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Description Contents: The asl t issue, nudes & Nixon cover. Allman Brothers & New York Dolls ads. ‘The Last Issue’ editorial by Felix Dennis + Jim Leon graphic. Enoch Powell into Hitler strip by Roy Knipe. ‘What Went Wrong?’ – David Widgery’s goodbye to the counter-culture + Red Saunders photo of Christ with Coca Cola. ‘In Search of the Almighty’ – Timothy Kidd on American tourists. ‘Once It’s Started’ – short story by Mick Farren + graphic. Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin graphic by William Rankin. ‘Everybody’s in Showbiz, Everybody’s a Star’ - Jim Anderson on redundancy, travel, and puppet theatre. Full page Ogoth/Cozmic Comics ad. Warner Bros ad/goodbye to OZ letter from Derek Taylor. ‘The ueS de Jackboot’ – a speculative guide to fascism and latent fascism in Britain by Duncan Campbell + illustrations by Bill Sanderson. 2p A&M Records ad. DJM Distributors ad. ‘The trS ange Case of Southall Police Station – police racism by Don Atyeo + illustrations by Paul Simmons. “Goodbye OZ but the music of Santana lives on” CBS ad. Other Guides ad. Film ad for The Rocky Horror Show. Dracula Annual ad. 2p Climax/Private ads. Centrespread photo from 100 Years of Erotica. Full page John Lennon Mind Games ad. ‘The akM ing of a Junta Culture’ – Dick Pountain on the end of democracy in Chile. 2p ad for Pink Floyd’s A Nice Pair. ‘Jailed Drug Cult Guru Speaks: “They ooT k Away My Credit Card” – an exclusive OZ interview with Timothy Leary + photos. Eddie Kendricks and Marvin Gaye ads. Compendium Books ad. Film reviews: Swastika, Electra Glide in Blue, The Long Goodbye, El Topo. Playpower ad. Edward cartoon/OZ back issues. Charisma ad. Rand H. Holmes cartoon Book reviews: What the Censor Saw by John Trevelyan, Strange Ecstasies edited by Michel Parry, Billion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss. LP reviews: David Bowie Pin Ups, Spirit, Suzi Quatro, The Who Quadrophenia + Rod Beddall illustration, Count Ossie, Bonnie Raitt. rT affic-On the Road ad. ‘Telex From Australia…’ by Richard Neville. Graphic by Adrian George. El Topo ad. Ad for Yoko Ono’s Run Run Run/Men Men Men. 3p ‘Wanker’s World’ dirty book semi-parody. 2p Imported porn ad. ‘Quadrophony’ – Eric Robbie on quadraphonic sound systems + Mike Moore graphics. 2p ‘Death Poem’ and Martin Sharp Van Goch/Superman montage – “Please Clark – don’t walk out on me! You’re the only secret identity I’ve got!” Time Out, Speed inc, Grounation ads. Inside and back cover ‘The uitG ar Album’ guitarist cigarette cards.

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No space - no tkpgiTOstory repeats it the wall giles October 31 o’clock the pmll|L’sJ(iis^deadline c How does one words for a magazine (dami magazine) that has eaten^ ,e last five years of my life, and a lot of ©tner peoj es besides, For many of us, ‘working’ at OZ point of our daily existence. A hideous form ;e between humans and an inanimate concept. Anc 11 marriages 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 of us can believe it. The names of those specifically responsible for the production of 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 of 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 of the profits of this magazine will be paid to the liquidator of OZ Publications Ink Ltd., for distribution amongst the creditors of that Company. lutain y i Leon. Jim by Illustration THE LAST ISSUE OF OZ Published and copyright November 1973 by: H. Bunch Associates Ltd., 39 Goodge Street, London W1P 1FD 01-580-6104 Editor Distribution Manager Felix Dennis Howard Fraser Production Manager Advertisement Director Dick Pountain Jim Maguire Art Editor Advertisement Manager Richard Adams Jann Scott Assistant Editor Reviews Editors Don A tyeo Charles Shaar Murray Typesetting/Art Production Dick Pountain Caroline MacKechnie American Bureau Jim Garfield Jon Goodchild Without Whose Help . .. Roger Hutchinson, Chris Rowley, Jonathon Green, Phil Franks, Edward Barker, Maria, John Leaver, Pat Woolley, Tony Elliott, Satty, Marva Rees, John Grissim, Eugene Schoenfeld, Denise Winn, Andrew Fisher, Maybelle, Malcolm Livingstone, Bruce Sawford, Jean Piuck, Da Bells, Anne Hopkins, Derek Watson, Tony Pruim, Jo and Vinny, Brian Moore, Insp. Luff and Quimby. Distributed byMoore-HamessLtd.,31Corsica Street, London N51 JT. 01-359 4126. The centre spread pin-up is from the book 1 0 0 Years o f Erotica by Paul Aratow, published by Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco. ______‘He who fears change, fears dope and sex funny paper ed for ‘publicity problems’. busting fund is to be used on life itself’—Marquis de Step- format. Unshaken, the Hibbing wining and dining his poofter penville. From Detroit’s effer­ balladeer re-applied to public school chums, many I t’s over half a year since vescent Creem magazine Kibbutz Dfar Blum for of whom are proprietors of what most of you probably comes a genial renaissance places for Sarah, his wife, the very newspapers to which assumed to be the last Oz of alkiedom—The Alice and the kids. At press time Wilcock refers. John Wilcock (faithless bastards) appeared. Cooper Alcohol Cookbook; there was no word from is 83. Richard Ingrams died Our cohorts in the AJtpress a quaint conglomerate of Dfar Blum. By publication, last year of cranial syphillis. haven’t just stood still— drink recipes provided by of course, it might not even At a time when youth here’s a summary of develop­ Ally & the boys in the band. exist. . . Unless the New market publications are ments on various fronts. Gay Our particular favourites York jewry hot up their invading the world of pub­ News, the persistently excell­ are Baby’s Blood (1 ounce efforts. On the night that the lishing like the black germs ent fortnightly fagrag, having lime juice, 4 ounces Jamaica Israeli/Arab war broke out, in Aspirin ads, the Reverend ploughed along for more than rum, & 2 dashes Angostura these gentlemen netted David A Noebel has chosen a year on home-made distri­ bitters, shaken with finely 825,000,000 as contribu­ to offer the world his own bution, is now on the Moore- cracked ice) and Tunafish tions to the war effort... unique perspective on such Hamess circuit employed by Malted (for hangovers—1 a similar collection in Man­ phenomena as The Beatles, IT, Pri vate Eye, and this can tunafish, 2 scoops pista­ chester some days later Youth Communism, Mari­ magazine. Michael Mason, chio ice cream, four ounces gathered £1,000,000. Infla­ juana and Hair. ‘The Beatles— GATs business manager, says cream). Mix & drink heart­ tion? Don’t know the A Study In Drugs, Sex And that the paper’s aim, as always, ily until prepared to face meaning of the word . . . Revolution’ (what a title!), is to ‘bring nomosexuality 20,000 screaming teenage Yorkshire Underground distributed and printed by into the daylight’—and with maniacs . . . And, slightly Press Magnate John Wilcock Christian Crusade Publica­ a circulation tnat’s grown nearer to home, news seeps (Other Scenes, Village Voice tions, Tulsa, puts JPG&R from 4,000 to 18,500 in a down from the emporial and Oz regular) has also been exactly where we never knew year, they ain’t doing so Grays Inn Road offices of helping the needy, with a their asses were—slap bang badly . . . Wardour Mews, Time Out that they were £50 donation to ailing geria­ at the cyclone-centre of Soho, seedy home of IT for recently visited by an eccen­ tric comic Private Eye For its Communist Insurgency. the last 18 months, was tric old lady anxious to fly ‘fight against hypocrisy and Well, who else w ould force recently witness to another to Chile and file reports on lieing in Fleet Street’. It seems upon the gullible public such convulsion in that magazine’s totalitarian atrocities. Her Wilcock—a one-time Mirror neo-Bolshevist sentiments as development. With sales name was Mrs Fischer, and man—was burned by his ‘back in the USSR/You dropping and winter coming her son, the World Chess former brother hacks on a don’t know how lucky you on, tne staff decided to take Champion—not an individual recent deal to write five mini­ are’? . . . some time off and produce noted for his liberal political columns for the Inside Page Delightfully British Comment IT as a monthly, with more views. ‘I don’t have much to following a 25-year holiday of the Year Award goes to pages and more time to work do w ith Bobby’, quoth Ma, in America. Grasping Eye Colin Sm ith of the Observer. on them. This move necessi­ ‘but he’ll pay the air fare . . .’ editor and amateur rapist Sent to cover the Indian tated a hasty abandonment Wandering Jew Bob Dylan Richard Ingrams has threaten­ occupation of Wounded of their gangster-owned applied to a Kibbutz near ed to issue writs against those Knee, South Dakota, Mr premises and a scattering of Afula, Israel, and was reject­ suggesting this new hack- Smith was overheard to equipment like manna amongst comment: ‘If only someone friends across the city . .. If would say, “When the moon you haven’t seen it yet, comes over the mountain make sure you do: Foul is and the leaves fall off the the very First alternative trees on the night when the soccer magazine, and it’s al­ cherries turn red, we will ready achieved what we’d attack the long rifles”. All considered impossible— I hear is, “ Yeah, man—cool exciting and honest sports i t . . . and w e’ll study this journalism . . . procedural matter later Called in to revamp the tonight”.’ . . . stagnant rock mag Cream,Ed Paranoia at Broadcasting Barker and Mick Farren were House runs high—news train­ more than a little put out ees at the BBC were instruct­ when their first new-look issue ed to monitor every word was cancelled half way through uttered by the newly printing. It seems that the launched commercial London publishers Plant News, whose Broadcasting service on main stock in trade is Osmond their first day of transmiss­ Brothers souvenirs and cut ion. Working in half-hour price tit mags (including the shifts, the embryo Robin traditional school boy jerk Days began at 6 am, and took book Health and Efficiency), comprehensive notes around had suffered a North country the clock . .. On the subject bust on a selection of their of potted plants, Tower girly books. In the ensuing Bridge was recently closed panic they decided to kill the to traffic twice in one day entire Cream project feeling to allow a 30ft plastic that the last thing they need­ rubber plant to sail back and ed was Mick and Ed’s new forth on the prow of a pleasure boat. This event Disc are all owned by the marked the start of a cam­ same company, IPC. paign to 'make the British Two Timothy Leary more aware of the pleasure Stories—During Timm y’s potted plants can bring’ . . . six-week sojourn in Vienna Air hostesses on Quantas he came across one Izak airlines are to lose £1.75p Haber (of Oz/35 Abbie a month as a result of the Hoffman expose fame). Equal Rights Bill. The Haber, introduced to Leary money was a hairdressing in the course of an extended allowance which,according acid party, for no accoun­ to Quantas, ‘now discrimina­ table reason hit the refugee tes against men stewards’ very hard in the face. Leary, ... a survey recently made with commendable psyche­ by a Los Angeles neurolo­ delic cool, rose and left the gist indicates that 8.8% of room. Haber was last heard men and 17.5% of women of in Uganda, making a have difficulty telling their movie. The Life & Loves of left hand from their right General Amin? Leary, when asked to identify meanwhile, continued the them quickly. Could this trans-continental drift that explain the odd case of was to culminate in his Harold Wilson? arrest in Afghanistan, and Unspeakably Chickenshit bumped into Richard (Baba —the revolutionary cosmic Ram Dass) Alpert in Switzer­ rock band, Hawkwind, re­ land. ‘Richard’, commented quested United Artists to our affable magician, ‘you withdraw their single Urban seem to be getting gooder Guerilla from the market, for and gooder, while I get fear that the general public badder and badder’. Alpert’s might (mis) interpret its (doubtless philosophical) title as being connected in rejoinder is not on record. any way with the spate of And research scientists bombings in London. Robert in Tel Aviv are getting very Calvert, co-author of the excited over a small flower song, said recently: ‘The which they believe might be words of the song are not the answer (?) to heroin meant to be taken too addiction. Papaver Bractea- literally. It certainly isn’t tum contains a drug called advocating violence in the Thebaine, which can chemi­ streets’. My word, Mr Calvert! cally be transformed into We should hope not! . . . naloxone and noltrexone, IPC fans will be heart­ both known to be narcotic broken to learn that this issue antagonist agents . . . is the poorer by one feature These amusing drawings o f Enoch by Roy Knipe were originally The quaint fetishes of and one review commission­ commissioned to illustrate a feature article on Powell in this Tory Ministers in Britain ed from the NME’s profess­ issue. The article was to be authored by John Lloyd, ex-ink know no bounds. Polaroid ional punk and Lester Bangs editor, ex-Time Out editor and recent recruit to the official snaps of prostitutes shitting impressionist, Nick Kent. ranks o f the Communist Party. Lloyd, currently collecting a on the face of Cabinet Approached by our represen­ grossly inflated salary at London Broadcasting (who isn’t these Ministers were bad enough. tatives, this young aesthete days?), finally turned in his piece two weeks late, in two instal­ Recently, however, we hear agreed to supply us with a ments, with a request that it be published under the curious that two high ranking feature on the delights of pseudonym Bill Nicholas. We make no apologies for sparing Oz government officials have Detroit and a review of T. readers the tedious task o f reading it. Between them, Commer­ been engaged in an even Rex’s ‘Great Hits’ album. cial Radio and the British Bolsheviks appear to have addled the more bizarre leisure time However, he has been spend­ brain of this formerly sensible Scot. . . . activity—Budgie Bashing. ing so much time playing Apparently, these demented Boswell to the stoned perverts are in the habit mumblings of Keith Richard few of the less adequate distressing Kent and every of purchasing budgerigars that he not only didn’t turn staffers on both rags have other ex-underground press from the pet department in the copy, but he didn’t been feeling remarkably hacks they can lay their of Harrods. The hapless even call us to say so. Super­ paranoid. The lucky ones get hands on to imbue their birds are stuffed in the toes stardom is contagious. fired. NME, currently well pages with castrated outrage of Wellington boots and Further excesses at IPC ahead, and Melody Maker and outdated u/g layouts, crushed to death during involve the imminent amal­ have been employing consi­ while MM have retreated brisk morning walks across gamation of two sagging derably different tactics in into frenzied reaction and Hyde Park. Christine Keeler weeklies, Disc and M elody their running circulation feebly contemptuous put- come back—all is forgiven . . . Maker, into one even more battle over the last two years. downs o f everybody less boring giant weekly to be NME has employed over­ tedious than themselves. Som e o f this is by Roger edited by Richard Williams. weight, ageing whiz-kid Readers need hardly be Hutchinson . . . the rest Since the news leaked, a Charles Snaar Murray, the reminded that MM, NM E and isn’t. ‘Q. Would you conclude this interview with an observation on the counterculture of the "60's? I assume that it is less than a node, as yo u call it, o f the com ing reversal. A. No, it’s simply part of the larger process, the most recent burst o f energy in the continuing struggle to create a real revolutionary culture. In its demise as a movement, it too makes its insights to the battle at large, and indeed some aspects of it (like this joint I am about to light) I admire very much. But it just can’t last into the dying light o f capitalism. It takes more o f us than that, and more different kinds o f us’. from An Interview with Donald Duck by David Wagner, Radical Am erica Vol7 N ol. The underground never even got a decent Inspector Luff at the Oz trial, quite right­ funeral. It is simply recorded that some­ ly. The popularity of Oz’s atmosphere, thing that started out in a duffle-coat in (no matter how incomprehensible and the direction of Aldermaston pegged out downright boring the actual magazine) in a back room full of unsold comic books was, especially to working class kids, an and barbiturates. The real, unlikely index of the end of decades of post war people who, in pub rooms and over deference, evidence of a new refusal to duplicators and behind scaffolding stages any longer even pretend loyalty to the made up a movement, have not been asked Queen, The Law and The Empire. Already to comment on the corpse. A new genera­ the obscenity and dope trials of the tion of groovers can’t see what all the fuss sixties look like light comedy compared is about. Apart from desultory cries of to the massive police operations around Bad Dope and Its The Pigs Again, there the Shrewsbury building workers’ con­ is no explanation, an almost self-induced spiracy trial or the Winchester bombs trial. amnesia. Which is a pity because no But they were the first omens of a new movement can begin again except out of legal viciousness, the opportunity for the some understanding of its own history. police to cut their teeth and the Special And that history is so personal and in­ Branch to enlarge its files. They could tense it has become virtually psychiatry take the Angry Young Men out to lunch, (psychiatrists being simply the historians but the hairies had to go to jail. of the recent past) alone offering explana­ It was not the case that sufficient tions of why earstwhile rebels decide to numbers were ever arrested to halt the become sheepfarmers, Stalinists, senior movement and that government-organised lecturers in Deviant Sociology, recluses, spies set about wrecking it, as undoubted­ ‘rock writers’, commercial radio hacks or ly happened in the late sixties in America. live unhappily ever after in a groovy Anyone using the word repression about nuclear commune in the country. what happened to Oz and IT literally The truth of the matter is not that The- does not understand the meaning of the Leaders-Sold-Out or that-something- word. But the combination of coppers on greatly-beautious-grew-cankered, but that one hand, the liberal embrace and the underground got smashed, good and pampered sensibilities of the groovier proper by exactly those forces of which it merchant bankers, commercial nabobs stood in defiance. It was smashed because and corporate impressarios on the other it could not, by 1968, be laughed at or was deadly. ignored or patronised any longer. The The national papers of the underground underground was able to make really pain­ had to exist in an almost wholly hostile ful attacks on the system’s intellectually world where survival alone, each issue, based forms of power. Of all the intellec­ entailed an epic of cheque-bouncing and tual property speculators of the 60’s, it bravado. They variously stumbled, made the most sizeable incrusions into victims of their own cheerful apoliticism, capitalism’s ideological real estate, the into a major trial of strength with the family, school, work-discipline, the ‘im­ authorities simply for the crime of not partial’ lawcourts and the British Broad­ being hypocritical. The strain and worry casting Corporation. Unlike previous and energy drain utterly disorientated movements of radical arties, it actually their editorial strength and traditions and transmitted its mood of indiscipline to led to a situation where the papers rocket­ young people of all classes. ed down hill in quality just at a time when ‘It is an attack on family life’, said more people than ever before were show­

ing an interest in them. For although nominally democratic and open, the papers were so dependent on a small im­ provising editorial aristocracy that the disappearance of a single person at crucial stages could completely alter the paper’s atmosphere. The unstructured, unpredictable pro­ duction methods of the underground papers, if focused outwards and in con­ tact and in trust with a movement, could produce remarkable committed journa­ lism (IT in the acid heighday of ’67, Black Dwarf after ’68, Frendz throughout the Mangrove Trial and the last 12 issues o iln k ). But exactly that structure could become an office coterie bound together only by a passion for self-promotion and unabashed ambition, whilst the general loyalty and openmindedness of their readers was increasingly exploited by ht b Rd Saunders. Red by Photo

