw ood G reen was to have taken A week later Malik was pulled o ff the com m and. A lthough only a mile o r tw o jo b again, taken once m ore to Southall apart, the tw o stations are as alike, well, and from there rushed o u t to H eathrow. as black and w hite. Eighty-year-old The plan was to dep o rt him th a t same N orw ood, nestled away in fro n t o f its night, but for the second tim e th e police village green betw een the R oyal H um ane underestim ated Mr Malik and his Southall Society, th e RSPCA clinic and The Priory, friends. A fter frantically calling solicitors, is a small chunk o f Jane A ustin England, the police and th e Home O ffice, a cousin an Em pire relic as rem ote from the East­ applied for bail to the High C ourt w hich ern wierdness of Southall as HP Sauce was granted. F o u r days after being from mango chutney. whisked o ff to H eathrow , Malik was free. S outhall’s boys in blue co uldn’t take ‘Before 1 was released an im m igration the change. Perhaps th ey figured th eir officer came to me and said ab o u t my th ro ttle h old on Division X was slipping, injuries: “ Maybe you fell dow n the stairs perhaps it was the Royal H um ane Society or som ething, eh?” I ju st looked at him th a t got to them . A nyway, ju st tw o weeks and said: “ You th in k I d o n ’t know w hat after moving to N orw ood, they packed happened to m e?” .’ up once again and moved back to a pre­ Com ing hard on the heels of the Kane fabricated office stuck away behind the case, Malik’s story received widespread growing pile of rubble th at was once the press publicity and once again an inquiry pride o f X Division. in to th e workings o f S outhall Police In hom e territo ry th e lads are now S tation was called for, n o t th e usual ballsettled and secure, the panda cars are less A IO/DPP w hitew ash tho u g h , but a roam ing the streets and the rum ours are full parliam entary investigation. The Southall im m igrants were tired o f swallow­ flying. Down at the local school th e kids are talking ab o u t th eir m ate who was ing w hitewash. A letter, signed by leaders pulled in for carrying wire in his p ocket, of the Indian W orkers Association, the wire w hich the police said had been used Pakistan A ction C om m ittee and the Afro in a robbery. Eventually he was released Caribbean A ssociation, was draw n up and on b a i l . . . after a beating. T he dead h and sent to th e H om e Secretary. ‘This is at least th e th ird occasion when is firm ly back on th e pulse o f Southall.

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they are black. Britain’s new retrospective immigra­ tion laws were a boon for bent, racist coppers. The 1968 Im m igration Act and this year’s Pakistani Act, the m ost in­ hum an pieces o f legislation y et to ooze out o f Middle Britain’s black paranoia, gave the police m ore freedom than the British Press. Im m igrants can now be detained ‘on suspicion’ for an unlim ited period o f tim e. They need never see the inside o f a co urtroom from the day they are arrested and the m om ent they begin climbing th e Air India gangplank at H eathrow . Proof o f legal entry is the only safeguard against deportation, and, as many im m igrants entered Britain prior to th e 1968 cut-off date w ith o u t having had th eir passports stam ped, there are now thousands o f black Britons who fear any brush w ith the law. Im m igrants who lose their passports are equally as vulnerable. And the speed w ith which im m igrants are ejected from th e country is frightening . . . no tim e for brutality charges . . . no tim e for AIO investiga­ tions. Already since January, 114 people have been detained under the laws and 86 deported. Only 14 have been released. Social w orkers in im m igrant areas will tell you tales o f split families, broken hom es, passport raids, identification checks and brutality for as long as you want to listen. Meanwhile, at th e Tory Party conference in Blackpool, the Go­ vernm ent was being accused o f softpedalling on im m igration. I.D. cards for blacks were discussed as the next likely step. In South Africa th e y ’re called pass cards. Southall Police S tation was not slow in using this new m anna from heaven. Soon there were ugly rum ours doing the rounds o f Southall, rum ours o f people being picked up and disappearing, rum ours of passport raids after dark, of driving licence checks w here passports were necessary, o f police spies paid to nam e ‘suspects’, rum ours of interpreters pretending to be police and interrogating im m igrants, rum ours o f m ore blood­ letting in the Southall cells. No-one know s how m any o f the 114 people detained owe their im prisonm ent to Southall zeal—‘We d on’t keep figures for individual stations’, said th e Home Office m an—n o r in w hat condition they left the cells for the trip to H eathrow . On past record it’s a fair assum ption the station was having a field day, rounding them up in its own inim itable steel-fist style But once again, they blew it. In August rum our becam e reality in the form o f one A bdul Rashid Malik, a 26-year-old m achine operator in a local factory. Malik, hard w orking, respectable, respected, came to Britain five years ago from Pakistan, struggled through the English language and English custom s, and decided he liked the life. He sent off his passport and naturalisation papers to the Home Office. He still doesn’t know why he was one of the twelve ‘suspected illegal im m igrants’ pulled in th a t m onth, and he probably never will. Perhaps one of his w orkm ates w anted his jo b and gave the police ‘in form ation’, perhaps his neighbour didn’t like the way he ran his house. It’s like th a t in Southall. There had been a CID party at the statio n on August

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‘The game o f Parliamentary Democracy in Chile ended (not for the first time) with the side who invented it suspending the rules’.

I doubt that we shall ever see a boutique called ‘Salvador Allende’. He was 64 years old, far from pretty, middle class in lifestyle and appearance, a politician, not a warrior. Not the stuff o f which teen heroes are made. And besides, fashions have come and gone in Britain since Che adorned the walls o f every well-equipped State Smashers’ flat-L atin American revolutionaries are now rather passe (perhaps it’s since Mick Jagger married one of the other side). In any case, they’re not enter­ taining and that’s what counts. Maybe I ought to plug the fact that Allende liked to tango, which I hear is all the rage this year. But despite their differences o f age and image, Allende and Guevara were both part of the same movement aimed at creating a social­ ist Latin America free from US exploitation. Together with Fidel Castro, they were personal friends who understood and respected each others’ different roads to the common goal. Readers o f Oz who have grown up without growing cynical would do well to understand the significance o f the Chilean tragedy, parti­ cularly now that those simple certainties o f 1968 seem less certain and not at all simple. What were symbols o f revolt in the ’60s, today take on a sinister ambiguity. After the coup in Santiago, the Army played rock and roll over the radio to keep young people o ff the streets, and bands o f wealthy kids with long hair and faded denim flares could be seen helping to scrub left-wing slogans o ff bullet riddled walls. But what relevance, you might ask, can the

affairs o f Chile, set in a continent notorious for its frequent and violent changes o f govern­ ment, have for placid (Paris 1968?) law abiding (Greece?) stable (Ireland?) old Europe? For the moment, let me merely say this: the next government o f France is very likely to be a Communist-Socialist alliance, with Italy not far behind. Even in Britain, after five years o f inflation and depression amid escalating class conflict (politely called ‘industrial unrest’ by nice people), it no longer seems laughable for Lord Balogh, writing in the E vening Standard, to warn the Labour party that Allende’s grisly fate is what you get for being too bolshie. Besides, the Chilean experience has an ‘oldfashioned’ ring about it which is instructive in itself. All the things that trendy political scientists tell us cannot happen in parliamentary democracies happened. ‘The working class taking power? But my dear chap, we don’ t have classes anymore in the liberal-affluentconsensus-democratic-industrial-post McLuhan age!’ In fact, the actors in the drama have not . changed fundamentally since the Russian Revolution; the smoke screens raised to obscure them have merely improved, having recruited the Marcuses and Theodore Rozaks for added opacity. In November 1970, the verv first democrat­ ically elected Marxist government took office in Chile. Called ‘Popular Unity’ (Unidad Popular), it was an alliance o f Communists and Socialists led by Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens, a founder member o f the Chilean Socialist Party.

Its aim was to abolish m onopoly capitalism and US exploitation in Chile by legal means, working within the Parliamentary system. For three years it fought bitter and ruthless oppo­ sition from within and without to cany out this aim, achieving considerable success and earning the overwhelming support and respect o f the working people and peasants. It ended atrociously in September o f this year with a military coup (possibly US aided) and the death o f President Allende, shot dead while defending the Presidential Palace. The triumphant military junta then launched a ‘white terror’ o f rare viciousness in order to ‘liberate the fatherland from the Marxist yoke’. Factories whose workers resisted the coup were levelled by the Air Force with bombs and rockets, killing thousands. Hundreds more were executed in the streets and several thousand rounded up into makeshift concen­ tration camps to await military tribunals. ‘Unofficial’ Fascist death squads, eager to revenge three years o f humiliation, dragged known socialist supporters from their houses and shot them. The game of Parliamentary Democracy ended (not for the first time) with the side who invented it suspending the rules. Chile is (or was) anything but the typical South American ‘banana republic’ o f the smug European imagination. A mainly urban and industrial country, where copper and salt-petre mines, iron and steel far outweigh agriculture in the Gross National Product, Chile has a long and sophisticated political history which

m a k e s I t a m e . I ta ly a n d e v e n G e r m a n y l o o k ; l i k e b a n a n a r e p u b l i c s w h e n m e a s u r e d by t h e n u m b e r ol c o l la p s e d re g im e s a n d v io le n t p o l i t i c a l e p i s o d e s . T h e R e p u b l i c ’s p a r l i a m e n ­ tary s y s t e m d a t e s b a c k t o 1 8 3 3 . U ntil 196 4 C hile w as ru le d a lm o s t w ith o u t i n t e r r u p t i o n by r e p r e s e n t a ti v e s o f a sm all r u l i n g c l a s s o f b ig l a n d o w n e r s , m i n e o w ti ers . ! i n d u s t r i a l i s t s a n d f i n a n c i e r s ( d o m i n a t e d by w ealth y fam ilies such as th e I d w a r d clan), w h o se a t tit u d e to unruly w o rk e rs c o u ld be s u m m a r i s e d a s ' L e t t h e m e a t g r u p e s h o t ’. S i n c e t h e l a ic I 9 4 d s . th e new p r o l e s s i o n a l m i d d l e classes, w h o s e vie w s t e n d to be m o r e p ro g re s s ­ ive . h a v e v i e d w i t h t h i s gris ly I o r s y t e S a g a a n d j th e M arxist I eft for p a r l ia m e n ta r y p o w e r. T h e C h i l e a n sy s t e m w a s r a t h e r l i k e t h a t o f th e USA. w ith an ex e cu tiv e (th e President an d h i s G o v e r n m e n t ) r u l i n g t h r o u g h a ci vi l service b u r e a u c r a c y , a n d a s e p a ra te legislature ( t h e t w o h o u s e s o f C o n g re s s ) to m a k e o r ■ a p p r o v e n e w laws. P r e s i d e n t a n d C o n g r e s s w e r e e l e c t e d s e p a r a t e l y a n d by n o m e a n s al ­ w ays saw ey e to eye. s o m e tim e s being c o n t r o l­ l e d b y riva l p a r t i e s . B u t p e r h a p s th e d ecisive in f lu e n c e o n Chile' j d e v e l o p m e n t is U S i m p e r i a l i s m , w h i c h t o o k o v er w h e r e B ritain a n d G e r m a n y le ft o f f at th e m m ol th e c e n t u r y . B efore 1970. US b usiness o w n e d th e b u lk o f C h ile's lu c rative m inin g i n d u s t r y , s e v e r a l b a n k s , a n d h a d l i n g e r s in • I m o s i e v e ry p r o f i t a b l e i n d u s t r i a l p i e . U n l i k e

t h e C e n t r a l A m e r i c a n ' b a n a n a r e p u b l i c s ’, l i t t l e a g ricu ltu ra l la n d w as U S o w n e d , w h ic h may p a r t l y e x p l a i n w h y t h e U S d i d n ’t i n t e r v e n e d irectly a g a in st A lle n d e. T h e y h a d to deal w ith s o m e t h in g far m o r e tric k y th a n a p e a sa n t rebellion. U N I D A D P O P l ’l A R IN I’OAVI K. f r o m 1 9 6 4 t o 197(1. t h e C h r i s t i a n D e m o ­ c r a t s r u l e d C h i l e u n d e r P r e s i d e n t I rei . a n d failed to c a rry o u t th e ir p r o m i s e d a n d m u e l) n e e d e d r e f o r m s , in p a r t i c u l a r , they d i d n o t b reak th e US s tr a n g le -h o ld o n C h ile 's m in in g i n d u s tr y , a n d t a ile d t o u n s e a t t h e large a n d in ­ e f f i c i e n t l a n d o w n e r s . B y I 97(1. i n f l a t i o n , u n ­ em ploy m e n t a n d poverty w ere raging a n d th e C D P ’s p o p u l a r i t y c r a s h e d . W i t h t h e P r e s i d e n t i a l I le c tio n s a p p r o a c h i n g , t h e p a r t y 's left w in g gained the u p p e r h an d a n d p u t fo rw ard R a d o m iro T o m ie as ca n d id ate , s h atterin g h o p es o f f u rth e r s u p p o r t fro m th e right w in g N atio n al P arty, w h o o f f e r e d th e ir o w n e \ P r e s id e n t A lle ss a n d ri. W ith his o p p o n e n t s so divided. A lle n d e sailed th r o u g h th e gap to victory w ith 3 6 .3 • o f th e vo te . H aving s w o r n b e f o r e a h o s tile C o n g r e s s to respect the C o n s tit u tio n . A lle n d e a n d P o p u lar U n i t y s et o u t o n t h e C h i l e a n R o a d t o S o c i a l i s m . T h e only p o w e r s w h ic h P o p u la r U n ity p o s se ss e d w e r e t h o s e i n v e s t e d in t h e P r e s i d e n t a n d t h e ex tra-P .irliam cntary m o b ilis a tio n o f th e w o rk e rs a n d p e a s a n ts th e m selv e s. C o n g re s s w as c o n t r o l ­ l e d b y li r e C h r i s t i a n D e m o c r a t s . I lie Civi l

