INTERNATIONAL TIMES ARCHIVE
1966
- 2005
1966-7: Published by Lovebooks
Ltd. from: 102 Southampton Row, London.
Editor: Tom McGrath; Assistant
Editor: David Zane Mairowitz
Includes all half-issues, colour variants and flyers as
listed.
October 1966: mimeographed
flyer for IT launch party at London’s Roundhouse with the unusual annotation
IT/5 giving details and ticket information.
it1 Oct
14-27 1966 1s: Death
of Andre Breton –obituary by Jean-Jaques Lebel; Yoko Ono’s ‘Unfinished
Paintings and Objects’ notice for show at Indica Gallery, 102 Southampton Row,
where she met John Lennon etc; Adrian Mitchell poem- ‘Make or Break’ written
for Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of US, a play about Vietnam with
Glenda Jackson; Report on the Warsaw International Festival of Music &
portrait of Penderecki; Bob Cobbing’s Group
H exhibition; Destruction In Art Symposium (DIAS); review of ‘She’
–ninety-foot-long woman built by Nikki de Saint Phslle, Jean Tinguely and Olof
Ultvedt in the Stockholm Museum of modern Art; for Indica Gallery; Jeff Nuttall
cartoon; Simon Vinkenoog on Provo in Amsterdam; report on Timothy Leary’s
spiritual stage show from Bubu in New York; Peter Asher’s pop column; LSD; Dope
prices; ‘What’s Happening’ listings
reveal ‘Pink Floyd Mix Media Show’ at
LondonFree School,
All Saints Hall / Bert Jansch at St Pancras Town Hall; Roland Kirk at Ronnie
Scott’s; Karma boutique opens...
it2 Oct 31 –Nov 13 1966: Yoko Ono; Report on the IT launch party at The Roundhouse Pink Floyd / Soft Machine/Paul McCartney Ezra Pound’s unpublished wartime broadcasts on Radio Rome; The Living Theatre’s Frankenstein script; William Burroughs’ film script Towers Open Fire; Robert Fraser Gallery; Peter Brook, Charles Marowitz, Morton Feldman, Man of Grass - George Andrews, Interpot Report No 3, Underground Film Festival Supplement - run-down of underground movies of the time including Dutch Provo movies and London Film Makers Co-Op; Andrew Meyer - US filmmaker; Kim Fowley - Portrait of a Freak; Censorship and/or Pornography; cartoon strip by Jeff Nuttall (calls himself Sodall here), Berlin Living Theatre, Stockholm's Fylkingen,
,
it3 Nov 14-27 1966:
William Burroughs –The Invisible
Generation 1; Ray Durgnat; article by Morton Feldman; American War crimes
in Vietnam by Bertrand Russell –cc
it4 No 28th – Dec 1966: Mastheads by Marijke Koger despite the
constraints of letterpress, IT was turning psychedelic.....; Dick Gregory
interview; Alexander Trocchi and Sigma; anti-Vietnam demos; happenings in Amsterdam, alternative Sweden, Denmark, Norway, India, Rome, New York,
London; Censorship; Paul
Butterfield Blues
Band, Beatniks of Berlin; Takis at the Indica, reviews of Albert Ayler, Farenheit 451, guide to Soho strip clubs; cartoon
strip: Jeff Nuttall (calling himself Jeff Farkall) in this one) -12pp
it5 Dec 1966: Message to the
Queen;
it 5.5 –Rare Michael
English issue, ‘cut-out word machine poster’; solvent on white signed...etc;
William Burroughs –The Invisible
Generation *cc
1967:
it6 16-29 January 1967: Burroughs;
Norman Mailer on Vietnam War ; long interview by MILES (Murphy) with Paul
McCartney.
it7 Jan 30th-Feb 12th 1967:’ Arrest the Home Secretary’, 'Hendrix
is here to Stay'; UFO
underground event; and UFO's -
''Flying saucers as a
portent of the revelations which will attend the opening of the Aquarian age” –John Michell; South
Africa; Moscow; Alan Ginsberg; Vietnam; Mushroom (Danish Music scene); Hare Krishna, Censorship; Interpot; John Wilcocks- Other Scenes; Munich Newsletter, A Liverpool story
by Brian Patten; Traverse Theatre Company.