writers who prided themselves on their record companies and, although rock are obliged to feel nostalgic over exper­ resemblances to the Lunchtime O’Boozes’ reviews were the only things taken iences they never even had in the first automated copy production, drunkenness seriously by most readers, their authors place. It is a pity that music (which alone and despair. could scarcely conceal their own bore­ makes it all worthwhile) being made by This desperate hackishness was all the dom. English and American musicians now more pathetic in people who actually This process of defeat was complicated, offers solely the choice between mock still had ideals, but simply could no and often illustrated best, in cultural urban menace (Mott, Bowie, Reed, half longer find words for them. The beats details. It is a fairly glum tribute to the the Stones) and a phony countrification had been evangelical, CND determined underground’s struggle to be able to (other half of Stones plus everything else). sane but desperate, the Underground express yourself in the clothes you wear It is quite literally pathetic that a move­ capable of great moral wrath; the that such a counter revolution has been ment succoured by cannabis and raised collapse into plain old cynicism, the old­ effected by commerce that anyone not in electrifying affections of acid should est crutch in the book, was a real full dressed like a possum trapper on stilts is grow old jittering, crying and quarreling stop to a movement, however hard you trying to look like a Tory tennis player with itself on the comers of Gerrard tried to stick spangles to it and call it of the late twenties. It is a bizarre 15 Street or in a mandraxed haze at the back decadence. Increasingly, elements always years which starts with girls revolting of the classroom. Marx, in a footnote to jostling around in the underground, the against court shoes and twin-sets in favour ‘Capital’ describes the opium trade as a love of fashionable intercourse and the of existentialist black sweaters and jeans revenge against imperialism. What more dependence of the good offices of ad­ and ending up having to wear them again. cunningly wrought revenge is possible vertisers, became dominant. IT became It is strange that the system won’t even than for flowerchildren to wind up little more than a mouthpiece for the leave our memories alone, so that people Continued on page 66. his year seven million tourists will come to London. You can see three million of them any morning in the Abbey, shuffling through like a bread queue, Search of Tglumly absorbing the babble of misinform ation put out by the coach guides. The other four million are in the Tower, stand ing in line for two hours to see the Crown Jewels (though sometimes the queue to see the Execution Block and the axe is even longer, and what that says about human nature I’d rather not think). In the afternoon they all change places, but in between times the coaches herd them through the Changing of the Guard, past the Old Curiosity Shop (which isn’t) and over London Bridge, which has been sold to the Americans. On Sundays all seven million swarm round to Petticoat Lane, which is this little secret place they’ve heard about, where you know the stuff isn’t stolen because you can see the dents where it fell off the back of the lorry. Most of these visitors are Americans. Some of them say to each other: ‘Shoot, Martha, let’s do this Europe thing in style. Let’s hire ourselves a car and just take o f f ’. Then the husband steps outside the hotel, takes one look at the London traffic, steps back inside the hotel and says: ‘Liss’n, Martha, why don’t we just call up one of these car-guides and relax ’. And the hall porter, who can scent fear at twenty paces like a buzzard, says: ‘I’ll organise that for you sir’. Hall porters are interesting. They have a club called The Golden Key, which is slightly more exclusive than the House of Lords and considerably less impoverished. he just grew his hair long and he wears Philip of Spain came over here to marry Hall porters have little things going for bell-bottomed trousers and all we ever Mary Tudor in 1554, he leapt off the themselves in the fields of car-hire, wanted was his happiness but he just ship crying ‘A stoup of English ale!’, theatre tickets, abortions, light ladies . . . goes around enjoying himself. . . ’ drank it back, and threw up on the spot. and driver guides. So their hope is that Europe, at least, So anyway they take a few unhappy sips So the porter calls up and asks for a will understand them and appreciate and eat a sad cheese sandwich. This is private car and a young guide to drive it. their sacrifice. And the old whore is where we get confidential. What the visitors are after is a taste of old willing to do one more turn for G I Joe, —‘Do you have a—uh—black problem Europe, a whiff of decayed gentilesse; but not for chewing-gum and cigarettes here?’ what they actually get is some unemploy­ this time. Still, they enter generously into —‘Oh yes, I say, pretending to mis­ able—an actor, student, or a subversive the spirit of the thing. Every dollar understand. The blacks do run into underground playwright like myself. It liberated over here affects the American problems. They find it hard to get decent may cost ten times as much as the coach balance of payments and weakens their housing and jobs. Their children can have tour, but at least they can go to the rest­ economy, but they seem to see in the a tough time at school. And you may find room whenever they like (this, inciden­ piranha rapacity of the Europeans some this difficult to believe, but they some­ tally, doesn’t mean they want to go and kind of vindication of the capitalist times even run into racial prejudice.’ lie down). system. - ‘Oh. (Pause). Do you have a-u h - So one puts on the old school suit, the I once watched a Jumbo 747 coasting hippy problem ?’ ancient tweeds—a bit shabby amj shiny in over Windsor Castle, clipping the To m isunderstand all is to forgive all. now you understand, but good quality Queen’s television aerials. The American Not that you don’t get a few freaks, once, like the Empire. And one holds the with me was deeply moved. ‘Boy’, he even in middle America. Whereas some door open for the wife which makes her turned to me, steel spectacles glinting, would argue that the whole of middle feel secretly degenerate, but also: ‘Well, ‘look at that planeload of people. Just America is a gigantic madhouse, 1 myself you should be doing that for me, Wilbur’. think of all that money ’. do not subscribe to this view. Since the And you mention about your parents’ ‘We like it here’, they say as we streak recent disclosures the visitors have been place in the country and which restau­ along the M4. ‘You have so much tradi­ markedly subdued. ‘This is the Traitors’ rants to avoid because they’re such rotten tion. Oh would you look at that. Isn’t Gate’, I say at the Tower, adding help­ tourist traps and they just love your that a shame. You wouldn’t think they’d fully: ‘It’s original name was the Water­ accent. allow th at.’ That is a new housing estate, gate’. The wife giggles; the husband gives Then you explain that you haven’t got built by a Labour council. Yes, Lady. We a lifelike imitation of a corpse. an accent, th e y ’ve got an accent; and they would all rather be living in rotting, No, they are sadder but wiser out love that too, only not quite so much. peeling warm-hearted Charles Dickens there in Boulder, Col. and Amarillo, Tex. Thus are the legions of middle America, slums, or thatched and mullioned Tudor The Vietnam war actually made them godly folk from Akron, Ohio and Fresno, parsnip-lofts. We would prefer that, be­ more aggressive ‘Wluiddabout Ireland Cal. Some of them just want to buy some­ cause we have so much tradition. then?’ they'd snarl and anyway Her one young to talk to, their own children ‘And this is a traditional English pub’. Majesty's Government was happy to having given up at the age of fifteen: Here, traditionally, the tourists buy the crawl up Nixon’s arsehole. The saturation —‘Well I don’t know, Ranald, I really guide a drink. They decide to try your bombing of Cambodia was, as sycophan­ don’t know. We did everything we could English beer and bravely pro'eid In like tic T'-» ' !< r v.ri'rrs :ir:- tri'd for for that boy didn’t wc Ranald, and then it. No; all viaitois an. o puli c 'VIi r: i . i I.it i in ih lei i e ( I ChauvinismlTlMOTWi KIDD dynamic, careerist, working his balls off Poynter. Malcolm by Illustration daily at Automated Ployfiber until he In summer they’re everywhere-the men in tangerine sports shirts andH R collapses at fifty-four with a coronary Haldeman haircuts, the women with butterfly sunglasses and cracked make-up. so that she can swan down to Miami Beach and lay it all on some suave young Dispossessed by their children, drowning under the flood o f Watergate, they’re the Cuban exile . . . Normally he keeps quiet legions o f Middle America, the urban guerilla-ed, the pill happy millions who in order not to appear a fool in front of prowl the concrete paths o f Stonehenge searching for new his wife, but ask him about his job and he starts up, excited and grateful as a prep-school boy on a Sunday exeat. The other romantic couples are the honey- mooners hoping to while away the long dark hours of daylight. They blink at the memorials in the Abbey, yawn steadily round St Paul’s, the husband sighs at Anne Boleyn’s execution, the girl goes sparkle and coo at the Crown Jewels, and I think we’ll finish early this afternoon. We visit Stratford. Not many of Strat­ ford’s three million annual visitors have much interest in, or knowledge of, the Bard. One elderly man did shake me by reciting from memory the most inven­ tively obscene stanza of Venus and Adonis. His wife looked like she’d heard it before. But most of them have no interest in Shakespeare, nor do they even want to go to Stratford: what they want is to have been there and to prove it with the Zeiss Ikon colour slides and Mom’s Instamatic prints and a few post­ cards just 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 that Shakespeare did after he had given Anne three child­ ren was to take the road to London. The lady who runs the little soft-drinks kiosk across the road from Anne Hathaway’s cottage—now no doubt wintering in freedom and democracy. But a little and hoped to gross a million in charitable Bermuda—says that up to fifty coaches a domestic buggery is going too far. donations to himself. day visit it in August. As they all leave So middle America transferred its Then there was the Latvian from Riga, London at the same time, they all arrive hopes and dreams to Spiro Agnew, of who had fled from the White Russians, the simultaneously. Two thousand people in whom they used to speak in the same Wehrmacht, and the Red Army. He a small Elizabethan cottage in high way that their comrades over here speak arrived in America in the clothes he stood summer—the mutable, rank-scented many, of Enoch Powell: ‘I don’t agree with him, up in, and now he was fleeing from as Will hath it. No wonder he left town. mind. But he says things that need say­ America. What he wanted was the back At a man’s back there are always the ing’. Now, however, it seems that Spiro country. We drove off main roads onto wings of the Angel of Disaster. Crashing is far from the mental defective that he minor roads, off minor roads onto country the car is difficult to pass off lightly—‘I appeared; has, indeed, been helping him­ lanes, off country lanes onto places where did that deliberately so that you can get self to a large slice of the American pie. there might once have been a packhorse to meet one of our splendid policemen They are mourning for their lost lamb track in Roman times. His hands shook face to face’. Getting lost involves a loss in Boise, Idaho, tonight. And the loud, continuously and my driving isn’t that of credibility—‘There’s St Paul’s Cathe­ assertive attitudes of Americans abroad bad. dral. Well, it was here yesterday. ’ You have disappeared. Now they are very Eventually they screw themselves up can spend hours driving round the anxious to do the right thing, the Europ­ to the inevitable. terraces of South London, streets of a ean thing. We have culture but no —‘Do you have a—uh —drug problem thousand twitching curtains, looking for money, and they have money but no here?’ the Brighton road. . . ‘This is a short cut, culture; so we come to an arrangement. —Oh, God no, no problem,’ I say reas­ not many people know about it’. Any­ One can tell the really weird ones suringly. ‘What can I get hold of for you? one who has an XJ6 suddenly cut across because they always want to visit Stone­ A little grass? A few downers, mandies, in front at Hyde Park Corner could slam henge. When we get there, we find four coke? I must say your lady wife looks as on the brakes, lean out of the window, hundred French schoolchildren climbing if she could use some speed’. and scream ‘Get o ff the fucking road you all over it eating ice-cream, which isn’t In the driving mirror I see two middle shit-faced capitalist maniac’, before quite the red, blood-sacrifice, prehistoric American faces trying to force a smile. remembering the existence of the couple dawn they had in mind. Instead they It’s a horrible sight. in the back. There must be parties dining unload their paranoia on the journey back. Americans are very keen on gaining out nightly in St Louis on the terrors of One man asked me anxiously if there and imparting information. There is no­ their London holiday, the savagery and wasn’t a new contem pt over here for thing I do not know about rubber tyres, greed of the natives. American money, which is sort of like roofing, or company law as related to the And sometimes one of them makes a spitting on the Queen Mother besides shoe industry. Occasionally they even remark so unwise that it paralyses them being the reverse of the truth. A lady was tell you something useful, like a Canadian for the rest of the day. Like the man a little worried about her husband: it who explained how he wrote his novels looking up at Edinburgh Castle: ‘That’s seemed he had discovered a cheap substi­ by shipping on a slow freighter, or the really a fine castle, but why did they tute for aluminium, and the aluminium Belgian journalist who conducted me have to build it over the railway station?’ corporations were naturally trying to gravely round the British Museum. Some­ His wife gives him the full oxy-acetylene, assassinate him. Another man was into times one encounters the American the ‘wait till I get you back in the hotel hip spiritualism (‘The night I got through couple of popular fiction: she, aloof, cool, bedroom’ glare. to Jesus Christ—wow, I really flashed’) menthol-cigarette-smoking; he, eager, I look up at the international sky. 11 Illustration by Rick Gallagher. Fiction/WCK FARREN

'Apart from Alice’s candle, the flashing neon advertising Dirty Edna’s was the only light in the room. Monk and Easy had been rapping for at least 36 hours with the only natural break coming when they sneaked out to the toilet to shoot up more crystal The kid in the cowboy hat was tracing the red weals on Belinda’s naked back with his fingers. I was trapped between the cow­ boy, the speed freaks and the wall going on and o ff.. . ’