S ervic e, th e C o u r t s a n d (he P o lic e l o r e e w ere h o s t i l e . I lie Arm y v i i o n t h e s i d e l i n e s a n d w atched. T o m ie m a d e several a d v a n c e s o f f e r in g a n a l l i a n c e a m a j o r i t y in C o n g r e s s in r e t u r n f o r P o p u la r U n i t y 's d r o p p i n g m o s t o f t h e socialist e l e m e n t s f r o m it s p r o g r a m m e - A l l e n d e r e f u s e d ( a r e f u s a l w h i c h m o s t I i n o p e a n ‘s o c i a l i s t s ’ w o u ld fin d h a rd to u n d e rs ta n d ). IK a s e r i e s o f a s t o u n d i n g f e a t s o f p o l i t i c a l s ki ll a n d c u n n i n g , a l a r g e p a r t o f P o p u l a r U n i t y -' p ro g ra m m e was p u sh e d th ro u g h , a ro u n d , over o r i n - t h e - t e e t h - o f C o n g r e s s . I n t h e t'irst y e a r . I'S -o w n e d c o p p e r m in es w ere n atio n alised w ith ­ o u t c o m p e n s a t i o n , la rg e e s t a t e s w e r e e x p r o p ­ ria ted a n d h a n d e d to P easan t C o -o p erativ es, w ages w ere increased, p ric es fro zen , a n d h ea lth , e d u c a tio n a n d ho u sin g im p ro v e m e n ts w ere s ta r te d . V ital heavy in d u s trie s , s u c h as co al, steel, c e m e n t a n d te x til e s , w e re n a t io n a l is e d a n d m o d e r n i s e d , r e s u l t i n g in a r e c o r d e c o n o m i c g r o w t h r a t e in 1 9 7 1 a n d a r e d u c t i o n in i n f l a ­ t i o n a n d u n e m p l o y m e n t . v M l e n d e ’s p o l i c y w a s to strik e h a rd at the e c o n o m ic p o w e r-b a se o f th e w ealth y in d u strialist a n d th e U S investor, w hile p la catin g th e n e rv o u s m i d d le classes a n d t h e A rm y so as n o t to d riv e t h e m i n t o th e w ailin g a rm s o f the R ight. Ii w a s a n a r r o w t i g h t - r o p c . w i t h ci v il w a r ( a n d p r o b a b l e b lo o d y d e f e a t) as th e p e n a lty f o r falling. T h e w o r k i n g c l a s se s ’ a n d p e a s a n t s ’ s u p p o rt for P o p u lar U n ity g rew stronger, m o re e n t h u s i a s t i c a n d c o n f i d e n t . S p u r r e d o n . by th i s , h is le f t- w in g u rg e d A llende to g o e v e n f u r t h e r . a n d faster. I r o m th e R ig h t c a m e h o w l s o f , p r o t e s t , t h r e a t ' s , li b e l s , p r o v o c a t i o n s , s a b o t a g e a n d treason. By l a t e 1 9 7 2 . l i t t l e m o r e c o u l d b e d o n e w i t h o u t a friendly C o n g r e s s , b u t t h e C h r is tia n D e m o c r a t s t u n d e r I rei a g a i n ) w e r e m o v i n g r a p i d l y R i g h t - w a r d s . I n t h i s y e a r ’s C o n g r e s s i o n ­ al I l e c t i o n s . P o p u l a r U n i t y i n c r e a s e d it s v o t e to 4 4 .. b u t n a r r o w ly fa ile d to g a in a m a jo r it y a g a i n s t a n ow s o l i d C h r i s t i a n D e m o c r a t - N a t i o n a l Party bloc . R e s i s t a n c e to P o p u l a r U n ity c a m e firs tjy . as e x p e c te d , f r o m lh e tr a d itio n a l R ight. I x t r e m e R i g h t g r o u p s s t a r t e d i n 197(1 a c a m p a ig n ol assassinations, b o m b in g s a n d sab o ­ tage. w h i c h c o n t i n u e d t h r o u g h o u t I P 's rule, c o m i n g t o a p e a k b e f o r e t h e c o u p . I h is h a d d u b i o u s p o li tic a l u s c f u ll n v ss . h o w e v e r , as A lle n d e c o u l d a lw a y s tu r n d e m o n s t r a ti v e ly to t h e m i d d l e cla s se s a n d say. ‘ I p o k . y o u are th e o n e s w h o b r e a k t h e L a w !’ M ore d am ag in g w as the e c o n o m ic an d fin an cial resistan ce o f th e w ealth y classes il le g a l e x p o r t o f c a p i t a l , a d o l l a r b l a c k m a r k e t , fa e lo ry -lo c k o u is. I he U n ite d S ta te s a d d e d to ’th is a n e c o n o m i c b l o c k a d e 1a n d d e l i b e r a t e l y s a b o t a g e d C h i l e ’s p o s i i i o n in t h e w o r l d m o n e y m a rk ets. I a n d o w n e r s ’ resistance to p e a sa n ts' ta k e -o v e r o f th e la n d led to fig h tin g a n d lost harvests. \ H t h i s , c o m b i n e d w i t h t h e c o l l a p s e tin .1 9 7 2 o f t h e p r i c e o f c o p p e r o n t h e w o r l d m arkets, pu t a s to p to the p ro m isin g ec o n o m ic b o o m ol 1971 a n d in fla tio n c r e p t b ac k . B ut the d ecisive blow w as n o n e o f these, w h ic h a lo n e c o u ld h a v e b e e n w e a th e re d , albeit w ith difficulty ( t h e C u b a n r e v o lu tio n survived w o rse ). T h e killer b l o w w a s th e o r g a n is e d o p p o s i t i o n o f t h e m i d d l e classes. A f t e r T o m i e ’s f l i r t a t i o n s f a i l e d . I r e i ' s w ing o f th e C D P re g a in e d th e in itia tiv e a n d s w u n g i n t o f u l l - b l o o d e d o p p o s i t i o n in C o n g r e s s , h o p i n g t o s e c u r e A l l e n d e ’s r e s i g n a t i o n a n d th e ir o w n r e t u r n to p o w e r . M o re im p o r ta n t ly , in a l l i a n c e w i t h t h e r i g h t w i n g p r e s s ( p a r t i c u l a r ­ ly t h e I d w a r d s ' /;'/ Mercurio) w h i c h w a s g i v e n f r e e v o i c e by ' C o m m u n i s t D i c t a t o r A l l e n d e ' . they set o u t to m o b i lis e m i d d l e class o p p o s i t i o n . By d e l i b e r a l e u s e o l m e d i a s c a r e t a c t i c s ( f o r e x a m p l e o v e r U P s p r o p o s e d legal a n d c o n s t i t u ­ tio n a l r e f o r m s ) , t h e y a c h i e v e d th e ir aim. e v e n t u a l l y , in a s t r a n g e a n d s i g n i f i c a n t re v e rsa l o f roles, t h e C h r is ti a n D e m o c r a t s began f o m e n tin g strik e s a m o n g w h ite collar w o rk e rs a n d p rofessionals. A lo rry -o w n e rs ’ strike p araly sed the c o u n t r y ( w h ic h d e p e n d s h eav ily o n r o a d t r a n s p o r t ) f o r w e e k s u n til

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broken by the Army at Allende’s request. But the peace was temporary. A second lorryowners’ strike this summer brought out doctors, lawyers, shop keepers and eventually civil servants in sympathy. The Army refused further help and the country slid into economic chaos. The showdown approached. Workers occupied nationalised factories and armed to defend the Revolution. Insurrection was more or less openly discussed. On the other side, Right-wing officers attem pted a coup in Santi­ ago, which was put down by loyal units. Allende, in a final effort to avoid civil war, asked three hitherto loyal Generals to take over the armed forces. They apologetically resigned. In early September, on walls around Santiago, graffiti appeared bearing a single word: ‘Jakarta’ (the Indonesian capital where tens o f thou­ sands o f communists were slaughtered after the army deposed Sukharno). Some bloody days later, the new Junta, under Army Chief Pinochet, Air Force Chief Leigh and Navy Commander Merino, could inform the world that ‘the Allende regime has died o f inflation’. The roles o f executioner and coroner are not usually so boldly com­ bined and many may question the tact, let alone the accuracy, o f such a verdict. The political com plexion o f the new Regime will present few surprises. The Junta initially claimed its aims to be basically ‘demo­ cratic’, and that any gains made by workers under Unidad Popular would not be revoked (as credible as a mugger asking for change o f a fiver). Their record, so far, suggests otherwise. Three hundred nationalised companies are to be returned to their ‘owners’, as are the large estates. Allende’s wage increases have been cancelled and enormous increases in staple food prices (o f up to 500%) decreed. Schools and universities are being purged, the hunting down and execution o f socialists continues. Most significantly, the 1925 Constitution has been abolished and a new one is to be written excluding the Left from ever regaining power; the Parliamentary Road has com e to a dead end in Chile. ‘Now’, the Generals have promised, ‘there will be no more politics’. This leaves as a probable future a long, painful guerilla struggle led by the MIR (Revo­ lutionary Left Movement), Socialists and perhaps Communists, whose organisations are by no means destroyed. The outcom e-B olivian defeat, Cuban victory, or Vietnamese holocaust - i s not a subject for easy prediction, optimistic or otherwise. A similar caution could also be exercised when drawing lessons for Europe. The ‘Parlia­ mentary Road’, correctly understood, neither stands nor falls by the Chilean defeat. To refuse a part in electoral politics in Chile (or France or Italy) would have condemned the Marxist parties to that same near-impotence they enjqy in Britain. Nevertheless, Allende ‘unlike some commu­ nists nearer hom e’, didn’t believe that one may be elected and then, peacefully and unopposed, legislate socialism into being. But the military realities o f a modern state don’t allow you to be elected and then simply ‘cheat’. Allende chose to abide by the Constitution, not because it was God-Given, but to avoid instantly losing those middle sectors who believe that it was, and without whose temporary support (as Lenin discovered over half a century ago) no socialist revolution can succeed. It is almost a revolutionary commonplace that a Workers’ State cannot take over the existing bureaucracy and Armed Forces and wield them to its own ends. But exactly how , in modern circumstances, ohe may transform them is a far from commonplace problem. Un­ idad Popular failed tragically to solve it. The European Ultra-Left might do better to worry than to crow ‘I told you so’. And those Oz readers for whom politics is still a dirty word would do well to reflect that the prospect for ‘fucking in the streets’ in Santiago has never been worse.