it8 Feb 13th-Feb 26th 1967: Pete Townsend interview - two pages; Jeff Nuttall comic strip; report on race in Cuba; Alan Ginsberg feature 'Reflections on the Mantra'; Gary Sender feature 'Buddhism and the Coming Revolution'; The Diggers Mystique; Censorship; “where the new 'underground' is going and what its priorities should be......” newly developing eastern inspired counter-culture art….. 16pp
it9 Feb27-Mar 12th
1967:
John Wilcock’s – Other Scenes;
Jean Paul Sartre; LA Provosmoke; P.J. Proby; The Living Theatre; Censorship;
Tuli Kupferberg – 16 pages.
it10 Mar 13-26 1967: Police raid on Indica Books & IT; Frank Zappa
interview and photo; Pink Floyd
versus Psychelphia; LBJ with smoking gun on back cover
it 10.5 Easter 1967: Emergency Broadside issue; red on mustard coloured
paper, with psychedelic artwork by Mike McInnery Double sided single A3 issued
partly to make money to cover the legal cost of Its first police raid and also
to give update on countering the police action. Paul McCartney (who donated
£500 to the relief fund); R.D. Laing
it 11
it 12
Editor: Jack Henry Moore
it13 May 19th-June 2nd 1967: / George
Harrison Interview; Announcement of
Monterey Pop Festival; ad for My
White Bicycle by Tomorrow / The Doors, Da
Capo; Amsterdam Provos; Pink Floyd; identifying drug use.....16 pp
it14 June 2 – “All Human
Life For Sale”;
Sgt Pepper's full page Ad; Pink Floyd at UFO club; Michael X; Jimi
Hendrix article and pic; The Who by Mick Farren; Simon Vinkenoog.
It 14.5 –‘Summer Sadness for John Hopkins’ Hopkins’s Bust
half-issue; ‘Hapshash and the Coloured Coat’ poster by Michael English
it 14.75 poster by Sue Miles of flower springing from box
“Free Hoppy”
it15 June 16th 1967 :
“Free Hoppy”,– John Hopkins
imprisoned; Police raid IT, mags seized –ordered returned; Berlin riot Uprising
v Shah of Iran’s visit. Pink Floyd at UFO; Review of Andy Warhol's Chelsea
Girls; Good Vibrations club; Pot Smokers Alliance, anti-police squads; Jeff Nuttall as Jay Phundle; events in Sweden, reviews of underground movies including
Dali/Bunuel, Rene Claire, Man Ray –12pp
it15.25 mimeographed
flyer/ handbill issued at Hopkins’ arrest for possession of hash. Reprinted in
‘Watch Out Kids’
it16
June 30th-July 14th 1967: "IN THEIR HEARTS THEY KNOW WE'RE RIGHT (Your
Inactivity Put The Stones Inside) - PLAY IN THE PARKS YOU MUST...YOU CAN” Charles Lloyd; Interview with John Lee
Hooker; Miles report from NYC re. the East Village Scene and Ed Sanders/ Fugs /
Grateful Dead, Tompkins Park Square; Timothy
Leary in Millbrook; Exploding Galaxy; David Medela; “next week IT will
publish a half issue for the Rolling Stones; Letters: Pete Fryer / Suzie Creamcheese ; Running Man
Books; Jeff Nuttall strip; ‘CYN' - 'IT Girl' centre page pin-up (Coke can..) Middle East; Half-page ad for Indica Books; Letters from Anton Artaud to Anais Nin; Arthur Brown at UFO club; Social
Deviants at Happening 44 ad.
Published by? from: 22
Betterton Street, London WC2. Editor: Bill Levy
it17 July
28th-Aug 24th 1967: Original issue: “Time Is On Our
Side” Ginsberg cover Rolling Stones’ Bust; Interview with Michael Abdul Malik; Dialectics Of Liberation review of The People Show, UFO
Club; Exploding Galaxy and The Arts Lab; Kleptomania;
Yoko Ono – Bottom film. 16pp
it17 July 28th-Aug 24th
1967 Second edition 'colour reprint' in
green (15,000 first edition sold out)
it 18 Aug 31-Sep 13: William Burroughs; Zappa –Mothers of Invention libretto for Absolutely Free and the portrait which formed the basis for the 1960’s poster known as ‘Zappa on the Krappa’; Buckminster Fuller;/ Michael X; adverts for Oz Magazine, UFO.
it19 Oct
5th-20th 1967: Aleister Crowley – the proto-hippie; Alex Trocchi;
Leslie Fieder; LSD gene damage & acid report; Crazy World of Arthur Brown
ad; Jefferson Airplane ad, and Yoko Ono Lisson Gallery ad.