The overhead shook the building as it ‘Good clinical meth man. The dude shuddered past outside. A drawing pin came round every day and gave him his dropped out of the poster of Albert Ein­ shot. Didn’t even know what was happen­ stein, and the top left hand corner slowly ing. Every time he felt bad, just sing out curled and dropped. Outside in the win­ for the doc. He travelled everywhere dow the red neon sign that advertised with him ’. Dirty Edna’s flashed on and off, making ‘Who?’ the far wall change alternately from ‘The doc, with Kennedy. Ain’t you bloody red to dirty grey. Apart from the listening, man?’ single candle that Alice was staring at, it ‘Sure I’m listening, man. Don’t get was the only source of light for the whole paranoid. You know what I mean?’ room. The stereo pumped out Merle ‘I’m not paranoid, man. I know what’s Haggard. The kid in the cowboy hat sat happening’. hunched over it. He posed something of a ‘What about Hitler?’ problem in that whenever anybody sug­ ‘He was a coke freak’. gested that it might be nice to hear some­ ‘So? What’s wrong with coke?’ thing other than country music he ‘I wouldn’t turn it down, if there was threatened to fight them. Nobody knew some, but there isn’t so I can’t’. exactly where he’d come from but no­ ‘Huh?’ body quite liked to ask him about it. ‘You sure you’re listening, man?’ I would have left right then, except I ‘Sure I’m sure’. couldn’t find the energy to move. I ‘So what was wrong with Hitler?’ pulled the little bottle of capsules out of ‘He had this doctor called Morrell.’ my boot. There were six left. They’d see ‘Used to shoot him full of coke and me through the rest of the night and belladonna’. probably most of the next day. I had a ‘Right’. vestigial idea that I ought to pass them ‘I mean, imagine being Kennedy, man. round but I didn’t see anyone else about Stoned out on meth, threatening to toss to come out with anything. I decided the bombs at the Russians’. best thing to do would be to keep them ‘I thought you were talking about to myself. It occurred to me that it H itler’. would be amusing if I stuffed a couple ‘Sure I was talking about Hitler. You down the kid in the cowboy hat. The want to listen, man. The trouble with trouble was that I didn’t really have the Hitler was that he fucked up’. co-ordination for that kind of adventure, ‘He was surrounded by junkies’. even though he’d probably be better off ‘Goering’. lying in a foetal position on the stairs ‘Goering had methadone invented for than lording it over the stereo. him when he couldn’t get any smack’. The only alternative to the country The kid in the cowboy hat had music was to tune in to Monk and Easy. started Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison for Their rap had been going on for at least the third time. I was trapped between him, thirty-six hours, with the only natural the speedfreaks and the wall going on and breaks coming when they sneaked out to off. I sideslipped and the room got jagged. the toilet to shoot up more crystal. They I wished I could turn off at least part of kept theirs to themselves, and I wasn’t it. The overhead went through again and about to negotiate an exchange for a the building shook. Alice’s candle couple of my capsules. It didn’t stop me flickered, but she didn’t notice. She just listening to them, though, when the went right on staring. pedal steel music got to be too much. The door opened and the speedfreaks They had a theory that speedfreaks jerked in unison. It was only Ice and ruled the world. Belinda. By the look of them they’d been ‘And then there was Kennedy’. up on the roof. Ice liked to take Belinda ‘Right, too right’. up there, tie her to one of the ventilator ‘He had this doctor’. pipes and beat her with his belt. If the ‘Sure, sure, came round every day. ritual was over, Ice would probably leave 0 1 . i. V- - . 11 n f n M / I 12 1 soon. Then Belinda would strip off and show us all her bruises. We’d seen it kid in the cowboy hat whether he want­ before, except the kid in the cowboy hat, ed to see her bruises. Before he could even that is. He’d probably get a kick out of answer, she’d started to unbutton her it. He looked the type. dress. I’d seen it so many times before \l Ice stuck his thumbs in his belt and I retreated behind my eyelids. If she kept v thrust his hips forward. The faggots on him busy for a long time somebody the third floor were always trying to get might be able to put on some different to Ice. He had that kind of fast-gun music. machismo down to a fine art. He’d seen When I opened my eyes again I could every one of Sergio Leone’s movies at see Belinda and the cowboy entwined least three times. He turned slowly, beside the stereo. Belinda appeared to be scanning the room, watchful and ready naked. The neon sign came on and con­ to jump. He lingered over the mirror that firmed it. The kid still had his hat on. He was propped against the wall between was tracing the red weals on her back Alice and the mattress. with his fingers. Ice always refused to have anything to ‘Why do you let him do it to you, do with the faggots from the third floor. honey?’ He made that very clear, despite the fact Belinda laughed her little squeaky that he hung round their landing a little laugh. too much. Ice had paused long enough. ‘I don’t mind. I quite enjoy it really’. It was his cue to speak. The neon went off and I waited for the ‘What’s happening, huh?’ next episode. When it came back on again, Nobody, answered. Ice’s voice was a the cowboy was licking his lips. fraction too high for the rest of his ‘Would you let me do it?’ image. Belinda was outraged. ‘I asked w hat’s happening’. ‘Listen buster, I don’t hardly know Easy looked up with a jerk. you’. ‘We were just talking about world The neon went off again. In the dark­ power. Amphetamine . ..’ ness I could hear the kid in the cowboy Easy rolled the word round his tongue. hat trying to placate her. ‘Right!’ ‘. .. amphetamine power. If you under­ ' ‘I’m sorry, sugar, I didn’t mean any Every so often, the red light would stand what I’m talking about.’ harm ’. catch their eyes. Demonic reflections Ice nodded. A fast tight nod that I’d Belinda forgave him and the neon came would be thrown back. I was beginning caught him rehearsing in the bathroom. on. The cowboy grinned at her. to drift into their spiralling world. I ‘I understand’. ‘Want to see my gun?’ caught myself wondering if it was me or He turned slowly to face the kid in the I thought for a moment he was going them that was insane. I looked away. cowboy hat. to expose his Roy Rogers prick. It turned There v/as nothing else to stare at but ‘Why all the country music?’ out that I was quite wrong. From the the wall. All that did was go on and off. The kid in the cowboy hat rose to a waistband of his jeans, he produced a Red Grey Red Grey Red Grey tense half crouch. mean black snubnosed revolver. The red In the next red flash the door opened ‘What’s wrong with country music, light went off, and I imagined how the quietly and a guy I’d never seen before friend?’ gun must have been nestling behind his slipped in carrying a bottle. He looked There was a long silence while they rodeo buckle all evening. It was fortu­ around for someone to talk to. Easy and tried to stare each other down. The wall nate that nobody had pressed the point Monk were locked into their plans for flashed from grey and back to red. It was about the country music. I eased myself world domination, Alice was still trans­ Ice who finally gave way. back into the wall. It always makes me fixed, while Belinda and the cowboy ‘Nothing wrong with country music- nervous when kiddies start to play with were pressing together on the floor. That in the country’. guns. left only me. He sat down. Before the drama could go any further, I couldn’t look at the kid in the cow­ ‘You seen Zorbo?’ Belinda put her hand on Ice’s sleeve. boy hat. I just didn’t want to know what Who the hell was Zorbo? ‘Do you have a cigarette?’ he was doing with the gun. I switched I looked him straight in the bottle and Ice pushed her away. my attention to Alice. She was still grinned. ‘I’m clean o u t’. staring at the candle, and there was no ‘Sure, he left already’. ‘You sure?’ entertainment there. Even in the muted The red to grey and back to red pause. He turned angrily on her. light there was nothing attractive about I continued to smile at the bottle. I ‘Sure I’m sure. All you ever do is want her plain, vacant little face. That left licked my lips and felt a bit like the kid things’. only Easy and Monk. They still squatted in the cowboy hat. I wished I had a gun It was another of their games. We cross-legged like a pair of jittering to show the dude. After a while, he got could all see the almost full pack of Buddhist monks. They’d transferred the point. Camels sticking out of his shirt pocket. from previous world-wreckers to then- ‘Uh . . . maybe you’d like a drink’. He turned his heel and slammed out of own dreams of power and grandeur. I grabbed it. the room. Even above Johnny Cash we ‘All we got to do is get it together. ‘Sure would’. could hear this boots going down the T hat’s all we got to do’. I took a generous swallow. It was stairs. The kid in the cowboy hat climbed ‘Right. We’ve only got to get it cheap wine which tasted like it had been to his feet and went over to Belinda. He together’. fortified with anti-freeze. I paused, took pulled out a crumpled pack of Luckies. ‘We could be right there. Running another hit and passed it back to him. ‘Do you want one of these, honey?’ things, doing it. Telling people what to ‘Thanks’. Belinda showed her nice even teeth in do. You know what I mean?’ There was a pause while the guy wait­ a Marilyn Monroe smile. They waved their hands at each other; ed for me to offer him something in ‘Thank you very much’. fast jerks that cast shadows like darting return. I decided not to be drawn and sat The cowboy lit her cigarette for her. bats or black birds each time the neon staring straight ahead, doing a passable In the flash, I was reminded that Belinda flashed through the windows. imitation of Alice. The overhead came was in fact quite pretty. She made a ‘All we need to do is jusl get started. through again and shook the building. living for herself and Ice by making fuck Once we get started, got a few people The guy jerked. films. She lost quite a lot of work, though, behind as, we could sweep across the ‘What the luck was that?' because he left too many marks on her. world’. ‘Overhead’. I suppose you could say something about ‘A whole legion of us. Wave upon ‘Aah’. all work and no play. The overhead came wave, driving everything in front of us’. ‘A nytim e’. through again and the building shuddered. ‘Right!’ •' . iid •'! 14 Belinda wasted no time in asking fhe M usi get il b tael her'. i i i ■. V‘. . i l i i l a y lie Alice continued to stare unwaveringly ‘T hat’s the word, wonderful. We got at the candle. A little pool of wax was the answer’. beginning to form on the floor. The ‘You want to hear the answer?’ sailor leaned over and squeezed her I shrugged. breasts. ‘Sure, why not?’ ‘Believe in free love, do you babe? I ‘People’. believe in free love’. ‘People?’ Alice’s gaze didn’t waver. Miss Rene ‘Right, people’. looked on in disgust. The sailor began to ‘Yeah, people. We live off people’. slobber over the front of Alice’s Donald I focussed on them. The red light was Duck T-shirt. Rene flounced towards reflected in their eyes. They looked like the door. a couple of vampires who’d just spied ‘Well fuck you Jack!’ lunch. I took the time to argue. The door slammed behind her and her ‘I thought we did that anyway’. high heels clattered down the stairs. The ‘We go the whole way’. sailor began to realise that maybe he ‘No half measures’. wasn’t going to get as far as he’d imagin­ ‘We catch people’. ed. Alice might look completely relaxed, I was confused. but we all knew that when she got into ‘What do we do when we’ve caught that state she became as stiff as a board. them ?’ He tried to push his hand down her They looked at me like I was a back­ jeans, but found that the way she was ward child. I was at a disadvantage. sitting made it quite impossible. He They’d had thirty-six hours to build up attempted to ease one of her legs out of to this. Easy spelled it out. the way, gently at first and then using ‘We process them ’. both hands. He discovered that even ‘Hunh?’ when he applied leverage, Alice’s thighs ‘Some bits we eat. Some bits we get just wouldn’t move. He rolled over on stoned on ...’ the mattress and shook his head at her ‘What?’ ‘There’s all these glands’. have a taste of something you could lay hunched, bony back. on me. I mean, do you?’ ‘You ought to see a doctor, honey’. Monk picked it up. For one charitable instant I thought She ignored him. He raised his voice ‘The adrenal gland, the lymph gland, about giving him one of my precious to take in the whole room. the pineal gland, the pituitary. You got to capsules, then I shook my head. ‘This chick ought to see a doctor’. be able to get high on some of those. “It all w ent’. The whole room ignored him. He Plus we eat the flesh and make ornaments ‘Too bad’. complained and muttered for a while, and out of the bones. We could even sell them. then began to get interested in Monk and ‘Sorry’. There’s no time to delay’. His wine hadn’t been that good, and Easy. He listened for a while and then I sat and boggled as they raced out of besides I’d had it. After a decent pause finely interrupted their flow. the room yelling. The sailor seemed dis­ he got up and slipped out of the door as ‘You fella’s planning something?’ appointed that they hadn’t asked him to quietly as he had come in. Or, at least, Their heads flashed round, and they go with them. There was nothing to do peered at him with speed-freak hostility. he tried to. On the way he was hit by but wait. The overhead came through and Miss Rene w ith a sailor in tow, and was ‘We’re taking over’. shook the buildings. Inside of fifteen almost knocked off his feet. Rene flashed ‘Taking over what?’ minutes, they were back again. ‘The world, man. The whole fucking him a super nova smile. ‘We need help’. ‘Sorry precious, I hardly saw you’. planet’. I shook my head. The little guy fled down the stairs and ‘Yeah?’ ‘I can’t move’. Miss Rene swept into the room. ‘Yeah, all we got to do is get it to­ The sailor jumped to his feet and even ‘Nothing going on in here. You almost gether.’ the cowboy seemed anxious to help. ‘Taking over the world seems like a look like you need dusting’. They all trooped downstairs. A few Rene was a strange creature. She had pretty tall order’. minutes later they were back, struggling the face and figure of a starlet, but Monk dismissed the sailor’s plebian with a limp body. They dropped it on attached to her crotch was a miniaturised viewpoint with a fast chop of his hand. the floor. Belinda squeaked. Alice didn’t set of male genitals. Nobody was quite ‘No problem, once we got it together’. move. I looked at it. It wasn’t the best sure how she got that way. The opposing Easy nodded. body I’d ever seen. Middle aged, unshaven, theories were that, on one hand, she was ‘We’d tell you about it only we don’t dirty, wearing a tattered Army coat, jt a freak of nature, while on the other she have time right now’. looked like one of the bums they regular­ had once had a very expensive hormone The sailor grinned with a dawning, ly tossed out of Dirty Edna’s. Easy and job, but had run out of money before she doglike devotion. Monk stood over it triumphantly. I could get the final piece of surgery. ‘Go ahead. You don’t mind if I listen, think they would have liked to have their She was wearing a blue metallic sheath do you?’ photos taken. Foot on neck, like big dress that flashed purple each time the ‘Not if you don’t interrupt’. game hunters. We’d hocked Alice’s red neon came on. I started to hallucinate ‘I w on’t say a w ord’. Polaroid a long time earlier though, and it watching her. Over her shoulders was a It seemed as though Easy and Monk just wasn’t possible. black leather Brando bike jacket, one had claimed their first disciple. They went Easy looked round the room. of the double breasted kinds with lots of back to plotting. The sailor sat on the ‘What we need is a knife’. zips. Miss Rene had a strange talent for mattress watching them, absorbing every The sailor, who seemed so taken with mixing her symbolism. word, his head turning from side to side the game that he’d totally forgotten The sailor started to paw at her. He like a spectator at a tennis match. about Alice, pulled a large switchblade was very drunk. She shrieked, and punch­ Across the room there was a flurry of from out of his coat. He opened it with a ed him in the face with a fistful of rings. movement. The kid in the cowboy hat snap. I shut my eyes as they went to ‘Don’t touch the merchandise, had taken time out from rubbing his work. I couldn’t take any more. I could Charlie!’ pistol between Belinda’s legs for long picture the scene when the cops burst in. He reeled away, and then stumbled enough to put on a Tammy Wynette Then I thought about it. Who’d miss an round the room as though he was unsure album. It seemed like a signal to Monk old bum, it might be okay after all. of what had happened to him. A small and Easy. They both leaped to their feet. Provided they didn’t go crazy. And who trickle of blood ran down his chin from a ‘We got it!’ could tell, there might be some good cut on his lips. His vacant eyes fell on ‘Yeah! We got the answer’. stuff in those glands. Alice. He sat down heavily beside her. I rested my head against the wall. The overhead came through and shook ‘Hey honey, you look cute’. ‘That’s w onderful’. the building. (m w m : Afio l a

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Naturallydifficult thisarticle has beento write.a very I went to Amsterdamday, but mostlyalso somethingperhaps for a toholi­ other geting, involved thanwhich in formagazines yearsmuch orhas ofwrit­ occupied my time farin tooLondon. I had in Toad Hall, I needed something simple to /JIM ANDERSON Cabaret behind theFucking Puppets o f Vienna. 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I can liberating for me-broadening both mind of yet anotherhead of by the teachers ideas planted and family in my became clear. to the winds andlarger resignedtrousers. myself Of course, to the only thing penetration, bation.fellatio andA few mutualweeks in mastur­downtown Cairo, London, but at the same time I didn’t however, broughtity homeof this to attitude. me the absurd­I threw my virginity want to have hita big bum,the road, so when I restricted I did myself to active and sexual well-being I had to get out of the arse would make it expand like a was finding England oppressive to me as a ripening cauliflower. For my emotional gay person, I assumedring to thatmy oldhe wasfear refer­ that getting fucked in saying. I’m sure nowthe thatwear and he hadducedtear in on bymind your camel the backsidesaddles wooden inpro­ the seats tainSahara in joltingbuses, or but Greek in moun­the mid-sixties, when I 'Travel narrows the mind and broadens the arse’, George listGreaves, friend an ofold minejourna­ in Tangier was fond of Illustration by William Rankin. whatever, she would do a belly dance she beseiged by reporters, photographers and the church aisles in order to bring back *' had learned in Tunisia to warm them up. groupies. Life at the top becomes lonely, the congregations, but 1 thought that Nothing was ever happening in the park drugs replace her love life and she spurns the Milky Way would work much better, and it»was easy to trap a large crowd, a last minute rescue attempt by Jiml who be less dull, if facilities for fucking were mostly, teenybop freaks and park hippies, arrives in Los A ngeles to bring her back added to it, 1 imagined a couple of warm but a selection of Dutch matrons and home. She dies in a spectacular blue-lit steaming pools like natural thermal German tourists with their children as scene on a motel bed, a bottle o f South­ springs, fountains in the vapour, music, well. The police checked up on us as we ern Comfort in one hand, a hypodermic soft lights and nakedness, colour telly and were setting up the first time. We had no in the other. The Cosmic Guru reappears dope, some tropical foliage and open to licence, but on being told that it was to intone a euolgy, placing the blame for the sky on hot summer nights. A hippie ‘puppets, you know, for kids’, they gave her death squarely on the nuclear family love temple with a Robert Crumb fuck- big smiles and went away. and the mores Of a puritanical sexually in and orgy-riot whenever communal Adam’s main targets were the perni­ repressed redneck society. And the passion escaped from its box. cious teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. (Adam always had it in for the The Vienna Sex Puppets evening at Church and the Jesuits, the evils of sexual church). the Milky Way turned into a Joplin rock repression and censorship, and the hypo­ So much for accuracy in the rapacious memorial service. Bill Levy from Suck crisy of the Victorians and their succe­ path of creative endeavour. We did a Magazine (like Oz, a final issue will be ssors. He extolled the delights of fucking trial run in the Vondelpark and on the out by the end of the year) lent us two and shitting and made mock of prudish strength of that got a booking for the cartoons which could have come out of Anglo-Saxon attitudes in these more Milky Way a couple of nights later. \ was Unca Walt’s personal collection and than potentially enjoyable areas. My in show-business. were originally shown at the Wet Dream first contribution to his theatre was back I was dimly aware that Janis Joplin’s Festival. Janis herself had doubtful stage, making farting and evacuation sex life was more than fucking producers drawing power (she was as remote as noises, as Adam manipulated his puppet- and drunkenly dragging guys off the Bessie Smith to a good half of the crowd), priest on the toilet seat, while bellowing street into her car at the lights. Her but from the minute that Hansel and out a long monologue on the pleasures of sweetheart was a girl rather than a boy, Gretel flickered on the waLt, billed as a a good crap. It was excellent therapy for and it would have been no trouble to be Janis Joplin masturbation fantasy, a me too, who has suffered embarrass­ correct for once and included some sexual whisper floated around the club ment at having to shit, hung over a rail, tender lesbian love scenes. But I was and the room was completely filled. in public at pop festivals. This parti­ vaguely embarrassed (embarrassment, Piece of My Heart was blasted out over cular sketch was always very popular, the curse of the middle classes) by my the loudspeakers, then a spotlight played arousing great guffaws and the occasional own gayness, as indeed I had been the on Kathy as she did her belly dance, participatory fart, from any audience. previous day when 1 had chickened out of announcing it this time as Janis Joplin’s There was usually interest too in the new doing a gay liberation sketch I had pre­ Dream of Paradise. By the time the use being made of an old amusement pared. 1 was overcome by shyness, not puppet drama itself got going, it was device, even if they were too doped to simple Bambi stuff, but self-oppressive almost lost in the sideshows and preten­ be conscious of any sexual problems timidity. Had that heavy duty done with sions of a mammoth production, themselves except perhaps that of im- GLF at the London School of Economics Kathy made Janis into a real tough potency. and All Saints Hall been all to no avail? cookie of a puppet, and 1, feverishly Adam had grown tired of the limita­ Would [ no longer be able to ask for Gay working away as her mother, father and tions of his repertoire and was anxious N ew s at my local newsagent? Was it time boyfriend, felt she came over as a pushy to upgrade his material. After a discuss­ for electro-shock treatment as my only bitch who deserved everything she got. Me ion we came up with a sketch entitled solution? I decided rather hastily that it and Bobby McGee, played at the end as The Death of Janis Joplin, the Rise and was just natural nervousness at perform­ an accompaniment to the second of the Fall of a Superstar. Unfortunately, much ing in public, even in such a friendly cartoons, Snow White and the Seven as we liked Janis, neither of us knew medium as a puppet theatre, and not Dwarfs which was billed as Janis Joplin’s much about her history, and having no something as anti-revolutionary as a lack Vision of Life After Death, restored a time to make new puppets, we had to of gay conviction. As Adam had pointed sense of sorrow however, and there was weave the story around those we had. out patiently, I was a very hot and some enthusiastic clapping. Even as Prince Her tragedy, as performed the next day, bothered performer. My co-ordination Charming was fucking Snow White back went something like this: was bad and I would get excited and find to life, joints were being Lit, chillums Janis Joplin (related the Cosmic Guru)) myself unable to do more than one thing were being prepared, and Janis Joplin was bom in a small Texas tow n and dis­ at a time. Life ran along far too quickly was drifting back into oblivion. played a rebellious tomboy disposition in the puppet world for my fat fingers, So much for showbiz, 1 left Amster­ even from the cradle. She loved singing which had to work frantically to keep dam shortly afterwards. The Vienna Sex and when she war fourteen started run­ pace with changes of props and chara­ Puppets got other bookings, Adam got ning around with a bunch of local music­ cters. Voices to switch to falsetto, tapes another helper, and began work on an ians, one o f whom became her childhood to play, glitter to be thrown for the even more ambitious project-The His­ sweetheart-Jimi Hendrix (so we could Monterey Festival scene, cobks to squirt, tory of Acid, the Life and Times of use the black puppet). In the opening cunts to flash, and I tended not to realise Timothy Leary-based on his experiences scene, her mother (Mrs Whitehouse) that I was compulsively making puppets with Leary in Vienna during the six catches Janis in the bath singing the come and switching ilght bulbs on and weeks the acid gangster spent there be­ Kozmic Blues (we had it on tape) and off long after the story had moved else­ fore he inadvisedly left for Afghanistan whacking off. Mum gives her a rundown where. and instant arrest. on the evils o f masturbation, then sends The Milky Way is a club in an old When Adam comes to London and her in to her father for a beating. Drunken warehouse on a canal just off the Leidse- does his version of The Oz Trial, i will dad takes o f his trouser belt, beats her, pian with a large, comfortable area for have further opportunity to exorcise then fucks her. She runs to the priest for watching movies or video, another for some of my sexual devils. When that help. He listens lasciviously to her eating, another for tea and conversation, other Mr Leary, the prosecutor at the troubles, then fucks her. She runs to her and a main room for loitering or lolling trial, asks: ‘Do you find the male organ childhood sweetheart, who consoles her, about, listening to music, dancing if attractive, Mr Anderson?’ I will be able then fucks her. (Lots o f play here with anyone can be bothered, watching others to reply, ‘I think it’s very beautiful, Mr the rubber tubing and the electric light do their number and being passively Leary, don’t you?’ instead of the tor­ bulbs). He says: 'Marry me and join the entertained by events like the Cosmic tuous answer 1 did give, which was ‘1 bandShe says: 'You’re just a no-good Nomads. 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was ‘the party of the centre’, that they polled 4,789 votes at the West Bromwich split from them in 1958 to set up the want a united European Army and by-election in May. National Labour Party with John Beam, hoped Britain would join with Europe While the Action Party have to con­ another leading Front member, and and the white Commonwealth to create tent themselves with trying to persuade appeared in a charming Daily Herald a third major power, the other two being local libraries to take their newspaper photo in 1962, carrying a swastika America and Russia. China, nowhere. and asking for funds, the NF have been banner at a National Socialist camp in Action also has a novel interpretation fighting elections and are to put up at the Cotswolds. of the recent killings of African mine- least 50 candidates at the next General I attended their conference at the workers in South Africa: the police were Election; which would seem to be about Conway Hall in October and watched actually defending other African workers. the best reason for making it to the Tyndall on the Union Jack-bedecked But in view of their debts and the fact polling booths since 1945. At the mo­ platform delivering a call to arms based that hardly anyone seems to have heard ment the effect of their electioneering on ‘the spirit and the genius of this of them, Action does seem to be some­ is to cut the Tory vote, but the size of race, living on proud and defiant’. The thing of a Mickey Mouse in boots some of the tum-outs-businessman word ‘race’ had a positively Pavlovian operation, Mosley’s party almost over John Clifton picked up 3,000 votes at effect on the delegates, producing with all its pretty balloons burst. Uxbridge earlier this year-shows that immediate cries o f‘Yes, yes’ and much The same can’t be said of the National they have the organisation to make in­ hand-clapping. I hate to fall back on such Front, recently in the news when one of roads into local councils, where they a tired comparison as wee Adolf, but their new members, Roy Painter, was could do a considerable amount of really Tyndall’s strutting hyperbole removed from the Board of Governors damage. They, too, do a lot of leafletting, ‘soon we shall hear the sounds of march­ of Somerset Comprehensive School in most recently in Harringey, Brixton, ing columns ... the skyline will be red Tottenham. This was welcomed by the Hounslow and Brentford where small white and blue ... we have the greatest NF activities organiser, the obese Martin stickers distributed from their Croydon fighters in the country’—was so much Webster, because ‘it will tend to polarise headquarters claim ‘National Front puts of a crib of Hitler that I’m surprised things and where things polarise, we do Britain first-Stop Immigration, Start he doesn’t come out of his bunker and better’. Repatriation? sue for breach of copyright. But perhaps Mr Webster should know. Since he John Tyndall, the man who now the saddest aspect of the conference was attended the National Socialists’ rally leads the Front, is a former member of watching the police and the NF heavies in Trafalgar Square in 1962 he has be­ the League of Empire Loyalists which swapping anecdotes about how they come a leading Front figure in polarisa­ was formed in 1954 by A K Chesterton, dealt with lefty demonstrators. I’d like tion of opinion on the racial issues, and second cousin to the author G K. Tyndall to send a free holiday on the Black Sea to the gallant photographer who quietly whistled the Internationale throughout Tyndall’s closing remarks. The Front have taken away much of the muscle from the Monday Club which, at its peak in 1971, could claim 34 Tory MPs and 35 Peers in its ranks. Now it is suffering an ideological heamorrage, gleefully catalogued by the press, be­ cause of the refusal of chairman Jonathon Guinness-Tt’s what your right wing’s for’-to resign. Guinness and his supporters are considered soft and the expulsion of the Essex branch of the club for the election support they gave a local Front candidate caused further rifts in the Club. Guinness has duly paid the penalty for being a softy by being dropped by his constituency in Lincoln as their candidate in the next election. By their increasingly obtuse behaviour, the Monday Club members have become an embarrassment to many of their parliamentary colleagues and only a handful of Tory MPs remain with them, although those with strong ties include our old friend Geoff Rippon, Julian Amery and former Minister of Transport, John Peyton. But one of the former members, George Young, who lost the chairmanship battle with Guinness on April 30th, has used the Club as a spring­ board to further activity in Brent where he hopes to stand in the next election and use the immigration issue as a focus for his campaign. Young, an ex-MI6 man, is in part ironically responsible for Kim Philby’s diplomatic rise. The other groups and parties, while fiercely claiming deep ideological and practical differences, seem to offer pretty much the same kick-out-the-darkies- hang-muggers-jail-IRA-fight-comprehen- sive-schools-recognise-Rhodesia-kiss- Vorster’s-ass formula. National Demo­ cratic chairman David Brown, who is standing for Ipswich, is in favour of forced repatriation. Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett, the head of the Nation­ al Independent Party, is an admirer of the pragmatic policies of South Africa and Rhodesia. But what about the Tory party, with whom many of these groups have a strange love-hate relationship? In general, it’s criticised for being too gentle with immigrants and criminals, economi­ cally spineless and too ready to abandon the British role in the world. At the Tory conference in Blackpool, Councillor Peter Wood of Sunderland put the mo­ tion calling for stricter control of immigrants and although Carr didn’t exactly give in totally to what he said, he was pretty flaccid in his objections to it. We even had Willie Deedes, chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Race Relations, telling us that identity cards might well become a reality and no-one could really accuse the Tories of being ‘soft on race’ with a piece of legis­ lation like the 1971 Immigration Act behind them. So the Tories find themselves faced with the dilemma of whether or not to go the whole anti-immigrant hog- deporting at will, humiliating immigrants at airports and giving the gentle nod to their more vociferous right wing. As Mr Deedes so significantly put it, ‘public instinct is not always wrong in these matters’. Even in the castrated language of politicians, it is clear what he means. But if groups and parties provide the more flamboyant signs of fascism, it is the less obvious expressions that deserve more attention. The army, for instance, is currently engaged in fighting British citizens, a significance that seems to have escaped a lot of people in this country. And since our army is still one of the most costly and largest in Europe and has nowhere like Cyprus, Aden and Malaya to play in any more, we must assume that they are going to become more deeply involved in fighting in Britain itself. It is certainly a situation that Brigadier Frank Kitson, who made his name fight­ needed if they were confined to using soldiers to try and solve. Kitson even has ing the Mau Mau in Kenya and the Irish batons and gas, as would be required a complex guerilla game, diagrams in­ in Ireland, seems to almost welcome in if they were allowed to use small arms’. cluded, in his book. It is this notion his book, ‘Low Intensity O peration’. He Kitson was involved in Kenya in the that people are toys to be moved from anticipates a situation in the late seven­ fifties when we used to read about one part of the board to another that is ties when the army role in fighting terrible atrocities committed against the one of the most intriguing. The British subversion will be m uch greater. By genial white settlers. In fact only 36 Army, as we know, are ‘professionals’. subversion, he means ‘strikes, protest white people died, while 11,500 Africans They have joined to fight and, if marches and propaganda ... the use of were killed. And Kitson is the man who necessary, kill, but above all to obey small-scale violence’. He envisages the wants more political power for the army orders. One of the reasons that the US army ‘advising the government’ and and a special ‘psychological unit’ formed. Army in Vietnam was such a disaster getting involved in the actual running of Nor is he alone in his interest in Britain’s was the presence in the ranks of large the country, setting up highly efficient military future; Sir Robert Thompson numbers of unwilling, subversive and intelligence units. As regards that boring brought out ‘Defeating Communist frag-happy draftees. The British Army old impediment, the Law, Kitson sees one Insurgency’ in 1967 and Faber advertises has few such dissidents and consequently alternative use for it as ‘just another writers like Julian Paget and his ‘Counter- poses that much more of a threat to a weapon in the arsenal of the government Insurgency Campaigns’, generously re­ civilian population, with whom it has . .. little more than a propaganda method viewed by the Daily Telegraph. little contact. for the disposal of unwanted members of The former Major General Richard There’s no thrill of satisfaction in the public’. Although not totally con­ Clutterbuck is another militarist who bringing the police into an article on vinced, at least in print, of using the law specialises in reserach into counter­ fascism. If you’ve dealt with or been like this, Kitson foresees that using the insurgency. He is currently being financed, dealt with by the police in Spain or law legally might ‘prove unworkable if it to the tune of nearly £6,000, by a Social America or Taiwan or Greece or wherever, were found to be politically impossible Sciences Research Council grant to inves­ you can at least put our police in some to get sufficiently severe emergency tigate ‘violence in British politics’ with a perspective. But it would be wrong to regulations on the statute book’. He particular emphasis on violence in ignore the potential that the police have adds that ‘it is ... true to say that un­ pickets. to control us, a potential that is already necessary delay in committing the army Soldiers have always been fascinated being put to use. may result in far worse complications by games. The latest army ad campaign, Take the recent raids on ‘bomb later on’. And he points out that ‘three which runs to full pages in the dailies, suspects’ for instance. Police smashed or four times as many troops might be poses an elaborate problem for potential their way into houses about as likely to ~ S S # r