THE LEFT Communist Party: formed in 1921 and consis­ tently pro-Russian. From 1931 onwards it has been com mitted to a Parliamentary strategy. Banned between 1925-35 and 1948-58. In­ volved in several unsuccessful compromise governments with the Radicals in the 1940s, it finally allied with the Socialists behind Allende in 1958. Socialist Party: formed in 1933 after the abor­ tive 12-day ‘Socialist Republic’ (a palace revolution led by an Air Force officer Marmaduke Grove). It rejected the Communist political dependence on Russia, and has always been doubtful about Parliamentary tactics, leaning on occasion far to the Left. Joined, rather warily, with the Communists to put Allende up for President in 1958. He came second out o f five candidates. The alliance put him forward again in 1964 on a more radical platform, but were defeated by a right-wing counter-alliance. Radical Party: Chile’s oldest Left party formed in the 1880s by mainly upper and middle class reformers (gaining a reputation for vacillation in policy and corruption in office). Ruled with Communist help in the 1940s, but soon turned on them and banned them. Moved Leftward in the 1960s and declared itself Marxist in 1971. Unidad Popular: an alliance o f Communists, Socialists, Radicals, MAPU and small socialist arties, formed before the 1970 Presidential lections on a radical socialist platform. MIR: the Revolutionary Left Movement, a guerilla group com mitted to armed revolution who were responsible for assassinations, kid­ nappings and bank robberies before 1970. After Allende’s election they ceased operations and conditionally supported Unidad Popular, while remaining armed and agitating for more radical measures. THE CENTRE Christian Democratic Party (CDP): this mode­ rate, Catholic reform party rose spectacularly in influence throughout the 1950s. Originally aimed at attracting working class support from the Marxist Left (in which it failed), it is supported mainly by the professional and middle classes-doctors, lawyers, technicians, managers, civil servants, some privileged workers such as copper miners, and a section of the peasantry. Its policies reflect the aspirations o f these groups-a modern, efficient, capitalist Chile, less economically dominated by the USA, but politically friendly. The CDP has a right-wing under Eduardo Frei, who see reform only as the last barrier against socialism, and a

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left-wing under Radomiro Tomic, who see it as a democratic non-Marxist ‘alternative’ to capitalism (stressing such fashionable things as workers’ participation in management and co­ operation between classes). The further left split off as MAPU in 1969 and joined Unidad Popular. THE RIGHT Conservative Party: the oldest Chilean party, traditionally the party o f the landowners and the Catholic Church. Liberal Party: arose with industry as the party o f the new-rich industrialists and mine owners. Fought a brief civil war with the conservatives over the Church/State question, but soon resolved their differences. These parties dominated Chilean politics until WW2 when the Radicals and then the Christian Democrats eroded their position as ‘The Establishment’. In 1964, alarmed by Allende’s popularity, they backed Frei (the CDP candidate) giving him the Presidency with a hefty 50% o f the vote. When he set out on a course of, what were to them, radical reforms, they were so outraged and panic-stricken that they merged into a single, extreme right, National Party. FNLP: successor to various Chilean fascist groups, the National Front For Fatherland And Liberty was responsible for much o f the terrorist action against Unidad Popular. With considerable support in the Forces, it has moved openly since the coup; its ‘death squads’ have executed known leftists in many parts of Chile. THE ARMED FORCES The Chilean Army was the first modern army in South America, thanks to re-organisation and training by the Germans during their period o f influence around 1900. The British performed the same service to the Navy. Des­ cendants of British settlers have played a strong role in the Armed Forces, hence such Generals names as Moore, Pickering and Leigh. Apart from short periods, the Army has kept out of politics; the Parliamentary system was so well established that the ruling groups seldom found need to rule through them. Since WW2, no elected government had, until now, been deposed by the Army. Politically, the Army became as deeply divided as the nation itself, with many soldiers and officers in support o f Allende (including his friends, Generals Prats, Pulveda, Pickering). During the coup these forces were immobilised, often violently. The Junta itself appears to lean more towards the Christian Democrats than the traditional Right, but appearances may well deceive.

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Interviewer: First, w hat I 'd like to know i s . . . w ho is T im o th y L eary . . . w ho is he as a person? Leary: I’m a philosopher. I'm a psychologist, who has been studying the nervous system for the last thirty years. I’ve written ten books and hundreds o f articles. I probably know as much or more about how the nervous system works—the far galactic outposts o f awareness and the range o f human exper­ iences than any scientist around. happen to be a in prison, and that may seem o d d . . .a philosopher in prison. But I Save to say this about my profession, The best philosophers often end up in prison. If y o u ’re a good baseball player, you often end up in the * major leagues. If y o u ’re a really successful politician, you end up in Washington, I’m sorry to'say. If you ’re really a good philoso­ pher, if you ’re coming out with new ideas about the seven great destiny questions that are gonna rattle the walls o f the social in­ stitution . . . Most o f the men that I model myself after have been lucky if they got away with just being in prison for their ideas. As far as the general public's concerned y o u 're probably best k n o w n fo r yo u r views on drugs. When did y o u really get started w orking w ith drugs? Uh, starting in 1960 at Harvard University. . . What role? H ow? Well, for many years before that as a psychologist and once study­ ing the nervous system and knowing that the nervous system is the key to all human know­ ledge, I had been looking for instruments to see how the mind and nervous system works. And in the 1960s : all know very ong as modes well, o f expani i just 1microscopes, like ' id y the If you s are one o f the major 1 at it fro m a Y ou were 1 y o u ever go research vii iw, or every away from vith drugs tim e y o u « it it from were y o u li

impu : great questions 1 come from?, where i „ ig? We are on this planet, this spaceship Earth. How are we gonna get along with < ? How can w e use < leads? So I’ve always 1 :ed in find' our ne ment to an: o f life. I really gets science tions, gets d o f mystical, gets philosophic. It’s inevitable and I’ve accepted that responsibility. I think w e need at'this time a new philosophy. A re y o u ahead o f y o u r tim e? Is that w h y y o u h aven't been accepted totally y et? Yes, I’m in a kind o f a time warp. I’m definitely ahead o f i

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At this moment Timothy Leary, advance madman for a new age, i the maximum security wing of Folsom Prison. If the law has its w he will remain there for the rest o f hi* life. Illegally convicted twice on dope charges, Once o n the San Lui Obispo prison escape and spuriously indicted in the so-called Brot bood dealer conspiracy, Leary is looking at a deck stacked strong! against his seeing clear light for a long time. But instead of languishing in this central Californian hellhole v the mid-summer sun can turn a man’s brain into fried eggs, Leary risen to a level o f impressive vitality and productivity. He follow s rigorous routine o f exercise and physical yoga, counsels prisoners, several hours daily, devours information from every available med input, and carries on a voluminoril correspondeiWe. K In this prison interview, extraordinaryior its optimism and sel awareness, Leary analyses the times, recounts what it’s like to be i ed guru to a generation o f blown minds, and answers the critics w cBldder old Tim ’s eaten too much acid. a question whether I may the right direction, the great centre movesociety and science won't These are the risks far-out scientist takes. But I have the certain, empirical, “ "* ital proof that I’m not ong, because most g that I’ve said in 3, m y testim ony before mittees about how oid a drug problem this country; in those days I *"**— st alone as a voice saying ,a happen and beware, it happen, and I was d^jSretty radical; for g that marijuana criminalized, LSD e turned over to the ent, to be treated like fissionable material, like atomics . . . In the subsequent years most o f my prophesies have come true and many very conservative organs like the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric

Association, the American Association, even William Bi the conservative writer and vision star, they’re all coi around to positions that oonsidered radical in espoui in the 1960s. I believe y o u said ten yeari th a t y o u w anted to changi ’ tiritual level o f the Unite| •id you consider yo u rse l iessiah in a sense? Y o u s; ir own church. •ell, if you hadn't aske >ut drugs today, I woi brought it up. 11 ' the nervous system, 11. how we can use our km to make this country place, I talk about h o icrime and that sort of| want to point out th^j the one w h o’s asking, about drugs. Now, I I have to answer questions because I’ve been 1: say in prison, ‘it’s But, I've no more ti

drugs than Einstein has to do with the Atom ic Bomb. N ow , n o w . . . All the way through . . . Y o u never did ten years ago? Well, when I was lecturing, if you read my books, less than ten per cent of any book I’ve ever written, or ten or fifteen per cent of any lecture I’ve ever given, is on drugs, and usually the drug question came up in the question and . answer periods afterwards. Now when Albert Einstein got to the Particular heaven at Folsom Prison hell or wherever destiny led him, and he began talking about the equations of space-time and the relativity theory, I know that there’s a reporter or a television man saying ‘Yeah, Albert, but what about the Atom ic Bom b?’ And h e ’ll say, ‘Yeah, it ’s true that it’s those crazy mixed up kids who got ahold o f the atomic bomb on the base of my theories and blew up Nagasaki and Hiroshima . . . ' So I have to take the respon­ sibility for drugs as being one part o f the philosophy that I’ve been teaching and studying and working on. Did y o u n o t advocate L S D ? . . . the use o f it? No, I never advocated drugs. I defended drugs, different drugs, against unscientific charges. But as soon as you start saying mari­ juana is not a killer drug, whoo, you become an advocate . . . When did the various officials really start applying pressure? Well, I don't know how many Americans know this, but I have the honor o f being the person that started G Gordon Liddy on his, uh, meteoric career. As much as anyone in this country, I put Gordon Lii in the White House. H e was o u t after you, wasn t mt DA Yeah, he was an a scientific centre, studying consciou: Gordon was very o f course, there people that are on his trip, b u t : was a . . . The fi harrassed by th Saturday night. i my to my son and and in came 0 I ■ 24 H B B an. ly with

no warrant was throou ey d i d confiscate a little had on peat moss, which was a gera­ nium. But Gordon Liddy then ran for Congress on the basis that he had driven me out o f the county and from there he w ent to the White House as a drug expert. ' how did Gordon Liddy < be a drug expert? Be had fought Tim othy Leary. 1 has been w ell known, it’ testified to recently, 1966. Since then I have been in continual, uh . . . I know exactly how that system works—your phones being bugged, being harrassed and so forth. They tried it out on me before they tried it out on Senator Muskie and

Senator McGovern. Ten years ago y o u were giving advice. What k in d o f advice do y o u give young p eople today? Well, you know I’ve been off the air for three and a half years and I haven't given any advice. I’ve been letting other people take over to see how good the advise is they could pass on. My main rdvice to everyone is to . . . we got to learn how to use our heads. We got to realize that the ner­ vous system can be used as an instrument to help us understand why w e’re here and where w e’re oing. I think w e ’ve got to change, n 1976, America is going to be 200 years old. We're proposing that we organise a political party, but not a party o f one against another . . . a Birthday Party. We’d like to see the United States move into it's third century with the same spirit we had two hundred years ago. Now , as I look around since I've been back, I don’t see that Mr N ixon or the Democrats have a programme that’s going to lead us into the third century with this vigour that we need. We’ll limp or crawl or kind o f stagger into the third century, which I think is a tragedy. So I d on ’t have any ad­ vice for anyone. I’m just simply saying that w e’re going to be broadcasting our ideas o f hope and of confidence and o f courage . . . and we don’t say w e’re right, but God knows w e’re about ready for a new philosophy. It’s going to come. Would you give advice on the use o f drugs, nowadays? Yeah, I should do that, and I’ll look right into the eyes of everyone that’s reading this and say that I don’t urge you to take LSD in particular. LSD is the most powerful substance that the human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I’ve used the comparison of nuclear energy or fissional material. I think that in the right hands, the scientific and disciplined and hopeful people, it will bring about changes. But for, u h . . . I don’t want anyone reading this to get any other message, that I’m telling you to stay away from LSD. In the first place, 99% of what's called LSD, isn’t LSD. And 99% o f the things that are said about LSD are totally lies or fabrications. The whole thing is so confused now that I'll flatly make that statement. Y ou also said in the past that you are afraid o f heroin. You don t like heroin. > Personally, I don't like heroin at all. It’s a down trip. It’s an escape trip, and, although I'm an escape artist, I like to escape into life, not escape from life. I think that heroin addiction is like diabetes or it’s like epilepsy. There are certain people that just physiolo­ gically and psychologically are so wired up that they’re going to be attracted to this m ode of escape. And heroin addicts, there would probably be sixty or a hundred thousand if w e’d kept the money thing out o f it. It could be hand­ led by physical prescriptions, by doctors, just the way diabetics now use insulin. But if you pass­ ed a law against insulin, immedi­

ately the price o f insulin would go up, like the price of heroin, and y o u ’d have diabetics going around robbing and stealing to get their fix. But for me, heroin is no trip. Y ou’re sitting here in prison and what are you doing productively? The main thing I’m doing is taking advantage o f this oppor­ tunity to study society, from this very interesting vantage point. I’m talking to prisoners, I’m listening to them, I’m doing some writing. This is where it’s happen­ ing. It's a microcosm, you got all the raw essence o f human society here, this is where you can really see it coming down. And in some ways it may seem a cop-out for me to say this, but I don’t really trust any philosopher who hasn’t been on the other side of the system and som ehow seen it from the perspective o f the alienated, or the blacks, or those w ho’ve been pushed down in society. It’s a rare experience. It’s nothing I want to make a career of. It’s very easy to get institutionalised but, uh, see, it's ray ambition to really liberate the world. Why not? Why settle for anything less? I have a sense o f humour about it . . . I know that the odds are against me. But we only have a few years here. Let’s try to leave this spaceship a better place and all the models and all the philoso­ phers and all the men that I think have really liberated humanity have all done their time, on the outside. I want to get back in. I think I belong to American society I think that a society that impris­ ons it’s philosophers is playing with very bad magic. You just can’t imprison ideas. And the one thing that w e can see in societies that become constricted and repressed is that the life flow goes out o f i t It's a scandal, a national scandal that I'm here, and I’m going to make it clearer and clearer that, uh, you know, about this magic, tw o days after I was kidnapped, by presidential order, to bring me back to this country, that was January 18. January 20th, Watergate started to blow. So that Nixon, at that moment when I came back to the country, was at his peak. Look where he is today. And the king o f Afghanistan, who had invited me there and could have protect­ ed me but was o ff for a weekend, was kicked out just about two weeks ago. N ow I’m gonna be around as long as they are, and the ball game’s far from over, when y o u ’re dealing with philoso­ phical ideas. T h ey w eren't listened to before— your other ideas on drugs and so on. Oh, how can you say that? I think I had as much influence on events that went down in the 6 0 ’s as anyone around. There are millions of people all over the world who think I’m the greatest philosopher o f the 20th century. I know it may seem a joke to some of you, but you just can’t crush ideas by disregarding them. The government didn't listen to me, but millions of other people Y ou've been arrested m ore than once. The governm ent or the

