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Biography. I was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, February 21, 1943, and educated at Cirencester Grammar School. I did four years at Gloucestershire College of Art from 1959 until 1963: two years in Stroud and two in Cheltenham, something I’ve covered in my In The Sixties. In Stroud I lived with three other artists in a classic ‘beatnik ...
Barry Miles cofounded International Times, Europe’s first underground newspaper, in 1966. In 1968, he was the label manager of Zapple, the Beatles’ experimental record label. He has written many books on the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1989), The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 (Grove, 2000), and Call Me Burroughs: A ...
by Silvia Galotti, Manuscripts Cataloguer. Key counterculture figure, bookshop manager, editor, publisher, author, music journalist, archivist, biographer: all of this, and more, is Barry Miles, or just ‘Miles’, as he is better known. His archive, acquired by the British Library in 2013 and recently catalogued, is a rich and unique source ...
London: Grove-Atlantic, 2009. London Calling is the story of the counter-culture from the end of the Second World War until the end of the century, with the emphasis of those who were really living it.If the status quo is not challenged then societies and cities fall into stasis. It is those people who break the rules, and sometimes the law, that are at the creative heart of society.
20 de nov. de 2017 · Barry Miles’ name seems to pop up everywhere when you look back on Beat history. He’s written books on Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg, as well as a wonderful book on the Beat Hotel in Paris. But his work isn’t just confined to Beat history – it extends further into the wider counterculture of that era. […]
Barry Miles, né en 1943 à Cirencester en Angleterre, est un auteur et homme d'affaires britannique. Dans les années 1960 , il était un personnage important du milieu underground londonien, et a aidé au lancement du journal The International Times .
Barry Miles (Cirencester, 1943) è uno scrittore inglese, noto per la sua partecipazione e i suoi scritti sull'underground a Londra negli anni sessanta.Numerosi sono i suoi libri e sue opere sono regolarmente apparse anche in giornali di sinistra come The Guardian.. Nel 1960 è stato co-proprietario della Indica Gallery e ha contribuito alla nascita del periodico indipendente International Times