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Yes folks, those zany lads are back again with the kind of humour that can destroy your whole neighbourhood. Pick it up next Saturday while you're purchasing your weekend surgical requisites. Continued from page 23. development with the petit bourgeoisie. I And amongst the religions that have at contain a bomb factory as the Lord's All such phenomena could be said to I least one of those facets must be the Day Observance Society. Why? To garner exist here at the moment. The fact that Church of the Divine Light, the Children addresses, to harrass, to see who was where. the NF axe still small at the polls is not of God, Scientology and the Festival of Robert Carr has said they can be as 'tough particularly significant. The Nazis got Lighters. Before they all rush round to as they need’ in their search for the bomb­ nowhere near a majority in the Reich­ consume me in holy fire, 1 should make ers; if using a sledge-hammer to bash your stag elections of 1932. it clear that I am n o t saying that all mem­ way into a Charrington Street home isn’t In America, security firms like Brinks, bers of these religions are fascists or fascistic, then I’m Eva Braun. Burns and Waggenhuit have pioneered anything like that; what I am saying is Our police, people say, are not armed. the way to such an extent that armed that there are elements in each religion Not quite true, of course, since the security men now patrol even places like that could easily be exploited in an anti­ Special Patrol Group quietly disposed Tower Records, the massive San Fran­ left fashion. And we all know that there of Basharet Hussain and Mohamad cisco music shop. Would you think.the is no army more dedicated than one Hanif Hussein in the Aldwych last new Dylan album was worth dying for? that knows it is going to heaven. March. The SPG has been in existence At the moment in Britain wild dogs, There are other comparisons that can for eight years now and have increased otherwise known as alsatians, are used be made; Hitler's time in jail could be their size to more than 200 highly-trained to harrass people and protect property. paralleled with the sentences handed out men who cost about Lima year to keep Of course, occasionally, they do get out at the end of the last war to the ultra­ in Hillman Hunters, transit vans-and of hand and when they bite off the top of right here-in fact, they regard themselves guns. Nor are such forces confined to a baby’s head there’s a national outcry. as martyrs already; disillusioned soldiers London. Glasgow, Bristol, Lincolnshire, Squatters don’t usually get that sort of like the German General Kapp, were at Northumberland and many other areas sympathetic coverage in the tabloids. the forefront of Nazism-they were dis­ have their own ‘Support Groups’ or Not all para-military groups are official gruntled with their country’s new military ‘Serious Incident Squads’. or salaried; although St Ives Council role, too; the ‘foreign’ community was America has already shown the way in called on a security firm called K9 from blamed for many of Germany’s economic sophisticated riot control and their Weston-super-Mare to deal with local problems in the same way that Powell methods have been studied in detail in hippies this summer, they had been and his fellow psychotics blame the this country. And how many more little preceded by local amateur vigilantes. blacks in Britain; there was among the backroom organisations like Allen Inter­ The Easy Rider, Smash-the-Hippies Germans the same distrust of internation­ national in Pye Street are developing scene no longer seems just a part of .the al committees-in their case the League ‘photic flashes’ and surveillance devices? American nightmare. And in Brent, of Nations-as the ultra-rightists have of But the police, as we know, are under­ the United Nations; similar techniques manned and have to call for assistance are used-as Powell falsifies his figures from private security firms, who are on immigration and makes up stories of already flexing their muscles on squatters immigrant behaviour, so, too, did the and demonstrators. Securicor, despite Nazis: the illustrations in 'Mein Kampf’ its absurd slogan ‘Securicor Cares’ and even went to the extent of touching up .the bizarre advertisements of appeasement Jewish noses to make them look longer. signed by its chairman, Sir Keith Erskine, Britain has, admittedly, a long history performs a police function at the airport of parliamentary democracy not shared in holding immigrants, usually black, for by Germany and it does have a tradition periods of time unrestricted by any normal of doing things through committee and considerations of law. There are now petition. It is this respect for history that more than 100,000 men employed in keeps the latent fascists at bay. But if ‘security’ in the United Kingdom, in an emergency arose, an assassination, firms like Securicor, Security Express, more bombings, how long would the Group Four Total Security and A1 ‘normal channels’ be allowed to flow? Security. Police estimate that about 1,000 Bob Campbell’s series on the ultra-right in of these are ex-convicts. the Morning Star last March took a far- Psychiatrists, like academics, can get ranging look at just how much a threat away with murder because of the initials the ultra-right really is. after their names. And the Mental Health For the ultra-right groups are just the Act of 1959, particularly sections 24 and tip of the jackboot, and most of them are 40, gives sweeping powers of committ­ too shrill to pose an immediate general ment to them. Already politically involv­ George Young the ex-Monday Clubber, threat. Of course, they have to be ed activists are being given long jail sen­ has been involved in a strange anti­ ridiculed and pursued and exposed, but tences for drug offences. How long before mugging squad. it is perhaps the latent fascism, the some of those lefty crazies need to be ' Again those are overt examples of what hidden element, that is more dangerous: committed for their own good? the right-wing can do with the often the private armies accountable only to a But is Britain really ripe for a blossom­ silent agreement of the press and the tiny number of people; the new legis­ ing, if that is the right word, of fascism? locals. But fascism is many-headed. The lation that denies you the right to know How much of our paranoia is well- Upsurge of religions in the sixties has what prospective jurors’ professions are; grounded fear? The obvious parallel provided an ideal organisational structure a press so irresponsible that it can say situation was Germany between the wars. that can divert young, malleable minds ‘Police name the IRA bombers’ and | They, too, were in the midst of econom­ into actions that are both anti-left and then publish names and addresses and ic crises-inflation in 1923 and the insidious. to hell with a trial; a media network monetary crisis of 1926; they, too, had God knows—and He seems like the that blames the IRA for any unsolved just suffered a heavy blow to their best authority on this one-that I’m not ‘atrocities’; a police computerisation of national pride, the loss of the war, and launching into an attack on people who suspected but untried drug-users; the Britain has just suffered the loss of her happen to feel that the way to peace is attachment of wages of rent-strikers empire; their movement, too, was based via meditation and spiritual activity, when they refuse to pay; the bus con­ among the petit bourgeois with a grudge but the new religions have a number of ductor who tells a Pakistani woman he’s against both organised labour and big characteristics that make them both full up when he’s not; the Lord who tells business. suspect and potentially exploitable. the House that parents of muggers ought Writing in 1930, Trotsky asked what Amongst those characteristics I’d include to be flogged; riot control methods were the current political phenomena their somewhat unspiritual interest in developed in secret. These are the areas in Germany and found four particular money, their often vitriolic attacks on that constitute the jackboot mentality, ones: deep national crisis; political communism and even the welfare state, coated as they are in the soft suede of crisis of the ruling class; internal contra­ and a certain amount of strong-arming law and order. dictions in the working-class; political of any individuals who oppose them. Jackboot Boys Rule-OK? Or not OK?

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A t the present, certain groups which ed well, this little black suburb on the ‘vicious campaign’ is only the latest of at should know better are undertaking a outskirts of the big white city, with its least three public outcries against South­ vicious and cunning campaign to under criss-cross society of mums and cousins all Police this year alone. There have mine the police force in Southall' Mr and sisters and brothers. Not any more. been other incidents, but with life the Walter Giibey, prospective Conservative Whatever it was like back in the sixties, way it is in Southall at present, not many candidate for Ealing-Southall, addressir Southall now is certainly no promised people are willing to discuss the activities the Ealing branch of the Tory Primrose land for the immigrants from the East. of the local constabulary. Open your League. October 1973. Just try asking around about the local mouth too wide out here and you sudden­ police and see how many people sudden­ ly find you’ve bitten off your head. ly remember other appointments. If you The first hints of the trouble to hit You know you’re getting close to South­ do find someone w ho’s willing to give Southall this year came in Januaiy, all when you start passing pie shops with you a few words out the corner of their following an armed robbery in Division signs out front reading ‘English Take- mouth, you’ll find you’re discussing some­ X. Three people-all white-were arrested Away Food’. Southall, the city’s number thing far removed from the corner in raids carried out by the police, and one ethnic ghetto, Little India, a town Bobby, something more along the lines of three separate allegations of police mis­ with about as much rn common with the the rise of Beria or early SS horror stories. conduct soon surfaced. rest of London living as free dope and ‘You can’t talk freely about immigrants One of those brought in claimed he honest coppers. Cross that open stretch here,’ one social worker with years of had been encouraged to sign a confession of cold, flat land out along bus route 207 experience in Southall told me when we by punches to the stomach and that he and it’s like crossing the border to an­ met in a coffee shop-at her insistence- had been locked overnight in a brightly other country, another continent, where on the other side of London. ‘It’s just not lit cell with no food, water or bedding. the comer sweet shops stock sticky safe. All my phones are tapped and I am Another testified that his nose had been saffron rice balls fresh from Bengal and sure they have files on everyone working broken by a police knee, an injury which the newsagents sell Diwali cards at Christ­ with immigrants. I certainly never talk was later conformed by a doctor. ‘I was mas. The bus fills up with people at each to anyone on the phone now and that’s a bit sceptical about the first allegation’, stop. They’re all brown, black, and they’re about the first symptom of a police state, said the defendants’ solicitor James speaking strange languages. The Pakistani isn’t it?’ Saunders, ‘but I didn’t have much doubt conductor stops groaning over changing about the second one’. The police, on the pound notes and smiles more often. other hand, decided that nothing had Home territory. Out here it’s also Little happened to warrant any investigation. Islam. On the streets it’s all business and The third person to make a charge pleasure. Aloof housewives from middle over that night’s police action was a Asia floating around the open fruit stands frican Judge sentt woman, a relative of the men who were spilling across the pavement. Old men in inree year s gaol tc eventually convicted of the robbery. She turbans greeting each other across the had been sleeping in a house in Shep­ jammed traffic, exchanging endless ritual herd’s Bush with several children and two family blessings. The skinny young studs other women, when she was awakened by in their three-piece pegged suits parading Southall Police Station stands almost the sound of the front window being for the girls who stand giggling in a line dead in the middle of Little India. An smashed. One of the women opened the outside the Dominion Cinema waiting for old, classically bleak, red brick nick front door and something hit her out of the next tear-jerker from the Bombay which for years has been a beacon of the dark. When she got up off the floor dream factory to flicker across the old gloom in a suburb radiating vitality, it is she found the room full of plain clothes screen. It’s a friendly town, Southall, a a white nigger in a black woodpile, as police, who moved on into the bedroom town for friends where the citizens talk misplaced as a Jew in the Vatican. Res­ where the woman relative was sleeping. in clusters on the footpath and not in ponsible for ‘Division X’-an area with They ordered her out of bed and when front of the telly during ads. A happy a fair selection of tough neighbourhoods she refused an officer ripped her night­ slice of suburban Karachi or Calcutta -the station has its share of criminals dress down the front. ‘This seemed like a with a dash of Caribbean, plucked out of to cope with. However Southall’s particularly unsavoury police operation’, the tropics and grafted into grim winter reputation for ‘zeal’ far outstrips its said Mr Saunders, ‘and I found the whole fields to add a little spice to the cold necessary duties. At the moment the thing indefensible’. porridge of an English October. station is operating under the harsh glare The officers in charge of the resulting The immigrants started gathering in of an AIO police inquiry, an Ealing A10 police inquiry thought differently. Southall in 1955, lured by easy money at Community Relations Council investiga­ the old Wolf Rubber Works. By 1958, the tion and a wad of national press stories trickle into Wolfs had become a flood about brutality, bashings and forced and by ’64, Southall meant England to confessions-normally enough to curb the thousands buying their Air India even the bentest bunch of coppers. tickets back in Delhi. For a time it work­ But then allegations and investigations are nothing new to the men manning the * (with no apologies whatever to headquarters of Division X. In fact the the estate of Judy Garland). would-be Honourable Mr Gilbey’s Somewhere Over at Southall, I t’s no joke, a town where police Beat up f o l k . . .*

No disciplinary charges were laid. Not surprisingly the January inquiry did nothing to dampen the station’s enthusiasm for duty-in fact it did far more damage to the citizens of Southall than if there had been no inquiry at all. To the police it looked like tacit approval of their more persuasive methods, a sort of official seal. But more than that it gave the station what amounted to a free hand in its dealings with the huge South­ all immigrant population. If it could slide out from under a series of pretty solid bashing allegations made by whites and come up smelling of roses, what hope would a black, with just a basic grasp of the English language, let alone English law or civil rights, have of making any shit stick? ‘They even beat their own people and get away with it’, one Asian community leader was to tell me. Even at this time the relationships between police and migrants was fraying. There were complaints that the police were interested in blacks only when it suited them, but when it came to keeping the peace amongst the immigrants, they didn’t want to know. After one fight be­ tween two gangs of immigrant kids, one boy was left lying seriously injured on the footpath for upwards of half an hour before any action was taken. When the police did arrive they started pushing around the residents who had gathered to assist, and one officer was heard to re­ mark: ‘We only came down here because the person who phoned could speak English’. Also at about this time Judge Grant at the Old Bailey was ruling in- admissable confessions made by two Southall immigrants, Mr and Mrs Bhooi, in an incest trial. The Bhoois claimed they had been forced to confess and the Judge ruled they had signed involuntarily. The next set of brutality charges to spark of an inquiry came to light purely by accident just two months after the January investigation. Satnam Kane was a West London petrol pump attendant who was picked up by Southall police and charged with stealing £50 from the garage he was working at. He was held at the station for six hours, signed a con­ fession and pled guilty when he appeared before the magistrate the next day. The case seemed sewn up until the magistrate, before passing sentence, questioned Kane as to why he had stolen the money. Des­ pite a string of previous convictions, Kane had kept out of trouble since marrying two years earlier. Why break this two year conviction drought? asked the magi­ strate. I didn’t steal anything, came the reply. They made 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 whole lot worse when the garage proprietor found the ‘stolen’ money in the back of a drawer where it had been all along. This left Southall holding a confession, not only from a man who denied committing any crime, but to a crime that had never in fact happened. When Kane reappeared he was repres­ ented by Malcolm Hurwitt, a former member of the National Council for Civil Liberties executive committee, who told the court that while in Southall Police Station for those six hours, Kane had been struck in the face three times and had been threatened that unless he confessed his mother and wife would be implicated. A serious allegation of con­ spiracy to pervert the course of justice was involved, said Mr Hurwitt, and the papers should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The magistrate made an order accordingly and threw the Kane case out of court. More than four months later the DPP found there was insufficient evidence to justify a police prosecution, which was news to no-one except perhaps the Southall immigrants. After being raised in their respective countries on the myth of British Justice and the Honest Bobby, here they were in London, beaten, harassed and framed. But when they complained, they were ignored. ‘Even if the trial court is not satisfied that the confession was voluntary and therefore acquits, there is virtually no risk that police malpractice that led to the confession will afterwards be forth­ coming ’, commented the NCCL news- sheet Civil Liberty, after the DPP findings were published. ‘Such a degree of immu­ nity from the risk of being found out, even in the case of quite grave miscon­ duct, must very seriously increase the temptation to behave improperly in particular cases’.