Does it remain that way? Uh-huh, yeah. Well know n Senator? Very well known. Does the Senator k n o w ? Oh, sure. Three hundred o f the eighteen hundred people in this prison are here for drug use or sale, or whatever. Y o u said that you have to accept som e responsibil­ ity fo r the drug revolution. Do you accept the responsibility for them being here? Why, no, because if the govern­ ment had follow ed m y suggest­ ions ten years ago when I testified before Congress, we wouldn't have had this drug problem. I predicted exactly what would happen, laid it all out, warned them against it, and we created a new class o f criminals. You know in 1969, before N ixon took over, the Narcotics Bureau had a budget of twenty million dollars. Today it's two hundred and forty million dollars. It's an army of narcs going around knock­ ing down people’s doors, as you well know . . . And the drug use is going up. I could solve the drug problem in this country in six months. H ow? Well, it depends how much lee­ way I had. What I’d really like to do to eliminate all crime in this country would be to eliminate cash money. Now , I think y o u ’re very well aware that the drug problem, much to my horror and to my anguish, in the last few years has becom e very closely connected with m oney. In the early days, 1960, '62, '65, it was only a free, voluntary grouping o f people who were looking for new ways to use their heads and to find a new way o f life. But in the last five years, to my horror, a m oney situation has developed. Now when they bust a big heroin dealer they don’t say: ‘Well, it could have ruined a few hundred liv e s. . .' Mostly they say, 'Five million dollars, ten million dollars'. I think if we eliminated cash m oney, elimina­ ted personal checks, and had everything on the basis of person­ alized dockets, all m oney trans­ actions would be computerised in your bank. You could only cadi money in your own back this way. If there wasn't all this free, anonymous m oney floating around you wouldn't have dope dealing, m ost o f the crime would be knocked out. You wouldn't have Watergates be­ cause you couldn't have all those little White House people with their bags full o f this cash run­ ning around. Now , I'm glad to say, looking at the prison administrators, ‘ ' 1I thin! thmk that ‘ Folsom Prison has com e up with an experimental m odel of how to do away with financial crime. We have tw enty thou­ sand prisoners in this state who probably deal w ith several mill­ ions of dollars a year—maybe as much as twenty million dollars— with their canteen and their hobbies supplies and all that. And there’s no thievery with all this m oney being passed around, administered by the prison adminstration. The reason for 4£ Photographs by John Grissim

various officials claim ed that yo u had in yo u r possession drugs or marijuana. Were a n y o f those legitim ate? No. As a matter of fact I’ve never been legitimately arrested. I’m in prison now because one evening I was in a parked car, and a police­ man came up to the car and opened the door, against my wishes, and made a pass at the ash-tray and said: ‘Y ou ’re under arrest for . . . ’ I said 'For what?' He said ‘for Marijuana'. I said 'What marijuana?’ And he reach­ ed in his pocket and pulled out two joints that I’d never seen before, half joints, and said ‘You are under arrest’. A year later in Orange County, you know Orange County, the jury believed the policeman’s story and found me guilty for possession of mari­ juana. Now the judge, instead of getting me bail as I was entitled to for appeal, held up a book that I had been writing and said 'Your ideas are dangerous, and we're not going to give you bail and w e’re going to put you in prison to keep you quiet’. Now I'm not complaining because I think I should have been shut up then, I'd been around the United States for ten years, talking and spreading my message, and I think it’s good in a public life to have a chance to lay back and see what the opposition's going to do. I thought I’d lay back a couple of years and see how well the other side was gonna do. But last January, in Afghanistan, the American government agents (they're part o f that same L iddy-N arcotics Bureau group) stole my passport and, illegally, kidnapped me. I apparently was wanted back here. I think there aren’t very many philo­ sophies of hope and freedom being broadcast, so they may try to shut me up. Ya know, the people who have broadcast hope in this country, in the last few years, many of them are killed. I know it’s a risky job, but I’m here and I’m going to keep broad­ casting. Do y o u th in k the sentence was p u t on you extra tough because y o u are Tim Leary? In the first place I don't think anyone should go to prison for the possession of marijuana So it’s unfair for everybody. I don't think there’s any question though, that if another middle-aged, middle-class person was found with two of these in their pocket, they wouldn’t be doing prison time. But I am Timothy Leary, and I . . . I don't think it’s so much my ideas, because there are a lot of people running around the country preaching new ideas. The reason I’m in prison is because my ideas were listened to by millions o f people and got a little too popular. That’s my version o r it. Briefly, h o w did y o u get out o f San Luis Obispo Prison? Well, I’d like to say telepathy, telleportation, magic, that’s part o f it. I went over a fence. You had outside help? I was helped after I got outside. One o f the people that helped you was a Senator's daughter. It was Senator B lank in the book.

that is, they do away with cash, you can buy anything you want, that’s legal, but you have a docket; you know exactly how much m oney you have. You should have your own picture and your own thing in front o f it. What about brain damage by the use o f drugs? Do y o u think that y o u 've suffered any brain damage, whatsoever? Am I insane? Of course, that’s a very tricky question for anyone to answer. I ve lived through the 3 0 ’s, and the 4 0 ’s, and the 5 0 ’s, and the 6 0 ’s, and I think that anyone w h o’s still erect after those years has had his sanity tested. I’m 52 years old, facing the problems o f maturity and getting old. I’ve been through a lot of rough times in the last few years. My career has been ruined, they took my credit card away at Harvard and I’ve been harrassed by the United States government pretty heavily. And I’ve been in four prisons, all w ithout commiting any crime that I know of. I’ve been in solitary confinement for four months. In addition to all of these pressures I’ve probably pushed m y nervous system as much as any human being living. I’ve taken LSD over 500 times, I have experienced a wide range of these bio-chemical and neuro­ logical possibilities. I think I’m the strongest, sanest person around. Now I’m not making any guarantees for the future, but that's just my opinion. But then, you know, in m y position I have to really check m yself pretty carefully. Is there any objective in this? Well, I find that the people that I talk with, get to know me, seem to think I’m pretty sane. I’ve written two books just in the last few months and the book H ope Fiend got a quarter o f a million dollars advance. So som ebody at Bantam Books didn’t think it was insane. But, perhaps one o f the most com ­ forting things that I can think about as I wonder where my head is at, is that I know I’m in prison because they’re afraid to let me go around and express my ideas. If I were free from prison I would go back lecturing at colleges; you know, I always used to draw the largest crowds in the history of college. I could go on the platform with any psychiatrist, or philosopher, or government agent, and debate them, my ideas against their’s. And you know, if I am insane, m y government should be happy to let me out and let m y insanity be apparent to everybody. Now there’s some­ thing very om inous about this tendency to call anybody that you don’t agree with insane. A hundred years ago they said you were possessed by the devil, or you were a heretic. Twenty years ago, they said you were a communist. The really sophisticated totalitarian method now is to say that some­ one is a dissenter, that is against the society, is insane. In Russia now, very smooth, they take their philosophers and their dis­ senting poets and they don’t put them in Siberia any more, they put them in an insane asylum.

Maybe it is insane to be against w hat’s happening in the United States today, maybe it’s insane to try to have hope that some­ thing could be done about it. So, if that’s insane, count me in. But, otherwise, make up your own mind. Y o u ’re an o p tim is t. . . A hope f ie n d . . . Yeah, I've been called an irre­ pressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist. And 1 think that’s what’s running the country today. What do y o u th in k o f your future? Do you th in k you're going to walk out o f Folsom Prison a free m an one day? I think my future is very in­ tensely connected with the future of this country. You just can’t keep your philosophers in prison. If I am kept in prison, it’s going to be a very bad symptom for freedom and for hope and for union. After all, in a way, I’m a spokesman for millions of Americans, and h o w ’re you going to bring the country to­ gether if you re going to be lock­ ing up people that are saying things that many people believe in. It’s never worked before. While we've been sitting here and chatting, I ’ve been w ondering w hat's on yo u r shirt. This is a very interesting symbol for some of us. This is a replica of the remnants of a living organ­ ism, that was found on a meteor­ ite that came from inter-star or extra-planetary space. This is proof that life exists somewhere off our planet. Now w e feel that this is the first contact with higher intelligence, or somewhere out there, there is another point of view. And w e’ve taken this as a symbol of the new hope philo­ sophy that w e’re talking about. Now the figure 8 also represents the fact that it takes eight thousand dollars o f the tax-payers money to keep us in prison. It’s also the infinity sign, implying that the nervous system has an infinity of possibilities. Sometime in the fall, w e’re going to see in the sky a meteorite. Have you heard about it? It was discovered by a German astronomer. We call this light that’s going to come into our solar system, you can see it in the daytime as well as night, we call it Starseed and it kinda ties in with this symbol that w e’re visitors on this planet Earth, w e’re not going to be here very long, we gotta get back in touch with the greater picture, and it ’s a symbol o f unity and hope. Do y o u have a final co m m e n t y o u ’d like to m ake? I think I’ve said pretty much what I had to say. We re going to keep broadcasting, there will be more messages and w e’ll be glad . . . very glad to hear from anyone in the audience w h o’d like to keep this dialogue going. We wish to acknowledge the in­ valuable help o f John Grissim and ex-Oz art director, Jon Goodchild, for unearthing this exclusive interview and airmail­ ing it from San Francisco. Thanks lads!

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minutes, the agonising end with Noel Coward’s celebrated chauvinist ballad Don't L ets Be B eastly To The Hun. And when I discovered from the press blurb that the hom e movie sequences had dubbed sound (the originals being silent) made up by the film makers for ’period feel’, m y suspicions about their motives were vindi­ cated. Heil and farewell. D ick Fountain. ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE Director: James William Guercio (United Artists)

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THE LONG GOODBYE Director: Robert Altman The Long G oodbye is a travesty. A travesty of Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name; a tra­ vesty of Chandler’s archtypal private eye hero Philip Marlowe; a travesty of a cinematic tradition stretching back to Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep. It is, how­ ever, a deliberate travesty, a very carefully thought out and amusing­

ly executed movie to which, for most o f its length, only a truly fanatic Chandler admirer could object. From the opening scene, where Elliot Gould’s Marlowe tries desperately to please his finicky cat, it ’s clear that Altman is out to trash Chandler, to pay a final goodbye to the seedy, laconic, romantic and unbearably resour­ ceful Marlowe, the lone crusader against injustice immortalised by Bogart and Dick Powell. Gould’s Marlowe can’t even feed his cat. The wittiest wisecrack he can come up with is ‘Fuck you ’. He is pushed this way and that by tough cops, dumbshit mobsters, scheming women. At no point in the first hundred minutes does he control the course o f events. ‘It's OK with m e’ is his catchphrase. Chandler’s novel, upon which this film is so loosely based, was a somewhat overblown treatise on the death o f all moral values. Marlowe clung tenaciously to his code of loyalty, honour and truth. He didn't believe that his friend Terry Lennox had killed his wife. And in the end, he was proved right. In the film, though, Marlowe is conned, misused, abused. Lennox did kill his wife, did make Marlowe an accessory: 'What else are friends for?’ This is the crucial reversal in Altman's film. And it leads Mar­ lowe into his one big scene, his one independently initiated action. A scene in which Marlowe kills—executes—Lennox in cold blood, and is revealed as a truly dangerous man, a fanatic for justice in a world where justice has no meaning. This final scene doesn’t work. In attempting to deal the death­ blow to the Marlowe myth, Alt­ man instead contrives to ruin his own film. Marlowe’s actions are not justified by anything which has gone before. They appear com pletely arbitrary, Altman's final insult to an audience foolish enough to identify with such a hero. The L ong G oodbye is nicely acted, nicely filmed, but it’s a failure all the same. And one must suspect that Marlowe will be remembered long after Altman is forgotten. Andrew Weiner. EL TOPO Directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky El Topo is the mole. His life is dedicated to burrowing upwards towards the light. On seeing the light he is instantly struck blind. That image is offered the viewer at the outset o f Jodorowsky's film. From there on in, y o u ’re on your own. El Topo is a film with scant respect for humanity. The Mole, irrespective of his metaphorical questing role, is also another animal. Just like the bandits who beg like dogs for their porcine colonel’s leftover women, the townspeople and villagers whose incessant laughter is the braying o f donkeys; from the first scene o f human charnel to the last massacre, man is revealed as no better than any beast. Bestial in his actions, he still

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In one way Sw astika is an important film. The fact that it’s been released marks a relaxing of the taboo which has existed since the war around the whole subject o f Nazi Germany. Much o f the material has been held back until now because it was thought too corrupting for the delicate public. The whole official attitude smacks of medieval demonology: the Nazis were monsters possessed by unspeakable super-human evil, far too loathesom e for any rational discussion to be allowed. Swastika predictably deflates this sort of hysterical exaggera­ tion—the overwhelming impression o f much of the footage is ordinariness. No monsters, no horns, just people and politics (which to my mind makes the horrifying consequences more, not less, horrifying). The Hitler home movies show the genial Fuehrer and his dumb blonde doing their very polite and boring thing at Berchtesgaden. Goebbels pops in for tea every so often. Goebbels pops out again. Hot stuff? They com e across like a Chamber o f Commerce Christ­ mas Party in any provincial town. If Sw astika is useful in de­ flating myths and taboos so that once again we can be rational about Nazism, it is, however, no use at all for the most obvious and vital task, which is to under­ stand it. How did the movement develop? With whose support? How did it gain and keep power? Swastika is not at all interested in such queries. The very fo rm a ttwo hours o f clippings and cuttings with no narration, not even subtitles—is an abdication o f any comment or investigation in fav­ our o f pure appearance. A sort of pin-up parade for Hitler fanciers. This is perhaps not surprising as the producers are the same as those who gave us That'll Be The Day. Even this failure would not be a total disaster; no comment would be better than silly comment. But on the few occasions that an editorial nudge is given to the non-stop Nazi show, it is so silly and tasteless as to be breathtaking-the appalling opening w ith a card­ board swastika floating in 20018 style space for a full five

How’s this for a piece o f sym­ pathy for the devil: the adventures of a young policeman trying to get his lifestyle sorted out while patrolling the Redneck deserts of Arizona. John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) is a motorcycle cop, basically a nice guy, not out to ‘get’ anybody, playing it by the rules. But he wants to get o ff the bikes and become a detective, and in order to do that he is pre­ pared to stand by while a fellow officer plants a passing hippy and a senior detective roughs-up the inhabitants of a local commune. Eventually the corruption and bigotry around him becomes too much. His refusal to play the pig costs him his chances of promo­ tion and, finally, his wife. Electra Glide in Blue marks the entry into film-making o f James William Guercio (of Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears fame). Like most of what is good (but not great) in contemporary music, the film is heavily derivative of what has gone before. It has already been dubbed an ‘Easy R ider from the other side’, but the references

to other films are wider ranging. The senior detective is borrowed from Coogan's B luff. Wintergreen’s sidekick resembles, and meets the same fate as, Gene Hackman's bent narc in Cisco Pike. And there are tw o beautiful re-creations of scenes from Scorpio R ising (Ken­ neth Anger’s half-hour motorpsychic fantasy, which in retro­ spect is one o f the most influen­ tial films of the past decade). These references are used ironically, as a com m ent on the original material, and their effect is probably lost if you haven't seen the films in question. Unfor­ tunately, Guercio s own direction­ al style isn't as strong as his sources, and more often than not the irony comes o ff looking like plagiarism. He is, however, enough of a professional to make it all work as a piece o f entertain­ ment, and the overall impression is that this may well be the ultimate road film. N ot the best, by any means, but a kind o f summary of all that has been most interesting in Amerikan films o f the past few years. It’s significance lies in being not the 'other side' o f Easy Rider, but the other end o f the road. Clive Hodgson.

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has aspirations. Jodorowsky’s 'plot' divides into two distinct episodes, both o f which illustrate the Mole’s burrowing and search­ ing. Tracking his way, accompan­ ied by his naked son, across Daliesque wastes, the black-clad gunslinger is playing at God. A stern, just, retributive Deity. El Topo seeks perfection at the instigation o f a girl who calls on him to leave the boy. He defeats four masters of mental powers which increase in inverse propor­ tion to their physical attainments. But in the very moment of his victory he sees it as merely hollow and destructive. The girl leaves. He is crucified with bullets, literally—there are stigmata on hands and feet—and left for dead. Rescued, with obvious symbolism, by a tribe of cripples, mutants, all the victims o f in­ cest, he seeks to rescue them from their imprisonment deep beneath the mountain. Once again he takes on the mantle of

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BOOKZ WHAT THE CENSOR SAW John Trevelyan (Michael Joseph, £4.00) John Trevelyan is one of our few modern liberal heroes. His achievement by all accounts (especially his own) has been to secure increasing cinematic freedom while at the same time protecting the film industry from the harsh and arbitrary regime o f the obscenity law. So complacently does Mr Trevelyan accept this interpreta­ tion o f his life’s work that his book, while an interesting and amusing account o f twentieth century film censorship, fails to meet or even comprehend the alternative view that his cutting room counsels, institutionalised in the form of the British Board o f Film Censors, have under­ mined the anti-censorship move­ ment and have, in the long term, retarded the cause of freedom in the cinema. The BBFC is one gigantic confidence trick. It has no legal status whatsoever. It is constitu­ ted and financed by the film industry in the interest, not of freedom, but o f the industry’s own continuing profits. By an historical accident, films, unlike other media, are not subject to the obscenity laws. This unjusti­ fied privilege has only been retained by the BBFC’s proving itself more repressive than the law itself, wavinq its scissors in terror (Mr Trevelyan testifies) at Albert Finney licking an oyster in Tom Jones, symbolic buggery in Bergmann films, Molly Bloom ’s soliloquy, the mention of a cabinet minister in The Christine Keeler Story, and any attempt to depict the pleasures as well as the pains o f drug taking. This has nothing to do with artistic freedom, but a great deal to do with the profits of a film industry insured, by BBFC pre-censorship, against criminal prosecution. Having escaped the rigours of the law, one might think the film industry would show some concern for those less fortunate. Not a bit of i t The victims of censorship in this country, the real liberal heroes, have been small publishers like John Calder, Marion Boyers and Maurice Girodias, underground magazines and independent booksellers. They have struggled without financial or moral support from the wealthiest sector o f the Arts

—the film industry or any part o f it has not to my knowledge donated to any obscenity appeal fund, nor has it subscribed to the work o f the National Council for Civil Liberties or the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society, the only organisations struggling against the Longford onslaught. The film industry turns its back, pats John Trevelyan on the head for keeping it out o f the courts, and counts its cash, while insigni­ ficant publishers like Dobson and Wrate, whose work benefits the film industry by pushing for­ ward the bounds o f public acceptability, are sentenced to savage gaol terms for obscenity. Advances are only made by fighting for them. The acquittal of Last E xit to B rooklyn legiti­ mated novels about hom osexuality and the acquittal o f N asty Tales was a successful test case for the availability o f underground comics. Had Mr Trevelyan and the BBFC never existed, those battles might have been fought with similar effect over Clock­ w ork Orange and Last Tango. At least this possibility would have involved the film industry in the anti-censorship cause. Mr Trevelyan wants censor­ ship abolished, but does not realise that so long as the film industry occupies its elite position above the obscenity law, there will be no pressure from that quarter for reform. The smell of burning celluloid is just the sort o f irritant needed to stimulate a new attack on laws which are presently being used to gaol booksellers, but not cinema management, for giving the people what they apparently want. G e o ff R obertson. STRANGE ECSTASIES edited by Michel Parry (Panther, 30p) OK, so y o u ’re hip, you read Oz, you take drugs (don’t you?)— well, if you thought y o u ’d tried every mindblower in the psyche­ delic pharmacopeia, you ’re in for some surprises. T oday’s drug culture, from aspirins to heroin, coffee to marijuana, was written about long before it actually came to pass, and Michel Parry has collected together the best drug stories around from the genre that knew all about it before it happened; science fiction. H G Wells invented speed at the turn of the century, but his 'new accelerator’ was so fast that the world appeared to slow down like a 78 rpm record played at 33, and his protagonist was in danger o f burning up from friction with the air. Wells didn't like people much, from this story; his descriptions of Folkestone locals sitting in a charabanc, frozen in careless gestures, staring unwinkingly at eternity, are unnerving and verge on the paranoiac. There’s a plentiful supply of real bummers here, and I’ll get them over with now. Imagine dropping Clark Ashton Smith’s ‘Plutonium Drug’ (1934) and seeing your immed­ iate past stretching out behind you in bas-relief, and, worse,

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your immediate future—in the case of Sm ith’s hero, abruptly cut o ff in a dark alley. Or Arthur Machen’s ‘The White Powder’, described by H P Lovecraft as ‘the absolute culmination of loathesome fright! ’ and far too horrible for me to go into. On the good trips side, Chris Miller’s ‘Pipe Dream’ (reprinted from The National Lam poon) produced such envy and desire in me that I still haven’t recover­ ed from just reading about this superdope; everything that dope should be and never quite is, the ultimate high. Chris Miller has been described as the funniest writer since S J Perelman and this story is the nearest the collection com es to funky, freaky, comicstrip style humour. And there's Fritz Leiber’s gentle fable ‘The Secret Songs’ (1962), o f the omni­ scient crocodile invented by Gwen and Donnie, the modern couple, one on downers, the other on uppers. Other classics herein: Norman Spinrad’s ‘Objectivity’ featuring the imaginary hallucino­ genic Omnidrene (soon to be seen in action in the forthcoming Ogoth movie); Frederik Pohl's 'What to Do Until the Analyst Comes', Le. chewing euphoric non-habit-forming (?) gum; and more! I think I can safely say that if you are at all interested in either drugs or science fiction you will enjoy this book. Recommended reading position: horizontal, stoned, late at night. Caroline MacKechnie. half of the book and I for one was pleased to see Mr Aldiss lashing out the praise and awards to all of my personal favourites. Mr Alfred Bester, his classic Tiger Tiger (what Aldiss calls ‘wide screen baroque'), Sheckley, Pohl and Kornbluth, old Arthur C Clarke, Simak, James Blish, Kuttner, Harrison, Sturgeon-the list is endless, leading on into the New Wave of the sixties that sprang up around Michael Moor­ cock and that strange genius J G Ballard, who perhaps best epitomises Bill Burrouqhs' state­ ment that 'a paranoid is a guy w h o’s just discovered what’s going o n ’. Harlan Ellison and the dangerous viewers o f virions, Zelazny and Disch, Delaney, Sladek and Ursula Le G ulnn-the new wave is an ocean and the vigour of the old macho, semipsychotic hard core SF o f the Campbell/Heinlein masculine school has been trasnferred with a strong injection of grace and style into something that y o u ’d better believe is going places fast. Brian Aldiss has produced an informative and entertaining history o f the growth o f the leading literature o f our times. It should appeal to a great variety o f people from hard core, opinionated buffs, to the ignorant, for whom the genre is something vaguely concerned with space ships or robots and to whom I heartily recommend the Billion Year Spree. After all, they have nothing to lose but their brains. Chris Row ley,

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Science Fiction has com e o f age, out o f the Ghetto of Retarded Boyhood, beyond the Bug-Eyed Monster Barrier and, if Aldiss's judgement is correct and Sci Fi is primarily a creature of ‘prodromic utterance’, then its future seems sparkling, assured and widespread. We live in an age of science fiction come to life; Prometheus is not only unchain- ’ ed but he’s moved into our living rooms and even wears his slippers by the fire. To understand the twentieth century it will be to Wells and Aldous Huxley, Orwell and Olaf Stapleton that future generations will turn for an analysis o f our times. Aldiss, with great precision, derives two poles, an analytical one bound in conscious thought and descending from H G Wells, and a dreaming one, begun by Edgar Rice Burroughs, where Tarzan and his fellows battle ever onwards against colossal odds. Between these two, the genre we call Science Fiction is drawn and woven. Hugo Gernsback coined the phrase first, back in the twenties when he edited A m azing Stories and, although inaccurate from the start, it has gone on being applied to a wide range of stories. Here is Aldiss’s definition: ‘Science F iction is the search for a definition o f m an and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced, but con­

fused, state o f know ledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the G othic or postG othic m ould'. So for Aldiss, the whole she­ bang starts with Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, the first exposition o f the theme, at once atheistic and doom ed, of man's triumph over matter and, in the end him­ self (or not as the case may be). He slots in Edgar Allen Foe and a host o f Victorians as further pre­ cursors of the genre, and these early chapters are the best, simply because, with less material to discuss, his analysis is that much more detailed. By the turn of the century, with Verne and then Wells, he picks up speed. But on the whole Aldiss (a good scifi writer on his own account) misses nothing. He traces the coming o f Burroughs, the Gernsbackian tradition o f mech­ anical fiction and the eruption in the thirties o f E E ‘Doc’ Smith who really kicked o ff the billion year spree with such massive works as the Lensman saga. Then the forties, John Campbell and Astounding (the magazine that often 'smelt so much of the research laboratory that it should have been printed on filter paper’), the mad loony worlds o f A E Van Vogt, the robotics o f Asimov, Heinleln and his time puzzles. The birth, really, o f the present day tradi­ tions. Of course by now the rate of progress is fast indeed, an end­ less selection o f authors and titles takes up most of the latter

Curiouser and curiouser. It took until 1968 for people to start getting nostalgic about the '50s, but lo and behold, it ain't even 1974 yet and already there’s a hankering for the '60s in the air. And who should be leading the New Wave of '60s nostalgia but David Bowie. Curiouser and still curiouser. Pin Ups brings together songs by the Who (‘I Can't Explain’ and ‘Anyway Anyhow Anywhere'), The Pretty Things ( ‘Rosalyn’ and ‘Don't Bring Me D ow n’), The Yardbirds ( I Wish You Would' and ‘Shapes of Things'), Them ( ‘Here Comes The Night'), the Pink Floyd (‘See Emily Play’), the Kinks ( ‘Where Have All The G ood Times Gone'), the Merseys (‘Sorrow’), the Easybeats (‘Friday On My Mind’) and the Mojos (‘Everything's All Right'). So far, critical reaction has veered from the lukewarm to the downright contemptuous. On certain levels, the adverse criticisms have been justified, but it all com es down to this: what criteria are appropriate for dealing with this particular venture. All right, first the bad news. Bowie has failed to differentiate between songs he likes and songs that he can sing without m odify­ ing his basic vocal approach. Basically, B ow ie’s vocal style has been developed to express lyrics, and in some cases even act them out. Therefore, this approach only works with good lyrics. Since only ‘See Emily Play' and ‘Where Have All The Good Times Gone' have any­ thing even approaching what are generally regarded as good lyrics, most o f the songs collapse under the weight of what Bowie puts into them. In addition, most of the songs are r'n’b (albeit r'n’b once removed) and Bowie really isn't an r'n'b ringer, though he can sing in the appropriate style if he things he ought to. There­ fore ‘Rosalyn’, 'I Wish You Would' and ‘Everything’s All Right’ are well sung, and ‘Anyway Anyhow Anywhere’ picks up remarkably well after an initially disastrous opening where he tries to sing like Presley (Elvis, not Reg). With the exception o f 'I Can’t Explain', where an attempt to do a Vanilla Fudge slowdown coll­ apses almost instantly, most of

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BILLION YEAR SPREE Brian Aldiss (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £3.75).