‘205 South African police were convicted in 1972 on charges o f culpable homi­ cide, intent to do grevious bodily harm and assault. Only 13 of these have been dismissed from the force’-Anti-Apart­ heid News, April 1973.

‘Temptation to behave improperly . . .’ Yes, it’s a big temptation alright. But it’s not quite that easy. You still have to watch your step. You still have to play it by the book at least part of the time. Can’t just go around picking up people off the Streets for nothing. They’ve got to be a bit suspicious. There has to be at least some sort of proof to back up the confessions they are going to sign. You might make a mistake and pull in some­ one important, someone with friends who can make trouble. Anyone can make a mistake. And then you need warrants to get into their houses. And there’s records to keep. And court appea­ rance where those smart-arse lawyers twist things around and ask questions and make you look a fool. No, you can’t just pick them up for nothing . . . even if they are black. 15th and alcohol had been consumed . . . allegations of such treatment are heard in Britain’s new retrospective immigra­ ‘The police came to my work and said respect of Southall Police’, it read. ‘In the tion laws were a boon for bent, racist they wanted me to help them with en­ previous cases, i.e. the trial of Bhooi and coppers. The 1968 Immigration Act and quiries. I was taken to Southall Police Satnam Kane, it was accepted by the this year’s Pakistani Act, the most in­ Station and they said: “You are an illegal courts that false confessions were obtained human pieces of legislation yet to ooze immigrant”. When I said no, they started by the Southall Police. We are astonished out of Middle Britain’s black paranoia, hitting me and said they would stop hit­ that the Director of Public Prosecutions gave the police more freedom than the ting me if I would say yes. Sometimes has taken no action against those police British Press. Immigrants can now be they were hitting me on my knees with officers. We therefore demand an open detained ‘on suspicion’ for an unlimited a truncheon, sometimes on my back or Parliamentary inquiry. . .’ period of time. They need never see the banging my head against the wall. They What they got was the old AIO again. inside of a courtroom from the day they had their hands over my eyes while they And although it hasn’t as yet produced are arrested and the moment they begin were hitting me so I couldn’t identify any findings, the immigrants out at South­ climbing the Air India gangplank at them. One policeman would stand on my all already know the outcome. ‘In view of Heathrow. Proof of legal entry is the only feet while another would hit me. Many the previous investigations I wouldn’t be safeguard against deportation, and, as times they did this. One I could smell very confident that anything earth- many immigrants entered Britain prior alcohol on his breath’. shattering is going to come out of the DPP to the 1968 cut-off date without having Eventually they forced Malik to give this time’, said solicitor Saunders. The had their passports stamped, there are the date of his arrival and they let him immigrants use other words. now thousands of black Britons who go. The next day he saw his solicitor * * * * fear any brush with the law. Immigrants and two doctors who confirmed his in­ who lose their passports are equally as juries. Dr Sue Evens of Hillingdon 7 know the vast, silent majority o f people vulnerable. And the speed with which Hospital found he had bruised knees, in Southall support the local police. I immigrants are ejected from the country a bumped and cut head and a swollen hope they will remain silent no longer is frightening ... no time for brutality right eye. By the time this was all over, but follow the example of Ealing-Southall charges . .. no time for AIO investiga­ Malik had become something of an Conservative Association in affirming, tions. embarrassment to the Southall constabu­ loudly and clearly, their support for the Already since January, 114 people have lary, making bashing claims to doctors boys in blue’—Mr Gilbey at the Primrose been detained under the laws and 86 and lawyers and showing wounds to prove League again. deported. Only 14 have been released. them. Obviously something had to be * * * * Social workers in immigrant areas will done. tell you tales of split families, broken A few weeks back it looked as though homes, passport raids, identification some good had actually come out of all checks and brutality for as long as you those allegations, inquiries and bruises, want to listen. Meanwhile, at the Tory and that the passive people of Southall, Party conference in Blackpool, the Go­ about as militant as a Biba shop assistant, vernment was being accused of soft- had won a major victory. The police brass, pedalling on immigration. I.D. cards for for reasons best known to themselves, blacks were discussed as the next likely signed a warrant on the Southall Cells Simmons. Paul by Illustration step. In South Africa they’re called pass and closed the station. cards. For a month the building stood empty, Southall Police Station was not slow a cold, deserted shell hidden from the in using this new manna from heaven. street by huge advertising hoardings. Soon there were ugly rumours doing the Then the wreckers moved in and, as each rounds of Southall, rumours of people day the lead ball ate deeper into the red being picked up and disappearing, brick, a crowd of locals watched cheer­ rumours of passport raids after dark, fully, not at all upset over the fall of the of driving licence checks where passports headquarters of Division X. During the were necessary, of police spies paid to two years’ rebuilding, Southall was sche­ name ‘suspects’, rumours of interpreters duled to drop in status to a sub-station pretending to be police and interrogating A week later Malik was pulled off the and Norwood Green was to have taken immigrants, rumours of more blood­ job again, taken once more to Southall command. Although only a mile or two letting in the Southall cells. No-one and from there rushed out to Heathrow. apart, the two stations are as alike, well, knows how many of the 114 people The plan was to deport him that same as black and white. Eighty-year-old detained owe their imprisonment to night, but for the second time the police Norwood, nestled away in front of its Southall zeal—‘We don’t keep figures for underestimated Mr Malik and his Southall village green between the Royal Humane individual stations’, said the Home Office friends. After frantically calling solicitors, Society, the RSPCA clinic and The Priory, man—nor in what condition they left the police and the Home Office, a cousin is a small chunk of Jane Austin England, the cells for the trip to Heathrow. On past applied for bail to the High Court which an Empire relic as remote from the East­ record it’s a fair assumption the station was granted. Four days after being ern wierdness of Southall as HP Sauce was having a field day, rounding them up whisked off to Heathrow, Malik was free. from mango chutney. in its own inimitable steel-fist style ‘Before 1 was released an immigration Southall’s boys in blue couldn’t take But once again, they blew it. officer came to me and said about my the change. Perhaps they figured their In August rumour became reality in injuries: “Maybe you fell down the stairs throttle hold on Division X was slipping, the form of one Abdul Rashid Malik, a or something, eh?” I just looked at him perhaps it was the Royal Humane Society 26-year-old machine operator in a local and said: “You think I don’t know what that got to them. Anyway, just two weeks factory. Malik, hard working, respectable, happened to me?”.’ after moving to Norwood, they packed respected, came to Britain five years ago Coming hard on the heels of the Kane up once again and moved back to a pre­ from Pakistan, struggled through the case, Malik’s story received widespread fabricated office stuck away behind the English language and English customs, press publicity and once again an inquiry growing pile of rubble that was once the and decided he liked the life. He sent off into the workings of Southall Police pride of X Division. his passport and naturalisation papers to Station was called for, not the usual ball- In home territory the lads are now the Home Office. He still doesn’t know less AIO/DPP whitewash though, but a settled and secure, the panda cars are why he was one of the twelve ‘suspected full parliamentary investigation. The roaming the streets and the rumours are illegal immigrants’ pulled in that month, Southall immigrants were tired of swallow­ flying. Down at the local school the kids and he probably never will. Perhaps one ing whitewash. A letter, signed by leaders are talking about their mate who was of his workmates wanted his job and gave of the Indian Workers Association, the pulled in for carrying wire in his pocket, the police ‘information’, perhaps his Pakistan Action Committee and the Afro wire which the police said had been used neighbour didn’t like the way he ran his Caribbean Association, was drawn up and in a robbery. Eventually he was released house. It’s like that in Southall. There had sent to the Home Secretary. on bail. . . after a beating. The dead hand been a CID party at the station on August ‘This is at least the third occasion when is firmly back on the pulse of Southall. w (■ooclhyc

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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 affairs of Chile, set in a continent notorious for Its aim was to abolish monopoly capitalism ‘Salvador Allende’. He was 64 years old, far its frequent and violent changes of govern­ and US exploitation in Chile by legal means, from pretty, middle class in lifestyle and ment, have for placid (Paris 1968?) law abiding working within the Parliamentary system. For appearance, a politician, not a warrior. Not the (Greece?) stable (Ireland?) old Europe? For the three years it fought bitter and ruthless oppo­ stuff of which teen heroes are made. And moment, let me merely say this: the next sition from within and without to cany out besides, fashions have come and gone in government of France is very likely to be a this aim, achieving considerable success and Britain since Che adorned the walls o f every Communist-Socialist alliance, with Italy not earning the overwhelming support and respect well-equipped State Smashers’ flat-Latin far behind. Even in Britain, after five years of of the working people and peasants. American revolutionaries are now rather passe inflation and depression amid escalating class It ended atrociously in September of this (perhaps it’s since Mick Jagger married one of conflict (politely called ‘industrial unrest’ by year with a military coup (possibly US aided) the other side). In any case, they’re not enter­ nice people), it no longer seems laughable for and the death of President Allende, shot dead taining and that’s what counts. Maybe I ought Lord Balogh, writing in the Evening Standard, while defending the Presidential Palace. The to plug the fact that Allende liked to tango, to warn the Labour party that Allende’s grisly triumphant military junta then launched a which I hear is all the rage this year. fate is what you get for being too bolshie. ‘white terror’ of rare viciousness in order to But despite their differences of age and Besides, the Chilean experience has an ‘old- ‘liberate the fatherland from the Marxist yoke’. image, Allende and Guevara were both part of fashioned’ ring about it which is instructive in Factories whose workers resisted the coup the same movement aimed at creating a social­ itself. All the things that trendy political were levelled by the Air Force with bombs ist Latin America free from US exploitation. scientists tell us cannot happen in parliamentary and rockets, killing thousands. Hundreds more Together with Fidel Castro, they were personal democracies happened. ‘The working class were executed in the streets and several friends who understood and respected each taking power? But my dear chap, we don’ t thousand rounded up into makeshift concen­ others’ different roads to the common goal. have classes anymore in the liberal-affluent- tration camps to await military tribunals. Readers of Oz who have grown up without consensus-democratic-industrial-post McLuhan ‘Unofficial’ Fascist death squads, eager to growing cynical would do well to understand age!’ In fact, the actors in the drama have not . revenge three years o f humiliation, dragged the significance of the Chilean tragedy, parti­ changed fundamentally since the Russian known socialist supporters from their houses cularly now that those simple certainties of Revolution; the smoke screens raised to and shot them. The game of Parliamentary 1968 seem less certain and not at all simple. obscure them have merely improved, having Democracy ended (not for the first time) with What were symbols of revolt in the ’60s, today recruited the Marcuses and Theodore Rozaks the side who invented it suspending the rules. take on a sinister ambiguity. After the coup in for added opacity. Chile is (or was) anything but the typical Santiago, the Army played rock and roll over In November 1970, the verv first democrat­ South American ‘banana republic’ of the smug the radio to keep young people off the streets, ically elected Marxist government took office European imagination. A mainly urban and and bands of wealthy kids with long hair and in Chile. Called ‘Popular Unity’ (Unidad industrial country, where copper and salt-petre faded denim flares could be seen helping to Popular), it was an alliance o f Communists and mines, iron and steel far outweigh agriculture scrub left-wing slogans off bullet riddled walls. Socialists led by Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens, a in the Gross National Product, Chile has a long But what relevance, you might ask, can the founder member of the Chilean Socialist Party. and sophisticated political history which Service, the Courts and (he Police loree were hostile. I lie Army vii on the sidelines and w atched. Tomie made several advances offering an alliance a majority in Congress in return for Popular Unity's dropping most of the socialist elements from its programme- Allende refused (a refusal which most I inopean ‘socialists’ would find hard to understand). IK a series of astounding feats of political skill and cunning, a large part of Popular Unity-' programme was pushed through, around, over or in-the-teeth-of Congress. In the t'irst year. I'S-owned copper mines were nationalised with­ out compensation, large estates were exprop­ riated and handed to Peasant Co-operatives, wages were increased, prices frozen, and health, education and housing improvements were started. Vital heavy industries, such as coal, steel, cement and textiles, were nationalised and modernised, resulting in a record economic growth rate in 1971 and a reduction in infla­ tion and unemployment. vMlende’s policy was to strike hard at the economic power-base of the wealthy industrialist and the US investor, while placating the nervous middle classes and the Army so as not to drive them into the wailing arms of the Right. Ii was a narrow tight-ropc. with civil war (and probable bloody defeat) as the penalty for falling. The working classes’ and peasants’ support for Popular Unity grew stronger, more enthusiastic and confident. Spurred on. by this, his left-wing urged Allende to go even further. and faster. I rom the Right came howls of , protest, threat's, libels, provocations, sabotage and treason. By late 1972. little more could be done without a friendly Congress, but the Christian Democrats t under I rei again) were moving rapidly Right-wards. In this y ear’s Congression­ al I lections. Popular Unity increased its vote to 44 .. but narrowly failed to gain a majority against a now solid Christian Democrat-National Party bloc. Resistance to Popular Unity came firstjy. as expected, from lhe traditional Right. I x trem e Right groups started in 197(1 a campaign ol assassinations, bombings and sabo­ tage. which continued throughout I P's rule, coming to a peak before the coup. I his had dubious political uscfullnvss. however, as Allende could always turn demonstratively to the middle classes and say. ‘I pok. you are the ones who break the Law !’ More damaging was the economic and financial resistance of the wealthy classes illegal export of capital, a dollar black market, faelory-lockouis. I he United States added to makes I tame. Italy and even Germany look the Central American 'banana republics’, little ’this an economic blockade1 and deliberately ; like banana republics when measured by the agricultural land was US owned, which may sabotaged Chile’s posiiion in the world money number ol collapsed regimes and violent partly explain why the US didn’t intervene markets. I andowners’ resistance to peasants' political episodes. The Republic’s parliamen­ directly against Allende. They had to deal with take-over of the land led to fighting and lost tary system dates back to 1833. something far more tricky than a peasant harvests. Until 1964 Chile was ruled almost without rebellion. \H this, combined with the collapse tin interruption by representatives of a small UNI D AD P O P l’l AR IN I’OAVI K. .1972 of the price of copper on the w orld ruling class o f big landow ners, m ineow tiers. f rom 1964 to 197(1. the C hristian D em o­ markets, put a stop to the promising economic ! industrialists and financiers (dominated by crats ruled Chile under President I rei. and boom ol 1971 and inflation crept back. But the wealthy families such as the I dward clan), failed to carry out their promised and muel) decisive blow was none of these, which alone whose attitude to unruly workers could be needed reforms, in particular, they did not could have been weathered, albeit with summarised as 'Let them eat grupeshot’. Since break the US strangle-hold on Chile's mining difficulty (theCuban revolution survived the laic I94ds. the new prolessional middle industry , and tailed to unseat the large and in­ worse). The killer blow was the organised classes, whose views tend to be more progress­ efficient landowners. By I 97(1. inflation, un­ opposition of the middle classes. ive. have vied w ith this grisly I orsy te Saga and employ ment and poverty were raging and the After Tomie’s flirtations failed. Irei's j the Marxist I eft for parliamentary power. CDP’s popularity crashed. With the Presidential wing of the CDP regained the initiative and The Chilean sy stem was rather like that of I lections approaching, the party's left wing swung into full-blooded opposition in Congress, the USA. with an executive (the President and gained the upper hand and put forward hoping to secure Allende’s resignation and his G o v ern m en t) ruling through a civil Radomiro Tomie as candidate, shattering hopes their own return to power. More importantly, service bureaucracy, and a separate legislature of further support from the right wing in alliance with the right wing press (particular­ (the two houses of Congress) to make or ■ National Party, who offered their own e\- ly the I dw ards' /;'/ Mercurio) which was given approve new laws. President and Congress President Allessandri. With his opponents so free voice by 'Communist Dictator Allende'. were elected separately and by no means al­ divided. Allende sailed through the gap to they set out to mobilise middle class opposition. ways saw eye to eye. sometimes being control­ victory w ith 36.3 • of the vote. By deliberale use ol media scare tactics (for led by rival parties. Having sworn before a hostile Congress to example over UP s proposed legal and constitu­ But perhaps the decisive influence on Chile' respect the C onstitution. Allende and Popular tional reforms), they achieved their aim. j development is US imperialism, which took Unity set out on the Chilean Road to Socialism. eventually, in a strange and significant over where Britain and Germany left off at the The only powers which Popular Unity possessed reversal of roles, the Christian Democrats m m ol the century. Before 1970. US business were those invested in the President and the began fomenting strikes among white collar owned the bulk of Chile's lucrative mining extra-P.irliamcntary mobilisation of the workers workers and professionals. A lorry-owners’ industry, several banks, and had lingers in and peasants themselves. Congress was control­ strike paralysed the country (which depends •Imosi every profitable industrial pie. Unlike led by lire C hristian D em ocrats. I lie Civil heavily on road transport) for weeks until broken by the Army at Allende’s request. But the peace was temporary. A second lorry- owners’ 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 attempted 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 of thou­ Snow. George by Illustration sands of 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 of inflation’. The roles of executioner and coroner are not usually so boldly com­ bined and many may question the tact, let alone the accuracy, of such a verdict. The political complexion of the new Regime will present few surprises. The Junta initially claimed its aims to be basically ‘demo­ THE LEFT left-wing under Radomiro Tomic, who see it cratic’, and that any gains made by workers Communist Party: formed in 1921 and consis­ as a democratic non-Marxist ‘alternative’ to under Unidad Popular would not be revoked tently pro-Russian. From 1931 onwards it has capitalism (stressing such fashionable things as (as credible as a mugger asking for change of a been committed to a Parliamentary strategy. workers’ participation in management and co­ fiver). Their record, so far, suggests otherwise. Banned between 1925-35 and 1948-58. In­ operation between classes). The further left Three hundred nationalised companies are to volved in several unsuccessful compromise split off as MAPU in 1969 and joined Unidad be returned to their ‘owners’, as are the large governments with the Radicals in the 1940s, it Popular. estates. Allende’s wage increases have been finally allied with the Socialists behind Allende THE RIGHT cancelled and enormous increases in staple in 1958. Conservative Party: the oldest Chilean party, food prices (of up to 500%) decreed. Schools Socialist Party: formed in 1933 after the abor­ traditionally the party of the landowners and and universities are being purged, the hunting tive 12-day ‘Socialist Republic’ (a palace the Catholic Church. down and execution of socialists continues. revolution led by an Air Force officer Marma- Liberal Party: arose with industry as the party Most significantly, the 1925 Constitution has duke Grove). It rejected the Communist of the new-rich industrialists and mine owners. been abolished and a new one is to be written political dependence on Russia, and has always Fought a brief civil war with the conservatives excluding the Left from ever regaining power; been doubtful about Parliamentary tactics, over the Church/State question, but soon the Parliamentary Road has come to a dead leaning on occasion far to the Left. Joined, resolved their differences. end in Chile. ‘Now’, the Generals have promised, rather warily, with the Communists to put These parties dominated Chilean politics ‘there will be no more politics’. Allende up for President in 1958. He came until WW2 when the Radicals and then the This leaves as a probable future a long, second out of five candidates. The alliance put Christian Democrats eroded their position as painful guerilla struggle led by the MIR (Revo­ him forward again in 1964 on a more radical ‘The Establishment’. In 1964, alarmed by lutionary Left Movement), Socialists and platform, but were defeated by a right-wing Allende’s popularity, they backed Frei (the perhaps Communists, whose organisations are counter-alliance. CDP candidate) giving him the Presidency with by no means destroyed. The outcome-Bolivian Radical Party: Chile’s oldest Left party formed a hefty 50% of the vote. When he set out on a defeat, Cuban victory, or Vietnamese holocaust in the 1880s by mainly upper and middle course of, what were to them, radical reforms, -is not a subject for easy prediction, optimistic class reformers (gaining a reputation for they were so outraged and panic-stricken that or otherwise. vacillation in policy and corruption in office). they merged into a single, extreme right, A similar caution could also be exercised Ruled with Communist help in the 1940s, but National Party. when drawing lessons for Europe. The ‘Parlia­ soon turned on them and banned them. Moved FNLP: successor to various Chilean fascist mentary Road’, correctly understood, neither Leftward in the 1960s and declared itself groups, the National Front For Fatherland stands nor falls by the Chilean defeat. To refuse Marxist in 1971. And Liberty was responsible for much of the a part in electoral politics in Chile (or France Unidad Popular: an alliance o f Communists, terrorist action against Unidad Popular. With or Italy) would have condemned the Marxist Socialists, Radicals, MAPU and small socialist considerable support in the Forces, it has parties to that same near-impotence they enjqy arties, formed before the 1970 Presidential moved openly since the coup; its ‘death squads’ in Britain. tlections on a radical socialist platform. have executed known leftists in many parts of Nevertheless, Allende ‘unlike some commu­ MIR: the Revolutionary Left Movement, a Chile. nists nearer home’, didn’t believe that one may guerilla group committed to armed revolution THE ARMED FORCES be elected and then, peacefully and unopposed, who were responsible for assassinations, kid­ The Chilean Army was the first modern army legislate socialism into being. But the military nappings and bank robberies before 1970. in South America, thanks to re-organisation realities o f a modern state don’t allow you to After Allende’s election they ceased operations and training by the Germans during their be elected and then simply ‘cheat’. Allende and conditionally supported Unidad Popular, period of influence around 1900. The British chose to abide by the Constitution, not because while remaining armed and agitating for more performed the same service to the Navy. Des­ it was God-Given, but to avoid instantly losing radical measures. cendants of British settlers have played a strong those middle sectors who believe that it was, THE CENTRE role in the Armed Forces, hence such Generals and without whose temporary support (as Christian Democratic Party (CDP): this mode­ names as Moore, Pickering and Leigh. Apart Lenin discovered over half a century ago) no rate, Catholic reform party rose spectacularly from short periods, the Army has kept out of socialist revolution can succeed. in influence throughout the 1950s. Originally politics; the Parliamentary system was so well It is almost a revolutionary commonplace aimed at attracting working class support from established that the ruling groups seldom that a Workers’ State cannot take over the the Marxist Left (in which it failed), it is found need to rule through them. Since WW2, existing bureaucracy and Armed Forces and supported mainly by the professional and no elected government had, until now, been wield them to its own ends. But exactly how, middle classes-doctors, lawyers, technicians, deposed by the Army. Politically, the Army in modern circumstances, ohe may transform managers, civil servants, some privileged became as deeply divided as the nation itself, them is a far from commonplace problem. Un­ workers such as copper miners, and a section of with many soldiers and officers in support of idad Popular failed tragically to solve it. The the peasantry. Its policies reflect the aspirations Allende (including his friends, Generals Prats, European Ultra-Left might do better to worry of these groups-a modern, efficient, capitalist Pulveda, Pickering). During the coup these than to crow ‘I told you so’. Chile, less economically dominated by the forces were immobilised, often violently. The And those Oz readers for whom politics is USA, but politically friendly. The CDP has a Junta itself appears to lean more towards the still a dirty word would do well to reflect that right-wing under Eduardo Frei, who see reform Christian Democrats than the traditional the prospect for ‘fucking in the streets’ in only as the last barrier against socialism, and a Right, but appearances may well deceive. Santiago has never been worse. rrorot secre k ■ I N K F L O