PIN UPS David Bowie (RCA)

the tracks are very neatly arranged and played. Mick Ronson (guitar), Mike Garson (piano), Trevor Bolder (bass) and Aynsley Dunbar (drums) carry themselves like officers and gentlemen throughout. If you were into all this stuff first time around then you pro­ bably won't touch this with a ten-foot dlldo, unless someone tries to talk you into it. Allow me to try, however. If you app­ roach it as a fairly charming piece o f nostalgic self-indulgence, then y o u ’re not going to en­ counter any major barriers. On the other hand, if all these songs are new to you, then you're really going to dig it. Listen to Pin Ups in the spirit in which it was made and it's m ostly an okay album, and on occasion (particularly ‘Where Have All The Good Times G one’) it’s considerably better than that. One problem remains. What the hell is going on in the '70s that people are going to want to aet nostalgic about in the '60s? You gotta think ahead, y ’know. Charles Shaar M urray.

BEST OF SPIRIT Spirit (Epic) Spirit? They were well named. Even now, from this distance in time, they elude critical Judgements. What, exactly, were they about? The deadly cool Los Angeles soft rock o f Fresh Garbage and M echanical World with which they launched their career; the inspired post-Cream hard-rock o f 'I Got A Line On You' and ‘1984’; or the pure dumbness o f something like 'Animal Z oo’ or ‘Mr Skin’, tracks which nearly deny the title of this collection? Spirit, or at least the original Spirit who made all the music contained here, split up a couple of years back. The old story: musical/personal differences. But Spirit must always have been a pretty uneasy coalition: Hendrix trainee Randy California with his electronically modulated lead riffs; California's ageing jazz drummer stepfather Ed Cassidy—the mysterioso bleachedout Mekon adorning their early album covers; classically trained keyboards man John Locke, with his penchant for cocktail lounge tinkling; bass man Mark Andes, who wore a dress on stage three yeras ago; and microphoneswinging all-American boy vocalist Jay Ferguson. Andes and Ferguson quit Spirit first, to form their re­ markably lame all-American, flatout rock and roll band, Jo Jo Gunne. California disappeared. Cassidy and Locke formed a new Spirit, with a couple of auys called the Staehely Brothers, and even made an album. A second new Spirit then manifest­ ed Itself, this time a somewhat shambling power trio featuring Cassidy and an apparently brain­ damaged Randy California. This unit toured here earlier in the year and are also threatening to make new Spirit albums. In

point of fact, neither o f these bands bears much resemblance to the original Spirit, but both have ridden the legend for what­ ever it was worth. And apparently that legend must still be worth a lot for anyone to bother putting out this very belated tribute to the old Spirit—a band who never really broke through to mass acceptance, who scored only one US hit single ever, yet about whom people still speak in reverent tones. Spirit were a cult group with a cult following. They had no real image, no stable musical identity. They wrote some good sonas and made some beautifully produced albums and very few people ever heard o f them, except maybe their 'Fresh Garbage' on that ubiquit­ ous CBS sampler. In that sense, Spirit were perhaps a definitive late '60s Progressive Album band. And yet they were so clearly several classes above most of their contemporaries in that horrific category. Just why Spirit never made it remains a mystery to me. Musical/ personal differences? Inability to hold on to a definite style? Mass stupidity on the part o f the record-buying public? Structural non-functionalism? I don’t know. But I do know that Best o f S p t it is a fine album. A few of the selections are open to criticism, but overall this is pretty much the best o f Spirit, including their best song ever, Randy California's long-deleted 1970 paranoid opus single '1984'. That one, at least, still sounds as fresh as ever, and CBS should re-release it while there's still time . . . '. . those flexi-plastlc coppers th ey're y o u r special friends you see them every night th ey call themselves protection but you know it s no game yo u 're never out o f their sight

1984 knocking on y o u r door w ill you let it come w ill yo u let it run y o u r life?' A n d re w Weiner.

SUZI QUATRO Suzi Quatro (RAK) It’s hard to know about Suzi Quatro. The first time I ever heard o f her was when there was a full colour picture o f this lady in her black leather suit and snakeskln boots swinging a big old Fender bass. The first thought, I must confess, wasn’t where can I hear her single, but how can I get to m eet her. The caption informed me that she was from Detroit, that her hit single was a foregone conclu­ sion and that she was being managed by the redoubtable Chas Chandler. My carnal dreams faded. It looked as though the lady was too well protected to hobnob with the dopeflends of the town. Despite the leather suit, I dismissed her from my mind. The next time I came across Suzi was on Top of the Pops. There she was with this punk back-up band in black outfits

pumping it out while the plump little chickles lumped out at her feet in that graceless dance that the BBC seem to find so attrac­ tive. I’ve always been partial to Detroit rock and roll, and for that matter, equally partial to rock and roll bands in solid black uniforms. I gave it m y full atten­ tion, and, by the standards of that idiot pop show, it was quite a passable way o f decorating what might have been a very tedious three minutes. I happened across Ms Quatro next while idly leafing through a copy o f Penthouse. There on page nineteen was a grinning Suzi, in zips and chains, eagerly telling the Penthouse readers about the time she forgot to wear panties on stage, the time she had an orgasm on stage, the mail she gets from perverts. She went on to make it very clear that she liked big butch men, didn’t need wom en s lib, and faggots in makeup and glitter had no chance with her. Fair enough, she seemed to be establishing herself as a tough, heterosexual Detroit rocker bird, a refreshing pheno­ menon in a somewhat jaded pop scene. Then came this album. It has a black and white cover with tough little Suzi in the foreground, black leather jacket, jeans, thumbs hooked in her belt. The

band lurk in the background, one o f them downing a beer with a style and grace that any biker would be proud of. So far, everything about La Quatro seemed very fine. There seemed to be only one thing missing, and that, I fear, was the music. Suzi Quatro’s music has most of the ingredients o f most o f the best rock music that has come out o f Detroit in the last five years. The problem is that the mixture is not quite strong enough. If you compare it with, say, Back in the USA by the MC5, it be­ com es immediately apparent that the Suzi Quatro album just doesn't make it on that level. The question is, is it supposed to? The Rolling Stones playing 'Come On' was pretty damn inferior to Chuck Berry, but they were light years ahead of Billy Fury. In the same way I suppose Suzi Quatro serves up a product that is better than the average teeny fare. I ain’t ever going to play this album for fun, but I d on ’t think I'm exactly supposed to. There's just one other thing that bothers me. It took me a while to put a finger on it, but in the end I got it. Something about her reminded me o f Lulu, and it was all over. Mick Farren.

TRAFFIC-ON THE ROAD Founder of the Fillmores Bill Graham, America's top rock promoter, said this about Traffic on the road,

'...T ra ff ic is by far th e m o st outstan d in g band playing c o n te m p o ra ry music to d a y â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. This new, live double album set, captures the energy and brilliance of the early 1973 concert tour, and is specially priced at ÂŁ2.99 Produced by Steve W inwood and Chris Blackwell.

QUADROPHENIA The Who (Track) 'Inside, outside, where have I been? O ut o f m y brain on the 5 .1 5 ’ History should be written in the medium most relevant to the era under review. Undoubtedly in­ numerable words are on the way, indeed no small number have already been delivered, all intend­ ing to explain the phenomena that constituted the world o f the young in the early 1960s. The era of Mod. But the printed page can never do real justice, no matter how learned its contents, to an era in which music—its purveyors and its audience—set the scene. Quadrophenia, the Who’s latest product, or rather magnum opus, provides that history, and in the medium best suited to its telling. ‘Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory' said Benjamin Disraeli, a stylist of whose sartor­ ial elegance any Mod would have been proud. Quadrophenia is just that: biography, one lousy, screw­ ed up week in the life o f a Mod. His name, Jimmy. Tighter than the last opera, Quadrophenia has even more to offer. Facts and fantasy, frustra­ tions and stimulant-induced fun are dealt with by the Who, under the inevitable guidance o f Pete Townshend. There are so many strands worthy of discussion. ‘Punk and the Godfather’ takes up where T o m m y left off. The vicious circle o f audience and performer, trapped in each other's need/ conception of the opposite num­ ber. ‘Bell Boy', with Keith Moon on vocals, in part; a simple evocation o f the off-duty Mod, suffering, ‘always at som eone’s bleedin' ’eel’, other songs which evoke the whole world of the frustrated, alienated and always searching young, just ten years ago. ‘I don’t suppose you remem­ ber me, but I used to follow you back in sixty three’ sings Jimmy, and it all comes flooding back. But the music, essentially variations on the basic Who riffs, embellished with Moog, violin and horns, isn’t really what makes Quadrophenia so impressive a work. It is its undeniable status as a social document that grabs the listener. The anonymous liner story breaks the normally accepted schizoid level o f crazi­ ness, replacing a two-way split with a four-way improvement. Jimmy tries to come to terms with life—it is up to the individ­ ual to decide how far he’s successful. As to the success o f the whole album, there’s no prob­ lems for the Who there. But I bet the poor sods are dreading four years of playing this one on the road. Jonathon Green. GROUNATION Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation o f Rastafari (3-album set, Ashant, £4.99) Rasta Fari was the uncrowned name of Haile Selassie I of

Ethiopia. Upon his accession in 1930, the Rastafarian Movement was born in Jamaica out of the ‘message’ o f Marcus Garvey, a movement instilling the rich imagery o f the New Testament revelations and much o f the lament and prophesy o f the Old Testament, as in Psalm 137: 'By the rivers o f Babylon, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion’. Adherents, living a simple mountain existence and preach­ ing a ‘God in man and man within love' doctrine, have be­ come a Jamaican legend, due mainly to their more sensational traits—long, wild hair, colourful clothes and their sacramental regard for marijuana. Their ‘Back to Africa' banner has won them the hearts o f Jamaican youth, frustrated by the iniqui­ ties o f w hite society. Their music, primitive of rhythm and com­ plex of variety, has given the island a national sound—Reggae. Not that this beautiful album, a compressed expression o f the Rastafarian cult, is Reggae. It is tribal music, offset with per­ cussion, gleaming w ith emotive zeal. There are traces o f ’50s black jazz and Pocomanic gospel, but the whole is the ecstasy of resurgent spirit overcoming suffering; indignities o f the body, darkness o f the soul. There are uncultured, but not illiterate, poems of affirmation from Joseph Ruglass and a 15-minute narration to chanting steel band accompaniment from Brother Sam Clayton, who is also credit­ ed with the exquisite ‘Ethopian Serenade’ (source o f an un­ mentionable Byron Lee pop/ Reggae hit). The traditional ‘So Long’ is

magnificent, as is the 30-minute ‘Grounation’. This latter, Ossie frothing a frenzy on bongoes, is a hotch-potch of traditional folk and Rasta tunes, many o f which have been adapted to Reggae hits (the Ethiopian’s ‘Selah’ and Gigingri’s ‘Zioniah’). A re-working of ‘Oh Carolina’—the mid-sixties disco rave cut some 12 years ago by The Folks Bros backed by the Count Ossie Afro-Combo, is also featured. I cannot see this masterwork appealing to the bland ears and butterfly minds o f the New Decadent, whose notions o f Jamaican culture are limited to the bus conductor or ‘What S o u l’, the party showpiece. But I love it and my heart goes out. Penny Reel. TAKIN MY TIME Bonnie Raitt (Warner Bros) Bonnie Raitt’s voice is that rarity in rock: a sound which thrills the ear and gladdens the heart. She took a while to sink in, mostly, I guess, because I never expected to hear a white girl sing w ith such soul and flair. She reminded me of Van Morrison. On this third album she sounds more relaxed and confident than ever, phrasing with sweet muscula­ rity and generally being every bit as devastating as I expect her to be. She has occupied a central place in m y affections for almost a year now and, coming from someone who has had a different favourite girl singer every three weeks since he first heard Connie Francis bounce through S tu p id Cupid, that’s some recommenda­ tion. Though the instrumental work on her last LP Give It Up

had a definite jazzniks-jammingwith-Bonnie flavour, its highpoints were two of her own songs —the accoustic ballad ‘Nothing Seems To Matter' and ‘You Told Me Baby’, where she cut loose with a rocking sixpiece band. This time producer John Hall has done the obvious thing by creating a recognisable group sound on seven of the ten tracks, centred round bass, drums, Bill Payne’s piano and his own electric guitar. The lady sings the blues, tender ballads, Mose Allison, saucy calypsos and even whoopit-up trad numbers, but is at her best on a group of tunes by such underexposed young American songwriters as Jackson Browne, Joel Zoss and Eric Kaz. Browne’s ‘I Thought I Was A Child’ reveals him again as the m ost succinct and characteristic song-smith since Tim Hardin, and Bonnie is the best possible advertisement for him. She also illustrates that The material does not always show her to best advantage and the production contains a few minor flaws o f taste, particularly the horn and vocal arrangements and some curiously geriatric harp by Taj Mahal. It’s problematic, since she is so brilliant, that it must be hard to assemble a group good enough to back her. Maybe the Allman Brothers could carry it, and capture the exact blend o f accuracy and spontaneity which turns a good album into a masterpiece. An authoritative producer should be able to make her next album into a landmark on the scale of M oondance or Gasoline A lley. Really. You better believe it. Bonnie Raitt is the girl singer of the Seventies. M yles Palmer.

C/iunc/er/RICHARD NEVILLE

Telexfrom Australia... This apocalyptic missive fro m our re-patriated fo u n d e r was dictated at speed and staggering cost over trans continental telephone fro m M elbourne, Australia. A s usual, Richard had missed his deadline, and n o thing has really changed excep t the sc e n e ry . . . A famous Australian opera singer, the perpe­ trator of Peach Melba, was forever announcing her absolutely final last stage appearance. Oz carries on in the same tradition, and I wonder just who is laughing all the way to what bank. (At the rates you 're charging for feature articles these days, Richard, I should think it is most likely the Bank o f New South Wales -Ed). But Felix is almost psychotically persuasive and smilingly promised during a green milkshake a great issue, folks. So good evening, how are you, goodbye. This dispatch comes from Melbourne amidst the rigours of a weekly newspaper schedule. I don’t know how long I’ll stick it, but strangely I’ve been enjoying bringing it all back home. No doubt this delirium will wear off in ten more minutes, but coming back to Australia, I am stunned by its high voltage exuberance and almost bullying aura of nation­ al self-confidence. Proud Aussie faces peer from daily papers with captions announcing et more indigenous inventions: a chemist nds a flu vaccine, a schoolboy produces a pocket measuring device of utter precision and simplicity, a backyard mechanic designs an engine that’s said to be better than Wankel’s. People everywhere seem aglow with ideas and radiant with relentless energy. Especially the State politicians, whose daily cabaret of dishonesty and fraud makes the Nixon follies seem like a sideshow at the wrong end of a telescope. It’s old time Chicago without Elliott Ness. The disclosure of a State Premier’s enormous stock holding in a develop­ ment company doesn’t bring a blush here, much less a resignation. When the President of a prominent building society was discovered stashing away bread, the New South Wales Premier cited the gentleman’s war record and the matter was dropped. The underground paper Digger reprints copies of search warrants left by the cops during a drug raid. They were all blank, except for an obliging JP’s signature on each one. A mild inquiry pun. But at least it’s an inquiry, and that’s what's different about coming back to Australia. It’s waking up. This Rip Van Winkle of a conti­ nent, dozing serenely in the Antipodes for 23 years, more or less given up as a deadhead redneck by the rest of the world, suddenly one day gets up and dances on the coffin of the defeated Liberal Party. Foreign policy attitudes somersault, Trade Unions achieve sanctity, draft dodgers are set free and the Last Tango is danced all night. After seven years’ absence, there are slicker rhythms and higher expectations. Standards have improved, even if the inspiration is often plagiarism disguised by Strine. There is still a materialist rampage-Sydney is a skyline of builders’ cranes and glistening Insurance companies. But the people are beginning to rub sleep from their eyes. While the National Trust tut-tuts about preserving heritages, it took the chesty bronzed builders' labourers to step in and stop the bastards. The builders have imposed green bans' on development projects they consider detrimental to the

community. There are now boycotts on const­ ruction projects worth three thousand million Australian dollars and developers are growing angry. As I write, all sorts of radicals, from old time individual layabouts to gutsy resident action unions, have united with the builders and are brazenly battling with police in the streets. In an extraordinary and fertile alliance of libertarian politics and union muscle, hard hats and longhairs have seized the initiative. But this is only a few acres among millions. Along the beautiful North Coast the tower blocks march to the Pacific Ocean. The mayor of Surfers’ Paradise, in replying to observations that speculators’ eyesores block the sun from bathers, claimed seriously that it was a victory in the fight against skin cancer. The newspapers are awash with huge, glamourised landscapes of real estate, beckoning irresistibly to those with a mania for owning their own backyard. A lifetime of mortgages for a quarter acre of nowhere. And behind many a suntanned Bazza’s smile lies a valium prescription, the most popular pacifier in Australia. After dark, the road that winds through the beaches of Sydney is lit mainly by the displays of all-night chemists. Australians gobble down drugs even if they don’t make you high. ‘We have the most expensive urine in the world’, commented a medical professor on the local lust for vitamin tablets. There is too much to tell and I haven’t begun. More important than another national profile, thislast Oz picture show should con­ tain the seeds of continuing enterprise. In a way, Oz has come full circle, and yet it contin­ ues in myriad tributaries, with Felix fiddling with the frontiers of graphic art, not to mention countless other streams of communi­ cators whose origins are linked with the butterfly years of Oz. The first issue of The Living Daylights, named after a forthcoming novel by my sister, (two plugs in one sentence, the man's insatiable -E d) was published on October 16th in Mel­ bourne. It sold like the proverbial School Kids Oz. The second issue, out last week (my time), outstrips its 46,000 run by the second day. So who knows? Somebody outback is looking for something, even if it doesn’t turn out to be The Living Daylights. As a gesture to the future, and to let loyal Oz veterans catch a glimpse of the continuing saga, printed below are frag­ ments from the editorial of TLD No.l: Hi6f6 must be some W3y ou ts here Put crudely, there are three choices available. ONE: Recognise the system for what it is and join it. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may to build a fortress of waterbeds, weekenders and quadraphonic swimming pools. CHOICE TWO: Kickback. This can mean taking to the streets, mastering dates they didn’t teach you at school, attending meetings, immersing yourself in the class struggle and backing whichever radical political organisation seems most likely to succeed without tiring. CHOICE THREE: and this is bowling ’em over like ninepins. Render

the system as irrelevant as possible by setting out upon one’s own search for inner tranquil­ ity, which can involve drugs, music, sacred texts, meditation, hitting the road, guru hunting, body disciplines, brown rice and so on until one can ultimately squeeze the trigger on a profound personal mystical experience. Of these paths, we suppose many of us stagger along one, lose our way, drift awhile, discover another, meander some more, play some old time dance music, truck truck truck along yet another trail which is ill lit, deceptive­ ly charted and probably around the bend. We hereby declare that the 19th century pseudo scientific working model of the world, the mainstay of socialist theory, became fully obsolete in 1945 when J Presper Eckert Jnr and John B Mauchly unveiled ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania to reveal the world’s first digital computer based on electrqnic impulses. From that pioment the West began its blind climb to the brink of plenitude, ro r the first time in history it became possible to conceive a rational future of the world pre­ mised on the abolition of scarcity. The reign of the work ethic is over. Today’s revolutionary demand is full unemployment, for those who want it. The right to work becomes the right to hang loose. IN AUSTRALIA IN 1973, ANYONE WHO WORKS IS EITHER A FOOL, OPPRESSED OR BELIEVES IN THEIR JOB . . . Isn’t OM all you need? NO. But some of the best minds of our genera­ tion are coming up with ways to explore the universe of inner self and we remain open minded, indeed excited, by the new Skylabs of the Psyche. Quick to ridicule the prevailing spiritual hunger are intellectuals, their own spirit numbed by years of immersion in the expedient doctrines of empiricism, rationality and objectivity. Ironically, the most influential contemporary pioneers of the new mysticism are all defectors from the shrine of academic methodology-Carlos Castaneda, John C Lilly, Richard Alpert and poor mad Timothy Leary. However unpalatable it may seem to the classic mind, the fact is this. Since the mid 60s, hundreds and thousands of intelligent, curious, sensitive young people in the Western world have tripped out on LSD and/or other hallucin­ ogenic drugs. A proportion of these people (who knows how many?) have testified to experiencing a profound mystical phenomenon, which drives them to a calm frenzy of spiritual exploration, often altering their whole way of life and personality, sometimes sending them a bit loco, sometimes really cooling them out, and always leaving them aching for more . . . But all explorations must be bound by a matrix of social realities and we look for a fusion of psychic sailors and swashbuckling politicos to contribute to creating a vision of tomorrow, as well as ftirnlshing the tools to execute its occurrence.. As we said, give Marx a joint and ask Buddha what he’s going to tell the tree executioners. , , See ya next last issue of Oz . . .

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hora’s thinking, Drifting, dreaming down deserted dabblings in delight, Wandering woefully w istful whither wonder wends. Hoping helplessly, harmlessly, heeding her heartbeats. Bored to fucking death w ith standing here under these bloody lights which may be h ot but it's still goddam cold and that may make her nipples perk up without any icecubes but it still gets the goosepimples going. N ot only that, punters, not only that, but the poor girl’s not even called Thora in the first place. Brenda, maybe, Suzy, Lulu, who the hell knows. Or cares, for that matter. But the silly fuckers in the art department wrote on the board that they only had a T left in that particular type face so what can a poor hack do? And even if she Is thinking, so what? If she's thinking anything its how much she hates this gig and how much she’s irritated by the photographer, and what an immense amount o f contem pt she finds herself able to summon up as regards the men w h o’ll be buying whatever mag it is that die's being sold to this time. Mean, isn't she. Cynical bitch. Look at her. Little slu t Naked, perverse, if you ask the average buyer. Sick, filthy, all that flesh. What she needs is a good ...

Now, that’s what y o u ’d like to do. Look at that fourcolour flesh. AU that printed artifice flaunting itself. Brazen, shameless. That knife, the h a t ... Think about i t ... what you could do with the knife. Hack and slice, and cut and eviscerate and disembowel and tear and mutilate and wrench and rip a n d ... Oh ... Ohhhh ... Ooooooohhhhh'.HH Mmmm. Better now? Relieved ... satisfied?? Big deal. Of rather, tough shit. Thora, or Brenda, Suzy or Lulu, is impervious to your throbbing miseries, miles, psychic and physical from your tragic aspirations. O ut o f reach, utterly beyond you. One look from you, mate, she’d be over the hills and very far away. After all, a girl's got taste. And y o u ’re strictly not part o f it. Nasty. Sickening. Saddening. It’s all the big con. All the easy lay that couldn’t be harder. The 50p for fuck-all. The come-on that leads merely to yet another rip off. Sorry punters, suckered in again. And you love it. All the w ay to death. Oh, Thora. Or Brenda, or Suzy or Lulu or ...

Come As You Like Dear W anker's W o rld -T H E BIG ONE M EN LIKE, I’d like to tell you something that happened the other night. I'd just got m y selection o f books out by the b e d -n o w , mind you they’re not all the ‘h ot stuff' that WW-TBOML is, but not bad a n yw ay-th e other night, and you’ll never guess what happened. Well, it was just the other night and there I was, my books, and I’ll not deny it, th ey’re not as ... well, you at WW-TBOML know what I mean, if you see what I mean, y ’know, right, my

books, all out by the bed. Or now I think about it maybe it was the sofa. Or the bed. Y ’know I’ve always preferred the sofa for some reason, so maybe it was the sofa, or perhaps ... Anyway, sofa or b e d -o h , yes I just realised why it must have been the sofa, because m y brother A lf’s 12 year old daughter came to stay one time and if you looked very carefully when she leaned back you could just about see right up her ... C hrist... I've run out of 2p b its ... Oh hell, oh ... By Phone-A-Fantasy. Dear E veryone at Wanker's World, This is real, though you probably don't believe me. My wife is twenty nine, I am thirty three. Our alsatian is

eight. (56 dog years). That means, if m y maths is correct, that subtracting her age from mine and doubling the remainder we have the age o f our beloved Ripper, I’d be interested to hear from your other readers who have had similar experiences. Hey-ho, H H., Park Lane Dear Wanker's World, You know what I’d really like to do. Probably not. So I’ll tell you. After all, it’s ruddy awful think­ ing up all these bizarre delights if you can’t burden some poor bastard with them all. So stand by and I’ll let it rip. You see most of the time I work in this office and no doubt

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Is y o u r stereo doom ed? D oes hifi equal h i finance? Is quadrophonics ju s t a fo u r way con?