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Now iences than any scientist around. when Albert Einstein got to the happen to be a Particular heaven at Folsom Prison hell or wherever in prison, and that destiny led him, and he began may seem odd.. .a philosopher talking about the equations of in prison. But I Save to say this space-time and the relativity about my profession, The best theory, I know that there’s a philosophers often end up in reporter or a television man prison. If you’re a good baseball saying ‘Yeah, Albert, but what player, you often end up in the * about the Atomic Bomb?’ And major leagues. If you’re a really he’ll say, ‘Yeah, it’s true that it’s successful politician, you end up those crazy mixed up kids who in Washington, I’m sorry to'say. got ahold of the atomic bomb on If you’re really a good philoso­ the base of my theories and pher, if you’re coming out with blew up Nagasaki and Hiroshima new ideas about the seven great ...' So I have to take the respon­ destiny questions that are gonna sibility for drugs as being one rattle the walls of the social in­ part of the philosophy that I’ve stitution . .. Most of the men been teaching and studying and that I model myself after have working on. been lucky if they got away with Did you not advocate LSD ?... just being in prison for their the use of it? ideas. No, I never advocated drugs. I As far as the general public's defended drugs, different drugs, concerned you're probably best against unscientific charges. But known for your views on drugs. as soon as you start saying mari­ When did you really get started juana is not a killer drug, whoo, working with drugs? you become an advocate . . . Uh, starting in 1960 at Harvard When did the various officials University. .. I ve no more to do with dru, to do with the Atomic Bom b' really start applying pressure? Well, I don't know how many What role? How? An exclusive 'imothy Leary. Well, for many years before that Americans know this, but I as a psychologist and once study­ At this moment Timothy Leary, advance madman for a new age, i have the honor o f being the ing the nervous system and the maximum security wing of Folsom Prison. If the law has its w person that started G Gordon knowing that the nervous system he will remain there for the rest of hi* life. Liddy on his, uh, meteoric is the key to all human know­ Illegally convicted twice on dope charges, Once on the San Lui career. As much as anyone in ledge, I had been looking for Obispo prison escape and spuriously indicted in the so-called Brot this country, I put Gordon Lii instruments to see how the mind bood dealer conspiracy, Leary is looking at a deck stacked strong! in the White House. and nervous system works. And against his seeing clear light for a long time. He was out after you, wasn t in the 1960s : all know very But instead of languishing in this central Californian hellhole v Yeah, he was an mt DA well, ong as modes the mid-summer sun can turn a man’s brain into fried eggs, Leary o f expani i just risen to a level of impressive vitality and productivity. He follows a scientific centre, like ' 1 microscopes, rigorous routine of exercise and physical yoga, counsels prisoners, studying consciou: If you idy the several hours daily, devours information from every available med Gordon was very s are one of input, and carries on a voluminoril correspondeiWe. K of course, there the major 1 In this prison interview, extraordinaryior its optimism and sel people that are You were 1 at it from a awareness, Leary analyses the times, recounts what it’s like to be i on his trip, but: research vii you ever go ed guru to a generation of blown minds, and answers the critics w was a . . . The fi away from iw, or every cBldder old Tim’s eaten too much acid. harrassed by th tim e you « vith drugs Saturday night. were you li it it from a question whether I may Association, the American i my the right direction, Association, even William Bi to my son and the great centre move- the conservative writer and and in came 0 I society and science won't vision star, they’re all coi ly with■ 24H B B an. impu These are the risks around to positions that : great questions 1 far-out scientist takes. oonsidered radical in espoui come from?, where i But I have the certain, empirical, in the 1960s. „ ig? We are on this planet, “ "* ital proof that I’m not I believe you said ten yeari no this spaceship Earth. How are ong, because most that you wanted to changi warrant was thro- ou ey did we gonna get along with < g that I’ve said in ’ tiritual level of the Unite| confiscate a little had ? How can we use < 3, my testimony before •id you consider yoursel on peat moss, which was a gera­ leads? So I’ve always 1 mittees about how iessiah in a sense? You s; nium. But Gordon Liddy then ran :ed in find' oid a drug problem ir own church. for Congress on the basis that he our ne this country; in those days I •ell, if you hadn't aske had driven me out of the county ment to an: *"**— st alone as a voice saying >ut drugs today, I woi and from there he went to the of life. I ,a happen and beware, brought it up. 11 ' White House as a drug expert. really gets it happen, and I was the nervous system, 11. ' how did Gordon Liddy < science d^jSretty radical; for how we can use our km be a drug expert? Be tions, gets d o f mystical, gets g that marijuana to make this country had fought Timothy Leary. 1 philosophic. It’s inevitable and criminalized, LSD place, I talk about ho has been well known, it’ I’ve accepted that responsibility. e turned over to the i crime and that sort of| testified to recently, I think we need at'this time a ent, to be treated like want to point out th^j 1966. Since then I have been in new philosophy. fissionable material, like atomics the one w ho’s asking, continual, uh . .. I know exactly Are you ahead of your time? Is . . . In the subsequent years most about drugs. Now, I I have how that system works—your that why you haven't been of my prophesies have come to answer questions phones being bugged, being accepted totally yet? true and many very conservative because I’ve been 1: harrassed and so forth. They tried Yes, I’m in a kind of a time organs like the American Medical say in prison, ‘it’s it out on me before they tried it warp. I’m definitely ahead of i Association, American Psychiatric But, I've no more ti out on Senator Muskie and Senator McGovern. ately the price of insulin would Ten years ago you were giving go up, like the price of heroin, advice. What kind o f advice do and you’d have diabetics going you give young people today? around robbing and stealing to Well, you know I’ve been off the get their fix. But for me, heroin air for three and a half years and is no trip. I haven't given any advice. I’ve You’re sitting here in prison and been letting other people take what are you doing productively? over to see how good the advise The main thing I’m doing is is they could pass on. My main taking advantage of this oppor­ rdvice to everyone is to . . . we tunity to study society, from this got to learn how to use our heads. very interesting vantage point. We got to realize that the ner­ I’m talking to prisoners, I’m vous system can be used as an listening to them, I’m doing some instrument to help us understand writing. This is where it’s happen­ why w e’re here and where we’re ing. It's a microcosm, you got all oing. I think w e’ve got to change, the raw essence of human society n 1976, America is going to be here, this is where you can really 200 years old. We're proposing see it coming down. And in some that we organise a political ways it may seem a cop-out for party, but not a party of one me to say this, but I don’t really against another . . . a Birthday trust any philosopher who hasn’t Party. We’d like to see the United been on the other side of the States move into it's third century system and somehow seen it from with the same spirit we had two the perspective of the alienated, hundred years ago. Now, as I or the blacks, or those who’ve look around since I've been back, been pushed down in society. It’s I don’t see that Mr Nixon or the a rare experience. It’s nothing I Democrats have a programme want to make a career of. It’s that’s going to lead us into the very easy to get institutionalised third century with this vigour but, uh, see, it's ray ambition to that we need. We’ll limp or really liberate the world. Why not? crawl or kind of stagger into the Why settle for anything less? I third century, which I think is a have a sense of humour about it tragedy. So I don’t have any ad­ . . . I know that the odds are vice for anyone. I’m just simply against me. But we only have a saying that we’re going to be few years here. Let’s try to leave broadcasting our ideas of hope this spaceship a better place and and of confidence and of courage all the models and all the philoso­ . . . and we don’t say w e’re right, phers and all the men that I think but God knows we’re about have really liberated humanity ready for a new philosophy. It’s have all done their time, on the going to come. outside. I want to get back in. I Would you give advice on the think I belong to American society use of drugs, nowadays? I think that a society that impris­ Yeah, I should do that, and I’ll ons it’s philosophers is playing look right into the eyes of with very bad magic. You just everyone that’s reading this and can’t imprison ideas. And the one say that I don’t urge you to take thing that we can see in societies LSD in particular. LSD is the that become constricted and most powerful substance that the repressed is that the life flow human being has ever developed goes out of it It's a scandal, a for influencing the mind. I’ve national scandal that I'm here, used the comparison of nuclear and I’m going to make it clearer energy or fissional material. I and clearer that, uh, you know, think that in the right hands, the about this magic, two days after scientific and disciplined and I was kidnapped, by presidential hopeful people, it will bring order, to bring me back to this about changes. But for, uh... I country, that was January 18. don’t want anyone reading this to January 20th, Watergate started get any other message, that I’m to blow. So that Nixon, at that telling you to stay away from moment when I came back to the LSD. In the first place, 99% of country, was at his peak. Look what's called LSD, isn’t LSD. where he is today. And the king And 99% of the things that are of Afghanistan, who had invited said about LSD are totally lies or me there and could have protect­ fabrications. The whole thing is ed me but was off for a weekend, so confused now that I'll flatly was kicked out just about two make that statement. weeks ago. Now I’m gonna be You also said in the past that you around as long as they are, and are afraid o f heroin. You don t the ball game’s far from over, like heroin. > when you’re dealing with philoso­ Personally, I don't like heroin at phical ideas. all. It’s a down trip. It’s an escape They weren't listened to before— trip, and, although I'm an escape your other ideas on drugs and so artist, I like to escape into life, on. not escape from life. I think that Oh, how can you say that? I heroin addiction is like diabetes think I had as much influence or it’s like epilepsy. There are on events that went down in the certain people that just physiolo­ 60’s as anyone around. There are gically and psychologically are so millions of people all over the wired up that they’re going to be world who think I’m the greatest attracted to this mode of escape. philosopher of the 20th century. And heroin addicts, there would I know it may seem a joke to probably be sixty or a hundred some of you, but you just can’t thousand if we’d kept the money crush ideas by disregarding them. thing out of it. It could be hand­ The government didn't listen to led by physical prescriptions, by me, but millions of other people doctors, just the way diabetics now use insulin. But if you pass­ You've been arrested more than ed a law against insulin, immedi­ once. The government or the various officials claimed that Does it remain that way? you had in your possession drugs Uh-huh, yeah. or marijuana. Were any of those Well know n Senator? legitimate? Very well known. No. As a matter of fact I’ve never Does the Senator know? been legitimately arrested. I’m in Oh, sure. prison now because one evening I Three hundred of the eighteen was in a parked car, and a police­ hundred people in this prison are man came up to the car and here for drug use or sale, or opened the door, against my whatever. You said that you wishes, and made a pass at the have to accept some responsibil­ ash-tray and said: ‘You’re under ity for the drug revolution. Do arrest for ...’ I said 'For what?' you accept the responsibility He said ‘for Marijuana'. I said for them being here? 'What marijuana?’ And he reach­ Why, no, because if the govern­ ed in his pocket and pulled out ment had followed my suggest­ two joints that I’d never seen ions ten years ago when I testified before, half joints, and said ‘You before Congress, we wouldn't are under arrest’. A year later in have had this drug problem. I Orange County, you know Orange predicted exactly what would County, the jury believed the happen, laid it all out, warned policeman’s story and found me them against it, and we created a guilty for possession of mari­ new class of criminals. You know juana. Now the judge, instead of in 1969, before Nixon took getting me bail as I was entitled over, the Narcotics Bureau had to for appeal, held up a book a budget of twenty million that I had been writing and said dollars. Today it's two hundred 'Your ideas are dangerous, and and forty million dollars. It's an we're not going to give you bail army of narcs going around knock­ and w e’re going to put you in ing down people’s doors, as you prison to keep you quiet’. Now well know . . . And the drug use is I'm not complaining because I going up. I could solve the drug think I should have been shut up problem in this country in six then, I'd been around the United months. States for ten years, talking and How? spreading my message, and I think Well, it depends how much lee­ it’s good in a public life to have a way I had. What I’d really like to chance to lay back and see what do to eliminate all crime in this the opposition's going to do. I country would be to eliminate thought I’d lay back a couple of cash money. Now, I think you’re years and see how well the other very well aware that the drug side was gonna do. But last problem, much to my horror and January, in Afghanistan, the to my anguish, in the last few American government agents years has become very closely (they're part of that same connected with money. In the Liddy-Narcotics Bureau group) early days, 1960, '62, '65, it was stole my passport and, illegally, only a free, voluntary grouping kidnapped me. I apparently of people who were looking for was wanted back here. I think new ways to use their heads and there aren’t very many philo­ to find a new way of life. But in sophies of hope and freedom the last five years, to my horror, being broadcast, so they may a money situation has developed. try to shut me up. Ya know, the Now when they bust a big people who have broadcast hope heroin dealer they don’t say: in this country, in the last few ‘Well, it could have ruined a few years, many of them are killed. hundred lives. . .' Mostly they I know it’s a risky job, but I’m say, 'Five million dollars, ten here and I’m going to keep broad­ million dollars'. I think if we casting. eliminated cash money, elimina­ Do you think the sentence was ted personal checks, and had p u t on you extra tough because everything on the basis of person­ you are Tim Leary? alized dockets, all money trans­ In the first place I don't think actions would be computerised anyone should go to prison for in your bank. You could only the possession of marijuana So cadi money in your own back it’s unfair for everybody. I don't this way. If there wasn't all this think there’s any question though, free, anonymous money floating that if another middle-aged, around you wouldn't have dope Grissim John by Photographs middle-class person was found dealing, most o f the crime with two of these in their would be knocked out. You pocket, they wouldn’t be doing wouldn't have Watergates be­ prison time. But I am Timothy cause you couldn't have all those Leary, and I... I don't think it’s little White House people with so much my ideas, because there their bags full of this cash run­ are a lot of people running ning around. Now, I'm glad to around the country preaching new say, looking at the prison ideas. The reason I’m in prison is ‘ ' 1I thin! thmk that ‘administrators, because my ideas were listened Folsom Prison has come up with to by millions of people and got a an experimental model of how little too popular. That’s my to do away with financial version orit. crime. 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So, You should have your own if that’s insane, count me in. picture and your own thing in But, otherwise, make up your front of it. own mind. What about brain damage by the You’re an optimist... A hope use of drugs? Do you think that fie n d . . . you've suffered any brain Yeah, I've been called an irre­ damage, whatsoever? pressible optimist. The opposite Am I insane? Of course, that’s a of an irrepressible optimist is a very tricky question for anyone repressive pessimist. And 1 think to answer. I ve lived through the that’s what’s running the 30’s, and the 4 0 ’s, and the 50’s, country today. and the 60’s, and I think that What do you think of your anyone w ho’s still erect after future? Do you think you're those years has had his sanity going to walk out o f Folsom tested. I’m 52 years old, facing Prison a free man one day? the problems o f maturity and I think my future is very in­ getting old. I’ve been through a tensely connected with the Eddie Kendricks lot of rough times in the last few future of this country. You just years. My career has been ruined, can’t keep your philosophers in STML11245 they took my credit card away at prison. If I am kept in prison, it’s Including the hit single Harvard and I’ve been harrassed going to be a very bad symptom ‘KeepOnTruckin.’ by the United States government for freedom and for hope and for pretty heavily. And I’ve been in union. After all, in a way, I’m a four prisons, all without commit- spokesman for millions of ing any crime that I know of. I’ve Americans, and how ’re you been in solitary confinement for going to bring the country to­ four months. In addition to all of gether if you re going to be lock­ these pressures I’ve probably ing up people that are saying pushed my nervous system as things that many people believe much as any human being living. in. It’s never worked before. I’ve taken LSD over 500 times, I While we've been sitting here and have experienced a wide range of chatting, I’ve been wondering these bio-chemical and neuro­ what's on your shirt. logical possibilities. I think I’m This is a very interesting symbol the strongest, sanest person for some of us. This is a replica around. Now I’m not making any of the remnants of a living organ­ guarantees for the future, but ism, that was found on a meteor­ that's just my opinion. But then, ite that came from inter-star or you know, in my position I have extra-planetary space. This is to really check myself pretty proof that life exists somewhere carefully. Is there any objective off our planet. Now we feel that in this? Well, I find that the this is the first contact with people that I talk with, get to higher intelligence, or somewhere know me, seem to think I’m out there, there is another point pretty sane. I’ve written two of view. 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your immediate future—in the case of Smith’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 Lampoon) 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 comes to funky, freaky, comic- strip style humour. And there's Fritz Leiber’s gentle fable ‘The PIN UPS Secret Songs’ (1962), of the omni­ David Bowie (RCA) scient crocodile invented by Gwen and Donnie, the modern couple, Curiouser and curiouser. It took one on downers, the other on until 1968 for people to start uppers. Other classics herein: getting nostalgic about the '50s, Norman Spinrad’s ‘Objectivity’ but lo and behold, it ain't even featuring the imaginary hallucino­ 1974 yet and already there’s a Lowenkamp Richard by Illustration genic Omnidrene (soon to be seen hankering for the '60s in the air. in action in the forthcoming And who should be leading the Ogoth movie); Frederik Pohl's New Wave of '60s nostalgia but 'What to Do Until the Analyst David Bowie. Curiouser and still Comes', Le. chewing euphoric curiouser. non-habit-forming (?) gum; and Pin Ups brings together songs more! by the Who (‘I Can't Explain’ and I think I can safely say that if ‘Anyway Anyhow Anywhere'), you are at all interested in either The Pretty Things (‘Rosalyn’ and drugs or science fiction you will ‘Don't Bring Me Down’), The enjoy this book. Recommended Yardbirds ( I Wish You Would' reading position: horizontal, and ‘Shapes of Things'), Them stoned, late at night. (‘Here Comes The Night'), the Caroline MacKechnie. Pink Floyd (‘See Emily Play’), the Kinks (‘Where Have All The Good Times Gone'), the Merseys BILLION YEAR SPREE fused, state of knowledge half of the book and I for one (‘Sorrow’), the Easybeats (‘Friday Brian Aldiss (Weidenfeld & (science), and is characteristically was pleased to see Mr Aldiss On My Mind’) and the Mojos Nicholson, £3.75). cast in the Gothic or post- lashing out the praise and awards (‘Everything's All Right'). So far, Gothic mould'. to all of my personal favourites. critical reaction has veered from Science Fiction has come of age, So for Aldiss, the whole she­ Mr Alfred Bester, his classic the lukewarm to the downright out of the Ghetto of Retarded bang starts with Mary Shelley and Tiger Tiger (what Aldiss calls contemptuous. On certain levels, Boyhood, beyond the Bug-Eyed Frankenstein, the first exposition ‘wide screen baroque'), Sheckley, the adverse criticisms have been Monster Barrier and, if Aldiss's of the theme, at once atheistic Pohl and Kornbluth, old Arthur justified, but it all comes down to judgement is correct and Sci Fi and doomed, of man's triumph C Clarke, Simak, James Blish, this: what criteria are appropriate is primarily a creature of ‘prodro- over matter and, in the end him­ Kuttner, Harrison, Sturgeon-the for dealing with this particular mic utterance’, then its future self (or not as the case may be). list is endless, leading on into the venture. seems sparkling, assured and He slots in Edgar Allen Foe and a New Wave of the sixties that All right, first the bad news. widespread. We live in an age of host o f Victorians as further pre­ sprang up around Michael Moor­ Bowie has failed to differentiate science fiction come to life; cursors of the genre, and these cock and that strange genius J G between songs he likes and songs Prometheus is not only unchain- ’ early chapters are the best, Ballard, who perhaps best that he can sing without modify­ ed but he’s moved into our living simply because, with less material epitomises Bill Burrouqhs' state­ ing his basic vocal approach. rooms and even wears his slippers to discuss, his analysis is that ment that 'a paranoid is a guy Basically, Bowie’s vocal style by the fire. much more detailed. By the turn who’s just discovered what’s has been developed to express To understand the twentieth of the century, with Verne and going on’. Harlan Ellison and lyrics, and in some cases even century it will be to Wells and then Wells, he picks up speed. the dangerous viewers of virions, act them out. Therefore, this Aldous Huxley, Orwell and Olaf But on the whole Aldiss (a good Zelazny and Disch, Delaney, approach only works with good Stapleton that future generations scifi writer on his own account) Sladek and Ursula Le Gulnn-the lyrics. Since only ‘See Emily will turn for an analysis of our misses nothing. He traces the new wave is an ocean and the Play' and ‘Where Have All The times. Aldiss, with great precision, coming of Burroughs, the vigour of the old macho, semi- Good Times Gone' have any­ derives two poles, an analytical Gernsbackian tradition of mech­ psychotic hard core SF of the thing even approaching what are one bound in conscious thought anical fiction and the eruption Campbell/Heinlein masculine generally regarded as good lyrics, and descending from H G Wells, in the thirties of E E ‘Doc’ Smith school has been trasnferred with most of the songs collapse under and a dreaming one, begun by who really kicked off the billion a strong injection of grace and the weight of what Bowie puts Edgar Rice Burroughs, where year spree with such massive style into something that you’d into them. In addition, most of Tarzan and his fellows battle ever works as the Lensman saga. better believe is going places fast. the songs are r'n’b (albeit r'n’b onwards against colossal odds. Then the forties, John Brian Aldiss has produced an once removed) and Bowie really Between these two, the genre we Campbell and Astounding (the informative and entertaining isn't an r'n'b ringer, though he call Science Fiction is drawn and magazine that often 'smelt so history of the growth of the can sing in the appropriate style woven. much of the research laboratory leading literature of our times. It if he things he ought to. There­ Hugo Gernsback coined the that it should have been printed should appeal to a great variety fore ‘Rosalyn’, 'I Wish You Would' phrase first, back in the twenties on filter paper’), the mad loony of people from hard core, and ‘Everything’s All Right’ are when he edited Amazing Stories worlds o f A E Van Vogt, the opinionated buffs, to the well sung, and ‘Anyway Anyhow and, although inaccurate from the robotics of Asimov, Heinleln ignorant, for whom the genre Anywhere’ picks up remarkably start, it has gone on being and his time puzzles. The birth, is something vaguely concerned well after an initially disastrous applied to a wide range of stories. really, of the present day tradi­ with space ships or robots and opening where he tries to sing like Here is Aldiss’s definition: tions. to whom I heartily recommend Presley (Elvis, not Reg). ‘Science Fiction is the search Of course by now the rate of the Billion Year Spree. After all, With the exception of 'I Can’t for a definition of man and his progress is fast indeed, an end­ they have nothing to lose but Explain', where an attempt to do status in the universe which will less selection of authors and their brains. a Vanilla Fudge slowdown coll­ stand in our advanced, but con­ titles takes up most of the latter Chris Rowley, apses almost instantly, most of the tracks are very neatly arranged point of fact, neither of these pumping it out while the plump band lurk in the background, one and played. Mick Ronson bands bears much resemblance little chickles lumped out at her of them downing a beer with a (guitar), Mike Garson (piano), to the original Spirit, but both feet in that graceless dance that style and grace that any biker Trevor Bolder (bass) and Aynsley have ridden the legend for what­ the BBC seem to find so attrac­ would be proud of. Dunbar (drums) carry themselves ever it was worth. tive. I’ve always been partial to So far, everything about La like officers and gentlemen And apparently that legend Detroit rock and roll, and for Quatro seemed very fine. There throughout. must still be worth a lot for that matter, equally partial to seemed to be only one thing If you were into all this stuff anyone to bother putting out rock and roll bands in solid black missing, and that, I fear, was the first time around then you pro­ this very belated tribute to the uniforms. I gave it my full atten­ music. bably won't touch this with a old Spirit—a band who never tion, and, by the standards of Suzi Quatro’s music has most ten-foot dlldo, unless someone really broke through to mass that idiot pop show, it was quite of the ingredients of most of the tries to talk you into it. Allow acceptance, who scored only one a passable way of decorating best rock music that has come me to try, however. If you app­ US hit single ever, yet about what might have been a very out of Detroit in the last five roach it as a fairly charming whom people still speak in tedious three minutes. years. The problem is that the piece of nostalgic self-indulgence, reverent tones. Spirit were a I happened across Ms Quatro mixture is not quite strong enough. then you’re not going to en­ cult group with a cult following. next while idly leafing through If you compare it with, say, Back counter any major barriers. They had no real image, no a copy o f Penthouse. There on in the USA by the MC5, it be­ On the other hand, if all stable musical identity. They page nineteen was a grinning comes immediately apparent that these songs are new to you, then wrote some good sonas and made Suzi, in zips and chains, eagerly the Suzi Quatro album just you're really going to dig it. some beautifully produced albums telling the Penthouse readers doesn't make it on that level. The Listen to Pin Ups in the spirit and very few people ever heard about the time she forgot to wear question is, is it supposed to? The in which it was made and it's of them, except maybe their panties on stage, the time she had Rolling Stones playing 'Come mostly an okay album, and on 'Fresh Garbage' on that ubiquit­ an orgasm on stage, the mail she On' was pretty damn inferior to occasion (particularly ‘Where ous CBS sampler. In that sense, gets from perverts. She went on Chuck Berry, but they were light Have All The Good Times Gone’) Spirit were perhaps a definitive to make it very clear that she years ahead of Billy Fury. In the it’s considerably better than late '60s Progressive Album liked big butch men, didn’t need same way I suppose Suzi Quatro that. band. And yet they were so women s lib, and faggots in serves up a product that is better One problem remains. What clearly several classes above most makeup and glitter had no chance than the average teeny fare. I the hell is going on in the '70s of their contemporaries in that with her. Fair enough, she seemed ain’t ever going to play this album that people are going to want to horrific category. to be establishing herself as a for fun, but I don’t think I'm aet nostalgic about in the '60s? Just why Spirit never made it tough, heterosexual Detroit exactly supposed to. You gotta think ahead, y’know. remains a mystery to me. Musical/ rocker bird, a refreshing pheno­ There's just one other thing Charles Shaar M urray. personal differences? Inability menon in a somewhat jaded pop that bothers me. It took me a to hold on to a definite style? scene. while to put a finger on it, but in Mass stupidity on the part of the Then came this album. It has the end I got it. Something about BEST OF SPIRIT record-buying public? Structural a black and white cover with her reminded me of Lulu, and it Spirit (Epic) non-functionalism? I don’t know. tough little Suzi in the foreground, was all over. But I do know that Best o f black leather jacket, jeans, Spirit? They were well named. S p tit is a fine album. A few of thumbs hooked in her belt. The Mick Farren. Even now, from this distance the selections are open to criticism, in time, they elude critical but overall this is pretty much the Judgements. What, exactly, were best of Spirit, including their best they about? The deadly cool Los song ever, Randy California's Angeles soft rock of Fresh long-deleted 1970 paranoid opus Garbage and Mechanical World single '1984'. That one, at least, with which they launched their still sounds as fresh as ever, and career; the inspired post-Cream CBS should re-release it while hard-rock of 'I Got A Line On there's still time ... You' and ‘1984’; or the pure '. . those flexi-plastlc coppers dumbness of something like they're your special friends 'Animal Zoo’ or ‘Mr Skin’, tracks you see them every night which nearly deny the title of they call themselves protection this collection? but you know it s no game Spirit, or at least the original you're never out o f their sight Spirit who made all the music 1984 contained here, split up a couple knocking on your door of years back. The old story: w ill you let it come musical/personal differences. will you let it run But Spirit must always have been your life?' a pretty uneasy coalition: A ndrew Weiner. Hendrix trainee Randy California with his electronically modulated lead riffs; California's ageing SUZI QUATRO jazz drummer stepfather Ed Suzi Quatro (RAK) Cassidy—the mysterioso bleached- out Mekon adorning their early It’s hard to know about Suzi album covers; classically trained Quatro. The first time I ever keyboards man John Locke, with heard of her was when there was his penchant for cocktail lounge a full colour picture of this lady tinkling; bass man Mark Andes, in her black leather suit and who wore a dress on stage three snakeskln boots swinging a big yeras ago; and microphone- old Fender bass. The first swinging all-American boy thought, I must confess, wasn’t vocalist Jay Ferguson. where can I hear her single, but Andes and Ferguson quit how can I get to meet her. Spirit first, to form their re­ The caption informed me that markably lame all-American, flat- she was from Detroit, that her out rock and roll band, Jo Jo hit single was a foregone conclu­ Gunne. California disappeared. sion and that she was being Cassidy and Locke formed a new managed by the redoubtable Spirit, with a couple of auys Chas Chandler. My carnal dreams called the Staehely Brothers, faded. It looked as though the and even made an album. A lady was too well protected to second new Spirit then manifest­ hobnob with the dopeflends of ed Itself, this time a somewhat the town. Despite the leather shambling power trio featuring suit, I dismissed her from my Cassidy and an apparently brain­ mind. damaged Randy California. This The next time I came across unit toured here earlier in the Suzi was on Top of the Pops. year and are also threatening There she was with this punk to make new Spirit albums. In back-up band in black outfits TRAFFIC-ON THE ROAD

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'Inside, outside, where have I been? Out o f m y brain on the 5.15’ 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 of 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 of 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 of Pete Townshend. There are so many strands Ethiopia. Upon his accession in magnificent, as is the 30-minute had a definite jazzniks-jamming- worthy of discussion. ‘Punk and 1930, the Rastafarian Movement the Godfather’ takes up where ‘Grounation’. This latter, Ossie with-Bonnie flavour, its high- was born in Jamaica out of the frothing a frenzy on bongoes, is points were two of her own songs T om m y left off. The vicious ‘message’ o f Marcus Garvey, a circle of audience and performer, a hotch-potch of traditional folk —the accoustic ballad ‘Nothing movement instilling the rich and Rasta tunes, many of which Seems To Matter' and ‘You Told trapped in each other's need/ imagery of the New Testament conception of the opposite num­ have been adapted to Reggae Me Baby’, where she cut loose revelations and much of the hits (the Ethiopian’s ‘Selah’ and with a rocking sixpiece band. ber. ‘Bell Boy', with Keith Moon lament and prophesy of the Old on vocals, in part; a simple Gigingri’s ‘Zioniah’). A re-working This time producer John Hall Testament, as in Psalm 137: 'By of ‘Oh Carolina’—the mid-sixties has done the obvious thing by evocation of the off-duty Mod, the rivers of Babylon, yea, we suffering, ‘always at someone’s disco rave cut some 12 years ago creating a recognisable group wept, when we remembered bleedin' ’eel’, other songs which by The Folks Bros backed by the sound on seven of the ten tracks, Zion’. evoke the whole world of the Count Ossie Afro-Combo, is also centred round bass, drums, Bill Adherents, living a simple featured. frustrated, alienated and always Payne’s piano and his own electric mountain existence and preach­ searching young, just ten years I cannot see this masterwork guitar. The lady sings the blues, ing a ‘God in man and man ago. ‘I don’t suppose you remem­ appealing to the bland ears and tender ballads, Mose Allison, within love' doctrine, have be­ ber me, but I used to follow you butterfly minds of the New saucy calypsos and even whoop- come a Jamaican legend, due back in sixty three’ sings Jimmy, Decadent, whose notions of it-up trad numbers, but is at her mainly to their more sensational and it all comes flooding back. Jamaican culture are limited to best on a group of tunes by such traits—long, wild hair, colourful But the music, essentially the bus conductor or ‘What Soul’, underexposed young American variations on the basic Who riffs, clothes and their sacramental the party showpiece. But I love it songwriters as Jackson Browne, regard for marijuana. Their and my heart goes out. embellished with Moog, violin and Joel Zoss and Eric Kaz. Browne’s ‘Back to Africa' banner has won Penny Reel. horns, isn’t really what makes ‘I Thought I Was A Child’ reveals them the hearts of Jamaican Quadrophenia so impressive a him again as the most succinct youth, frustrated by the iniqui­ work. It is its undeniable status and characteristic song-smith ties of white society. Their music, TAKIN MY TIME since Tim Hardin, and Bonnie is as a social document that grabs primitive of rhythm and com­ Bonnie Raitt (Warner Bros) the listener. The anonymous the best possible advertisement plex of variety, has given the liner story breaks the normally for him. She also illustrates that island a national sound—Reggae. Bonnie Raitt’s voice is that rarity The material does not always accepted schizoid level of crazi­ Not that this beautiful album, in rock: a sound which thrills the show her to best advantage and ness, replacing a two-way split a compressed expression of the ear and gladdens the heart. She the production contains a few with a four-way improvement. Rastafarian cult, is Reggae. It is took a while to sink in, mostly, minor flaws of taste, particularly Jimmy tries to come to terms tribal music, offset with per­ I guess, because I never expected the horn and vocal arrangements with life—it is up to the individ­ cussion, gleaming with emotive to hear a white girl sing with such and some curiously geriatric harp ual to decide how far he’s zeal. There are traces of ’50s soul and flair. She reminded me by Taj Mahal. It’s problematic, successful. black jazz and Pocomanic gospel, of Van Morrison. since she is so brilliant, that it As to the success of the but the whole is the ecstasy of On this third album she sounds must be hard to assemble a group whole album, there’s no prob­ resurgent spirit overcoming more relaxed and confident than lems for the Who there. But I bet good enough to back her. Maybe suffering; indignities of the ever, phrasing with sweet muscula­ the poor sods are dreading four the Allman Brothers could carry body, darkness of the soul. There rity and generally being every bit years of playing this one on the it, and capture the exact blend are uncultured, but not illiterate, as devastating as I expect her to road. of accuracy and spontaneity poems of affirmation from be. She has occupied a central Jonathon Green. which turns a good album into Joseph Ruglass and a 15-minute place in my affections for almost a masterpiece. narration to chanting steel band a year now and, coming from An authoritative producer GROUNATION accompaniment from Brother someone who has had a different should be able to make her next Count Ossie & The Mystic Sam Clayton, who is also credit­ favourite girl singer every three album into a landmark on the Revelation of Rastafari ed with the exquisite ‘Ethopian weeks since he first heard Connie scale of M oondance or Gasoline (3-album set, Ashant, £4.99) Serenade’ (source of an un­ Francis bounce through Stupid Alley. Really. You better mentionable Byron Lee pop/ Cupid, that’s some recommenda­ believe it. Bonnie Raitt is the Rasta Fari was the uncrowned Reggae hit). tion. Though the instrumental girl singer of the Seventies. name of Haile Selassie I of The traditional ‘So Long’ is work on her last LP Give It Up Myles Palmer. C/iunc/er/RICHARD NEVILLE Telex from Australia... This apocalyptic missive from our re-patriated founder was dictated at speed and staggering cost over trans continental telephone from Melbourne, Australia. As usual, Richard had missed his deadline, and nothing has really changed except the scenery...