There is an unhealthy trend in current music business thinking away from live music and tow ards people living th eir entire music life w ithin th e confined com forts o f th e ir ow n hom es. Ju st witness th e huge increase in the num ber o f ‘live’ album s now on sa le -n e a t, packaged concerts ready to be sw itched on and o ff from th e arm chair. I t’s n o t th a t I’m against a b e tte r re­ p roduced sound m ind you, but w hat I w ant to see is a clearer distinction betw een acknow ledgedly recorded and reproduced sound, and attem p ts to recreate th e original perform ance. This swing away from live perform ances is partly due to the now highly developed art o f live recording—m illions o f mikes leading to th e m obile recording van parked behind the stage. But m ostly it’s due to the hifi system explosion on the record-buying m arket. W ithout hifi, live album s ju s t w ouldn’t be possible. It was th e classical music fans—the staid, stay at hom e, electrical engineering ty p e s-w h o pioneered stereo p h o n ­ ies, and now , w ith the ‘new, 4-channel, surround-sound quadro­

phonic system ’, th e y ’re again breaking new ground. The original idea behind th e developm ent o f quadrophonics was th e recreation o f th e am biance of the concert h a ll- th e little bit o f echo and reverberation from the back o f the hall. It’s this th a t creates th e feeling o f presence, th e feeling of actually being there, and th e best way, it was decided, to get this o u t o f a hifi was to have tw o m ore speakers at the back o f a room . Of course it doesn’t really work: any room has its ow n size and echo and w hat concert hall quad trys to do is dw arf the effect o f th a t w ith th e recorded am biance. On the o th e r hand, if y o u ’re n o t ju st co m m itted to re-creation b u t to creation o f a new and possibly devastating effect, th e p o ten tial o f quad is exciting. Ju st as stereo, in th e hands o f innovative rock music­ ians, moved from being m erely an atte m p t to re-create the A lbert Hall to exploring sound separation, so to o could quadro­ phonics be used to open up new fields. B ut does—as th e num erous blurbs in th e sound magazines claim -th e q u adrophonic system ren d er the stereo obsolete? Or is it really ju st an excuse to sell m ore gear; a bit o f technical gadgetry to tu rn the ‘fi’ in hifi in to ‘finance’ rath e r th an ‘fidelity’? F o r q u ad rophonic sound sure doesn’t com e cheap— roughly speaking it’s double th e price o f a stereo. There are essentially fo u r parts to any reproducing system: th e program m e source (tape, disc or tu n er), the co n tro l unit or pre-am plifier w hich controls and adjusts th e signal from the source and feeds it in to th e pow er am plifier so th a t it is strong enough to w ork the speakers. W ith q u ad rophonic, however, you need n o t ju st tw o o f everything as for stereo, b u t f o u r fo u r channel program m e sources, fo u r channel pre-amps, four pow er am ps and four speakers.

In addition, as it ’s extrem ely difficult to store four channels o f sound on a record, quadrophonic also needs a decoder. At th e m om ent there are three main system s o f decoding being plugged by three separate groups o f com panies. Two o f them w ork by reproducing signals contained in the existing stereo groove a little out-of-phase. Out-of-phase is a bit like fucking w ith som ebody you do n ’t know to o w ell—occasionally y o u ’re pushing and th e y ’re pulling, or th e y ’re pushing and y o u ’re pulling. E ither way y o u ’re o u t o f rhythm . Norm ally on a stereo when one o f the speakers is alternately going w hoosh while th e other is going w oof, y ou miss a lo t o f sound. But w ith a phase shift system , th e decoder uses the fact th a t the signals are deliberately recorded out-of-phase to generate an­ o th er signal, or pair o f signals, to be fed to the tw o rear loud­ speakers. The third system —the CD-4—is m ore com plicated. Stereo happens because each side o f a record groove has a different wiggle and the stylus tracks in tw o different directions giving tw o signals. W hat th e CD-4 system does is to p u t tw o signals on each side o f the record groove. This is done by using the same process as is used to p u t tw o signals in to stereo radio: th e fro n t and rear signals are added together, making the main wiggles; th en the fro n t is sub tracted from th e rear and slo tted in to th e groove, b u t at tw ice th e frequency. This system uses a m ultiple d e c o d e r-n o t th e same as an SQ or QS d e c o d e rw hich takes th e tw o signals and then mixes them to th e follow ­ ing recipe: added signal (L+R ) plus subtracted signal (L-R) w hich means th e tw o R’s cancel o u t to give L (a t tw ice the strength); added signal (L+R ) plus subtracted signal ‘reversed positive to negative’ (-L+R) w hich m eans th e tw o cancel o u t to give R (at tw ice th e strength). Phew!

But all three system s have th eir faults, som e o f w hich are detailed in the follow ing chart. The biggest tro u b le w ith th e phase shift system s occurs w hen a q u adrophonic record is played on a stereo or m ono system ; phase shift has a habit o f occasionally losing an in stru m en t o r a voice altogether. Discrete (CD-4) is fine on this score, b u t w hat y o u ’re asking o f black plastic and stylii is th a t they cope w ith wiggles three tim es as fast as the present lim it (2 0 ,0 0 0 wiggles per second). If y o u th in k o f how quickly records get w orn and how quickly delicate w iggles-the to p n o te s -g e t knocked off, y o u ’ll realise th a t a record w hich has 60 ,0 0 0 per second isn’t going to last to o long. But th ere’s an even bigger problem w ith CD-4: as the decoder unit is the equivalent o f tw o separate radio tuners, SYSTEM

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th e re’s a lo t m ore circuitry to pay for. And on to p o f all this, as there’s still a battle over which com p an y ’s product will becom e standard, the serious seeker after q u ad rophony will have to go for the w hole ro tte n deal and buy equipm ent, especially a decoder, w hich can cope w ith all three systems. If y o u already have a stereo system and y ou w ant to go the w hole way, y o u ’ll need another stereo am p as well as th e extra speakers. I’d recom m end th e Sony SQA 200 com bined decoder and second stereo am p (£66), or th e smaller SQA 100 (ab o u t £50). There is an o th er way to get a four channel program m e source, and it’s probably the one w hich will win in th e end. Tape, w hich doesn’t need a decoder as it’s possible to record all fo u r tracks on one place, will replace black plastic. In fact m any cu rrent tape m achines already have w hat their m anu­ facturers call ‘four track capability’. This m eans th a t, for a small sum , th e y ’ll w hip o u t th e existing ‘four track ’ head (w hich actually plays tw o tracks one way and, when turned over, tw o tracks the other way) and replace it w ith a tape head th a t records and plays back fo u r tracks at once. Likewise w ith cassettes. B ut a w ord o f caution ab o u t cart­ ridges: forget them . The endless loop they w ork on means th e y ’re m echanically sloppy and, no m atter how easy they are to convert to four-track-head operation, their frequency res­ ponse will always be bad. And som ething else for the future. A bout seven years ago when I was th e only one around who had a stereo and there were rows three deep in fro n t o f Sgt. Pepper, I said w ithout thinking to o seriously: ‘T h at’s nothing. The logical extension o f this is n o t fo u r tracks b u t eight tra c k s-o n e at each vertice o f the ro o m ’. I t’s still only a dream and this new fangled q u ad rophonic is still only tw o dimensional (th ere’s no up and dow n in it, no vertical inform ation). M eanwhile, you can still achieve an am bient effect w ithout buying a quadrophonic decoder, or a second am plifier. All you need is a second pair o f speakers, some wire and a close look at the diagram below. This idea is the brainchild o f David Hafler and it w orks because, even w ith ordinary stereo records, there is always a little out-of-phase inform ation. You d on’t hear it because it isn’t as loud as th e main signal, unless it’s deliberately accentuated on tracks like Saucerful o f Secrets and A Day in th e Life to give th a t weird sucked-out-into-thespace-betw een-the-speakers effect. If you wire up the tw o ex tra speakers as show n, th e y ’ll pick up all the out-of-phase sound w hich is m ostly either the am bient signal o f th e concert hall if it’s live classical music, or, if it’s rock, th e kind o f out-of-phase notes you get o u t o f a synthesizer. F urtherm ore, since the quadrophonic records on th e Pye QS and CBS/EMI SQ system are, by definition, packed w ith out-of-phase inform ation, y o u ’ll get all that com ing from th e rear speakers too. The only difference is th a t th e rear sound w on’t be spread o u t in so m uch detail as th e front. Finally, as the rear speakers w on’t actually draw nearly as m uch signal as the fro n t, y ou need n o t pay as m uch for them . So there you have it. If you have wisely purchased the stereo system I recom m ended in th e March 1973 issue of Cream, you can have quadrophonic, even w ith th e cost o f th e tw o extra speakers, for u nder £100. T hat m eans more m oney to spend on records and less inclination to spend all y o u r tim e in you r lonely room because y ou w on’t feel so beholden to your system. Y ou could even get o u t there and help bring back real live music.

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LINK WRAY Recording debut in 195I. Track year* ahead of ij* time, "Rumble11. On Archie Bleyer1* Cadence label. Track1* futuristic outlook. Uted a tremelo activated by turning a knob on hit Premier amplifier Moved around a number of record Com­ panies, Epic and Swan. Signed by Poiydor in 197!. Releated two album*. "Link W ray", "B e What You Want To" 1

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Bom Amsterdam, December 194*. Musical career began with accor­ dion, age 3. Guitar six. At school in Dutch rhythm A bluet band*. ScholAihip Amsterdam Music Lyceum. Studied guitar 5 yean. Formed Johnny A The Cellar Rocker* The Hunter* 1946 until 1968 and then Brain box Joined Focut. "In and Out o f Focus" released 19 71. "Moving Wave* 11 late 1971. Jan Akkerman solo album* rcleaied, “ ProAle", play* lute and guitar, recorded before Focut. Earlier album "Guitar For Sale".

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B. B . KING Bom on plantation MiiaiMippi Delta, 19 1} Muiically influenced by Uncle, Diango Reinhardt, 'Robert Jr.' Lockwood. Fint tana pro­ fessionally St. John Go*pel Singers Moved Memphis 1947. 1949 lame a* linger and dilc iockey Radio WDIA. 1949 Ant recording* Bullet and Ram label*. "Three O'Clock Bluet" Ant hit entered R A B chart* 19 51. Fin t touring bandt953. Known a* 'King of the Bluet' Due guitar ttyle, impaitioned tto tinging inAuenced gentre1 of mutician*. One of mayor inapiraliom British 'R A B ' revival of sixties. 19** signed A BC Dunhlll.

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H A R V E Y M A N D EL Born Detroit March n th , 1945. Formative musical year* Chicago. Fin t guitar at sixteen. Play with bluet men, like Buddy Guy. Teamed up Barry Goldberg, Charlie Mussclwhne. Eddie Hoh. Several album* for Buddah in 194* and 1949. 1969 "Righteou*", "Game* Guitar* P it / 1. Joined Canned Heat. Played . British tour 1970. i97« joined John Mtyall band. Signed as Janu* Records *olo artist. Two album* released "Babby Batter1970, "T h * Snake" 197a. Released 1971 "G ett Off in Chicago". Most recent album "Fiddler On The

Leslie Harvey born Glasgow. Fint recorded work on Alex Harvey LP, “ The Blue*11, recorded Germany 1964. Joined his brother1* band until formation of Stone the Crows 1969. Slone the Crow* made music for three yean. Untimely death by electrocution Swansea May 1971. Stone the Crow* made four LP 1* featuring Leslie Harvey. “ Slone the Crows", "Ode to John Law", "Teenage Licks11, "t'-ominuous Per-

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P E T E T O W N SH E N D _____ to the Who. Several hit single*. Rest of the group: Roger Daltrey, John Entwtitle. Keith Moon. Album releases: "M y Generation", “ A Quiet One” , 1,The Who Sell Out". "Tom m y", “ Live at Leeds". Com­ pilation of hita, “ Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy", "W ho1* Next". Pete Townshend solo album, "Who Came F in t". Performance of "Tommy11, Rainbow Theatre. All star cast, with Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Richard Harris, Stevie Winwood, Richie Havens, Maggie Bell.

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Bom November 30th, 1953 Son of Johnny Otis. ("Mb. He's Making Eve* at M e", "Willie And The Hand Jive". Critically acclaimed albums "Cold Shot11, "L iv e At Monterey" "Pioneers of Rock, Vol. 3” .) Played on these albums. First recognition when he recorded “ Cold Shor" in 1968. Album with Al K 00per, "Kooper Session” "Young Man Of The Year" award Leonard Feather's L.A. Time* column. Contract with Epic Records. First album "Here Comes Shuttle Otis" in 1970. Shuggie is abbreviation of 'Sugar1.

Bom 1943. Played in Little Richard's band 1944 spotted by Chas Chandler. Brought Hendrix to England Immediate sensation. The

Longview, Texas, 1934. Playing guitar since age ten. Moved to Chicago. Involvedwith Magic Sam. Syl Johnson. Recorded "Country Boy" 1936. Discovered 1960 by Federal A A R man Sonny Thomp­ son. First session "Have You Ever Loved A Woman". "Hideaway" hit in 1961. Instrumentals sold hmvily until 19*3. Signed King 1964. Joined Cotillion 1968. Shortlived Joined Shelter

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