A famous Australian opera singer, the perpe­ community. There are now boycotts on const­ the system as irrelevant as possible by setting trator of Peach Melba, was forever announcing ruction projects worth three thousand million out upon one’s own search for inner tranquil­ her absolutely final last stage appearance. Oz Australian dollars and developers are growing ity, which can involve drugs, music, sacred carries on in the same tradition, and I wonder angry. As I write, all sorts of radicals, from old texts, meditation, hitting the road, guru just who is laughing all the way to what bank. time individual layabouts to gutsy resident hunting, body disciplines, brown rice and so (At the rates you 're charging for feature action unions, have united with the builders on until one can ultimately squeeze the trigger articles these days, Richard, I should think it and are brazenly battling with police in the on a profound personal mystical experience. is most likely the Bank o f New South Wales streets. In an extraordinary and fertile alliance Of these paths, we suppose many of us -Ed). But Felix is almost psychotically of libertarian politics and union muscle, hard stagger along one, lose our way, drift awhile, persuasive and smilingly promised during a hats and longhairs have seized the initiative. discover another, meander some more, play green milkshake a great issue, folks. So good But this is only a few acres among millions. some old time dance music, truck truck truck evening, how are you, goodbye. Along the beautiful North Coast the tower along yet another trail which is ill lit, deceptive­ This dispatch comes from Melbourne blocks march to the Pacific Ocean. The mayor ly charted and probably around the bend. amidst the rigours of a weekly newspaper of Surfers’ Paradise, in replying to observations We hereby declare that the 19th century schedule. I don’t know how long I’ll stick it, that speculators’ eyesores block the sun from pseudo scientific working model of the world, but strangely I’ve been enjoying bringing it all bathers, claimed seriously that it was a victory the mainstay of socialist theory, became fully back home. No doubt this delirium will wear in the fight against skin cancer. The newspapers obsolete in 1945 when J Presper Eckert Jnr off in ten more minutes, but coming back to are awash with huge, glamourised landscapes and John B Mauchly unveiled ENIAC at the Australia, I am stunned by its high voltage of real estate, beckoning irresistibly to those University of Pennsylvania to reveal the world’s exuberance and almost bullying aura of nation­ with a mania for owning their own backyard. first digital computer based on electrqnic al self-confidence. Proud Aussie faces peer A lifetime of mortgages for a quarter acre of impulses. From that pioment the West began from daily papers with captions announcing nowhere. its blind climb to the brink of plenitude, ror et more indigenous inventions: a chemist And behind many a suntanned Bazza’s the first time in history it became possible to nds a flu vaccine, a schoolboy produces a smile lies a valium prescription, the most conceive a rational future of the world pre­ pocket measuring device of utter precision and popular pacifier in Australia. After dark, the mised on the abolition of scarcity. The reign simplicity, a backyard mechanic designs an road that winds through the beaches of Sydney of the work ethic is over. Today’s revolutionary engine that’s said to be better than Wankel’s. is lit mainly by the displays of all-night demand is full unemployment, for those who People everywhere seem aglow with ideas chemists. Australians gobble down drugs even want it. The right to work becomes the right and radiant with relentless energy. Especially if they don’t make you high. ‘We have the most to hang loose. the State politicians, whose daily cabaret of expensive urine in the world’, commented a IN AUSTRALIA IN 1973, ANYONE WHO dishonesty and fraud makes the Nixon follies medical professor on the local lust for vitamin WORKS IS EITHER A FOOL, OPPRESSED seem like a sideshow at the wrong end of a tablets. There is too much to tell and I haven’t OR BELIEVES IN THEIR JOB . . . telescope. It’s old time Chicago without begun. Elliott Ness. The disclosure of a State More important than another national Isn’t OM all you need? Premier’s enormous stock holding in a develop­ profile, thislast Oz picture show should con­ NO. But some of the best minds of our genera­ ment company doesn’t bring a blush here, tain the seeds of continuing enterprise. In a tion are coming up with ways to explore the much less a resignation. When the President of way, Oz has come full circle, and yet it contin­ universe of inner self and we remain open a prominent building society was discovered ues in myriad tributaries, with Felix fiddling minded, indeed excited, by the new Skylabs stashing away bread, the New South Wales with the frontiers of graphic art, not to of the Psyche. Quick to ridicule the prevailing Premier cited the gentleman’s war record and mention countless other streams of communi­ spiritual hunger are intellectuals, their own the matter was dropped. The underground cators whose origins are linked with the spirit numbed by years of immersion in the paper Digger reprints copies of search warrants butterfly years of Oz. expedient doctrines of empiricism, rationality left by the cops during a drug raid. They were The first issue of The Living Daylights, and objectivity. Ironically, the most influential all blank, except for an obliging JP’s signature named after a forthcoming novel by my sister, contemporary pioneers of the new mysticism on each one. A mild inquiry pun. (two plugs in one sentence, the man's insatiable are all defectors from the shrine of academic But at least it’s an inquiry, and that’s what's -Ed) was published on October 16th in Mel­ methodology-Carlos Castaneda, John C Lilly, different about coming back to Australia. It’s bourne. It sold like the proverbial School Kids Richard Alpert and poor mad Timothy Leary. waking up. This Rip Van Winkle of a conti­ Oz. The second issue, out last week (my time), However unpalatable it may seem to the nent, dozing serenely in the Antipodes for 23 outstrips its 46,000 run by the second day. classic mind, the fact is this. Since the mid 60s, years, more or less given up as a deadhead So who knows? Somebody outback is looking hundreds and thousands of intelligent, curious, redneck by the rest of the world, suddenly one for something, even if it doesn’t turn out to be sensitive young people in the Western world day gets up and dances on the coffin of the The Living Daylights. As a gesture to the future, have tripped out on LSD and/or other hallucin­ defeated Liberal Party. Foreign policy attitudes and to let loyal Oz veterans catch a glimpse of ogenic drugs. A proportion of these people somersault, Trade Unions achieve sanctity, the continuing saga, printed below are frag­ (who knows how many?) have testified to draft dodgers are set free and the Last Tango is ments from the editorial of TLD No.l: experiencing a profound mystical phenomenon, danced all night. which drives them to a calm frenzy of spiritual After seven years’ absence, there are slicker Hi6f6 must be some W3y outs here exploration, often altering their whole way of rhythms and higher expectations. Standards Put crudely, there are three choices available. life and personality, sometimes sending them a have improved, even if the inspiration is often ONE: Recognise the system for what it is and bit loco, sometimes really cooling them out, plagiarism disguised by Strine. There is still a join it. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may to and always leaving them aching for more . . . materialist rampage-Sydney is a skyline of build a fortress of waterbeds, weekenders and But all explorations must be bound by a builders’ cranes and glistening Insurance quadraphonic swimming pools. CHOICE TWO: matrix of social realities and we look for a companies. But the people are beginning to Kickback. This can mean taking to the streets, fusion of psychic sailors and swashbuckling rub sleep from their eyes. While the National mastering dates they didn’t teach you at school, politicos to contribute to creating a vision of Trust tut-tuts about preserving heritages, it attending meetings, immersing yourself in the tomorrow, as well as ftirnlshing the tools to took the chesty bronzed builders' labourers to class struggle and backing whichever radical execute its occurrence.. As we said, give Marx step in and stop the bastards. The builders political organisation seems most likely to a joint and ask Buddha what he’s going to tell have imposed green bans' on development succeed without tiring. CHOICE THREE: and the tree executioners.,, projects they consider detrimental to the this is bowling ’em over like ninepins. Render See ya next last issue of Oz . . .

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Just as stereo, in the hands o f innovative rock music­ rock is quad innovative a f o of of hands creation the potential in to the but stereo, as effect, Just re-creation to devastating exciting. itted possibly m com and new just not you’re if Albert Hall to exploring sound separation, so too could quadro­ could too so separation, sound exploring to Hall Albert hand, other the On the dwarf is ambiance. do to recorded trys the quad with hall that of concert what effect and echo and this out of a hifi was to have two more speakers at the back of of back the at get to speakers more decided, two was it have to way, was hall. best hifi room. the a a the of of and back out the this there, being from actually reverberation and echo of bit little It’s this that creates the feeling of presence, the feeling of of feeling the presence, of feeling the creates that this It’s ground. new breaking again they’re ’, system phonic was the recreation of the the of recreation the was pre-amplifier There are essentially four parts to any reproducing system: system: reproducing any to parts four essentially are There But does—as the num erous blurbs in the sound magazines magazines sound the in blurbs erous num the does—as But Of course it doesn’t really work: any room has its own size size own its has room any work: really doesn’t it course Of The original idea behind the development of quadrophonics quadrophonics of development the behind idea original The programme source programme which controls and adjusts the signal from the the from signal the adjusts and controls which speakers. (tape, disc or tuner), the control unit unit control the tuner), or disc (tape, ambiance power amplifier power With quadrophonic, however, however, quadrophonic, With of the concert h all-th e e all-th h concert the of so that it is strong strong is it that so In addition, as it’s extremely difficult to store four channels But all three systems have their faults, some of which are of sound on a record, quadrophonic also needs a decoder. At detailed in the following chart. The biggest trouble with the the moment there are three main systems of decoding being phase shift systems occurs when a quadrophonic record is plugged by three separate groups of companies. Two of them played on a stereo or mono system; phase shift has a habit work by reproducing signals contained in the existing stereo of occasionally losing an instrument or a voice altogether. groove a little out-of-phase. Out-of-phase is a bit like fucking Discrete (CD-4) is fine on this score, but what you’re asking of with somebody you don’t know too well—occasionally you’re black plastic and stylii is that they cope with wiggles three pushing and they’re pulling, or they’re pushing and you’re times as fast as the present limit (20,000 wiggles per second). pulling. Either way you’re out of rhythm. Normally on a If you think of how quickly records get worn and how quickly stereo when one of the speakers is alternately going whoosh delicate wiggles-the top notes-get knocked off, you’ll realise while the other is going woof, you miss a lot of sound. But that a record which has 60,000 per second isn’t going to last with a phase shift system, the decoder uses the fact that the too long. But there’s an even bigger problem with CD-4: as the signals are deliberately recorded out-of-phase to generate an­ decoder unit is the equivalent of two separate radio tuners, other signal, or pair of signals, to be fed to the two rear loud­ speakers. SYSTEM WHAT KIND WHAT’S GOOD W H A TS BAD WHO MAKES WHO HAS The third system—the CD-4—is more complicated. Stereo IS IT? ABOUT IT? ABOUT IT? EQUIPM ENT RECO RD S happens because each side of a record groove has a different FO R IT? FO R IT? wiggle and the stylus tracks in two different directions giving QS phase shift It’s the one that The signals Sansui, Sony*, Pye most of the manu­ could be more Pioneer, two signals. What the CD-4 system does is to put two signals facturers rate. separated. N ational*. on each side of the record groove. This is done by using the Some bits dis­ appear in same process as is used to put two signals into stereo radio: the m ono. front and rear signals are added together, making the main SQ phase shift Currently the The signals Sony*, Pioneer, CBS, EMI wiggles; then the front is subtracted from the rear and slotted front runner, in could be more National*, terms of record separated. Rotel, Trio. into the groove, but at twice the frequency. This system uses sales. Bits disappear a multiple decoder-not the same as an SQ or QS decoder- in mono play­ back. which takes the two signals and then mixes them to the follow­ CD-4 discrete The fo u r D ecoder is JVC. Sony*, RCA ing recipe: added signal (L+R) plus subtracted signal (L-R) channels are virtually the National* which means the two R’s cancel out to give L (at twice the clearly separa­ same as two ted on the radio tuners, strength); added signal (L+R) plus subtracted signal ‘reversed record. and about as positive to negative’ (-L+R) which means the two cancel out expensive. to give R (at twice the strength). Phew! * Three-in-one decoder available. 66 Diagram by Mike Moore. system I recom m ended in the March 1973 issue of of issue 1973 March the in ended m recom I system on records and less inclination to spend all your tim e in your your in e tim spend your all to spend money to extra o more tw means inclination the less of That and cost £100. the records on with under even for speakers, quadrophonic, have can much signal as the front, you need not pay as much for them. for much as pay not need you front. the front, as the detail as signal much so much in out spread be on’t w sound the rear speakers too. The only difference is that the rear rear the that is difference only packed The on too. definition, records speakers by rear are, a the of system SQ quadrophonic out get the CBS/EMI since you and QS ore, notes Pye the Furtherm out-of-phase of kind synthesizer. the rock, it’s if with out-of-phase inform ation, you’ll get all that coming from from coming that all get you’ll ation, inform out-of-phase with or, music, the classical live it’s either if hall mostly is concert which the f sound o signal bient out-of-phase am the all up pick effect. space-between-the-speakers quadrophonic is still only two dimensional (there’s no up and and up no ation). 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Beverley House, Foxgrove Avenue Beckenham, Kent BR3 2AZ, 01 658 3880 / 6340 CN? 1 (n° v ROY BUCHANAN ERIC CLAPTON MICK TAYLOR B. B. KING Bom on plantation MiiaiMippi Session guitar plsyer mid 'fifties fur Born March 30th, 1945 Fint group Born 17th January. 194*. First Delta, 19 1} Muiically influenced Dal* Hawkins. Single* "Suxic Q", Th* Rooiter*. Neat Th* Yirdhird* group The Godiwirk Ken Hensley, by Uncle, Diango Reinhardt, 'Robert Jr.' Lockwood. Fint tana pro­ "M y Ha he" Next maiur band Bub 19*3 ioined John Mayall'* Blues- Lee Ker.lake of Uriah Heep. 1967 fessionally St. John Go*pel Singers l.uman. Higseti hit "L rl'a Think breaker* 19*7 Eric. Jack Bruce, replaced Peter Green John Mayall1* Moved Memphis 1947. 1949 lame About Living" Karly 'rixiie* Ginger Baker form Cream. Dis- band. On June tjth , 19*9. replaced a* linger and dilc iockey Radio worked with Bonnie Hawkin* A th* banded 1969 Birth of Blind Faith. Brian Jone* Rolling Stone*. WDIA. 1949 Ant recording* Bullet and Ram label*. "Three O'Clock Hawka and Freddie (.annon. Joined On* L P "Blind Faith" f Featured on "Let It Bleed", "Get Bluet" Ant hit entered R A B legendary band Monkey Men. Delaney A Bonnie Delaney Hram- Yer Ya Ya1* Out", “ Sticky Finger*", chart* 1951. Fint touring bandt953. Faded into virtual ubacurity. lett produced "Erie Clapton" 1970. "Exile on Mam Street". Alto Known a* 'King of the Bluet' National Fdocaiional Television featured "Looking Back", "Thru Due guitar ttyle, impaitioned 1970 formed Derek and yataMtto tinging—‘..... inAuenced■- --- gentre--—J Aim. Shortly afterward*, penuaded Dominoe*. Life ol recluse. unfor­ Th* Year*", "Back To Th* Root*". 1 of mutician*. One of mayor gettable convert January 13th, 1973- Appeared Mike Oldfield * "Tubular inapiraliom British 'R A B' revival Rainbow Theatre. Belli". of sixties. 19** signed ABC Dunhlll. M tro o #- L m n tg PwrooiKiiny! i STRATFORD PL. LONDON W ■ 1 STRATFORD PL. LONDON W ■ STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. ■ STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. «

DUANE ALLMAN j o h n M cLa u g h l i n JAN AKKERMAN LINK WRAY Duane Allman born 1946 Grew up with brother Gregg, Naahvtlle, Born Yorkshire. England 194a. Bom Amsterdam, December 194*. Recording debut in 195I. Track Fint record wiih Allman Joy*. Began play violin, piano tge seven. Musical career began with accor­ Single "Spoonful" mid italic*. Next At eleven took up guitar. lati- dion, age 3. Guitar six. At school in year* ahead of ij* time, "Rumble11. group Hour Gian Two album*, one inAuenced after hearing Diango Dutch rhythm A bluet band*. On Archie Bleyer1* Cadence label. released in England, "Hour Glaai". Reinhardt, Tal Farlow. “ ScholAihip Amsterdam Music Sen Ion man with Wilton Pickett, Left tchool filter AtKessel Lyceum. Studied guitar 5 yean. Track1* futuristic outlook. Uted a Clarence Carter, Boaz Scaggt, •ixteen played local iau group*. Formed Johnny A The Cellar tremelo activated by turning a knob Aretha Franklin 19*9 Allman In Variou* rhythm n'bluc* band*, Rocker* The Hunter* 1946 until Brother* Band bom. Two LP1*. notably Graham Bond Organisation, 1968 and then Brain box Joined on hit Premier amplifier Moved "Th* Allman Brother* Band". Herbie Gome* A the Night-Time*, Focut. "In and Out of Focus" around a number of record Com­ "I Id* wild South". Two double one of Brian Auger1* bsnds Dave released 1971. "Moving Wave* 11 LP1*. "The A)It * - Holland recommended to Tony late 1971. Jan Akkerman solo panies, Epic and Swan. Signed by At Fill William*. 19 *1 emigrated to USA. album* rcleaied, “ ProAle", play* Poiydor in 197!. Releated two Played with Lifetime, Mile* Devi*. lute and guitar, recorded before 1970 Artt solo album. 1971. formed Focut. Earlier album "Guitar For album*. "Link W ray", "Be What **-wlvi*hnu Orchestra Sale". You Want To" 1 roirooih iih 1 9 £?iyooi STRATFORD PL. LONDON W ■ STRATFORD PL. LONDON W ■ 1 STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. ■

ALBERT KINO HARVEY MANDEL LESLIE HARVEY PETE TOWNSHEND Born Detroit March n th, 1945. Formative musical year* Chicago. Leslie Harvey born Glasgow. Fint Bom Indianola, Mtstittippl 1914 Fint guitar at sixteen. Play with recorded work on Alex Harvey LP, _____ to the bluet men, like Buddy Guy. Teamed “ The Blue*11, recorded Germany Who. Several hit single*. Rest of up Barry Goldberg, Charlie Musscl- the group: Roger Daltrey, John whne. Eddie Hoh. Several album* 1964. Joined his brother1* band until Entwtitle. Keith Moon. Album for Buddah in 194* and 1949. 1969 formation of Stone the Crows 1969. releases: "M y Generation", “ A "Righteou*", "Game* Guitar* Slone the Crow* made music for Quiet One” , 1,The Who Sell Out". Bobbin Company 10*9 1961 Ant P it/ 1. Joined Canned Heat. Played three yean. Untimely death by "Tom m y", “ Live at Leeds". Com­ hit, "Dont1 Throw Your Love On . British tour 1970. i97« pilation of hita, “ Meaty, Beaty, Big Me So Strong". Contract “ — joined John Mtyall band. Signed as electrocution Swansea May 1971. and Bouncy", "Who1* Next". Pete Janu* Records *olo artist. Two Stone the Crow* made four LP1* Townshend solo album, "Who Record* 1964. - - . .------„— album* released "Babby Batter- featuring Leslie Harvey. “ Slone the Came Fin t". Performance of Gradually turned into blue* 1970, "Th* Snake" 197a. Released Crows", "Ode to John Law", "Tommy11, Rainbow Theatre. All favourite black and white audience*. 1971 "Gett Off in Chicago". Most star cast, with Rod Stewart, Ringo Developed sharper, astringent sound recent album "Fiddler On The "Teenage Licks11, "t'-ominuous Per- Starr, Richard Harris, Stevie Win- wood, Richie Havens, Maggie Bell.

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SHUGGIE OTIS JIMI HENDRIX FREDDY KING PHBom November 30th, 1953 Son of Bom 1943. Played in Little Longview, Texas, 1934. Johnny Otis. ("Mb. He's Making Richard's band 1944 spotted by Playing guitar since age ten. Moved Eve* at Me", "Willie And The Chas Chandler. Brought Hendrix to to Chicago. Involvedwith Magic Sam. band, for two and 1 Hand Jive". Critically acclaimed England Immediate sensation. The Syl Johnson. Recorded "Country albums "Cold Shot11, "Live At limi ‘ “ ...... left for Hamburg. Returned Monterey" "Pioneers of Rock, Vol. Boy" 1936. Discovered 1960 by formed Taste, came to E 3” .) Played on these albums. First Pop Festival 1947. Albums; “ Are Federal A A R man Sonny Thomp­ 1949. Four albums "Taste” 1969. [ recognition when he recorded “ Cold You Experienced", "Axis: Bold As son. First session "Have You Ever "On The Boards", "Live Tsste" A Shor" in 1968. Album with Al Love." "Electric Ladyland", Loved A Woman". "Hideaway" hit "Live at the Isle of Wight". 1970. 4 K00per, "Kooper Session” "Young "Smash Hits". 1970. Billy Cox 1071 formed group with Gerry in 1961. Instrumentals sold hmvily McAvoy, Wilgar Campbell. Three § Man Of The Year" award Leonard replaced Redding; Bubby Miles until 19*3. Signed King 1964. Feather's L.A. Time* column. displaced Mitchell. "Band of Gyp­ albums “ Rory Gallagher" 1971, Contract with Epic Records. First sy*'1. Pop Festival, Isle of Wight. Joined Cotillion 1968. Shortlived “ Deuce1 j "Live! In Europe11 1071. album "Here Comes Shuttle Otis" September ilth , 1970, found dead. Joined Shelter Wilgar Campbell replaced by Rod in 1970. Shuggie is abbreviation of Since death, number of albums De'Ath. Lou Martin on keyboards, 'Sugar1. both from Killing Floor. Two" Hgrigt__fnd "Tattoos1. h u m b-li in 153 £ STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. j) 1 STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. ■ 1 STRATFORD PL. LONDON W. ■