it20 Oct 27-Nov 9th 1967: “Consenting Adults –The IT Boys”;
UFO club dies; Ezra Pound’s wartime speeches; Arthur Brown; “How good are your orgasms? - magical love making”; Tom Paine; Living Theatre; People Show; New York 'Tribes Free Store & Day Glo
Paint'; interview with Arthur Brown; Exploding Galaxy; John Peel's Perfumed Garden; the trial of Michael X,; sexual-political intrigue in Sikkim; ads for Jefferson Airplane, Middle Earth, Kleptomania, Organic Arts Posters, Yoko Ono, Ron Geesin, Granny Takes
a Trip.
It21 Nov 17-30th 1967: “Kill All Blacks!”
it22 Dec15th-28 1967: Magical Mystery Tour full page ad /
Brion Gysin, Julian Beck and The Living
Theatre, John Peel’s Perfumed Garden
column, SOMA .
1968
it 22.5 New Year 1968: ‘Instant
Information poster – ‘Happy New Year Immortalise Yourself ’by Mal Dean ; –Theda
Bara IT logo
it23 Jan 5-19th 1968: Henry Irving (pornography).
it24 Jan 19th-Feb 1st 1968: Fritz Teufel;
Roy Lichenstein; Jeff Nuttall;
it 25 Feb 2-15, 1968. Green cover with Mushroom, 2/3 page Gilbert
Shelton cartoon; Article re. Leroi Jones incarceration in New Jersey; Tribe of
the Sacred Mushroom; Timothy Leary; John Cage and Captain Beefheart. cc
it26 Feb 16 - 29 1968: ‘appropriated’ International Situationist strip on cover;
Allen Ginsberg and the Maharishi, The Free University; Family Dog and Middle
Earth ads, J.G. Ballard’s poem- Why I
Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.
it27 March 8-21 1968:
Smokin' Mickey!,
Design for Positive Effectiveness -3d cover attempt???); French Cinema; the international
underground in Berlin, Finland, Sweden; De Stijl at the Camden Arts Centre,;Yugoslav Cinema; big ads for Fairport Convention and Incredible String Band, John Peel's Perfumed
Garden, Special Pop Supplement with A to Z of artists;, police raid Middle Earth; the Mary Finnigan bust story.............
it28 April 5-18 1968: Amsterdam Fantasio
& Paradiso; Berlin Commune News;
Chicago Yippies and the Democratis convention; Stockholm, phallic magicians
open fire at moon event; a guide to macrobiotic food; Rome – The first European
Festival with Pink Floyd, The Nice, Family, Fairport Convention; Yoga, Sex and
the Magic Mushroom; The Hyde Park Diggers; Perfumed
Garden column by John Peel.
it29 April 19 – May 2; Rudi Dutschke Interview; Victory
Thru Vegetables by Greg Sams – cc
it30 May 3-16 1968: It discovers
offset litho printing... Experimental layout consisting of a series of two page
spreads mapping out the alternative scene. Centre pages consist of a huge map
of the ‘three villages’ of Notting Hill – ‘Interzone’; Ads for Middle Earth,
Tintern Abbey (band) OZ, Incredible String Band – 12 pp
it31 May 17-30 1968: Co-ordinated
by John Hopkins; Sounds/Music Special: Grateful Dead and San Francisco
Free City; William Burroughs ’23 Skidoo Eristic Elite; Jefferson Airplane;
extended interview with Mick Jagger by
Miles, over three pages; news on Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Liverpool Scene, The
Byrds, Ocean (Swedish), Chris McGreggor. News of Release, Hyde Park Diggers, news from
Jail, tribal stirrings
around the country..
it32 May 31 June 13 1968: Paris Free issue! “Special Rush:
Paris Alt. Society Now. UK: 1/6, Paris:Free;” BIT Information Service; Tribe
Time –The Eternal Yoni; John Peel’s Perfumed
Garden; Michael X; German Art
*IT workers ad
hoc committee. Member of UPS.
Co-Ordination: Robert Tasher; Words:
Peter Stansill; Kip Gallagher; Images/Layout: Graham Keen; Business: Dave Hall;
Other activity (Board of Trustees.): Haynes/Moore/Henshaw/Miles/Levy/Samuel
it33 June 14-27:Front and rear page open into poster illustration-
“Flight of The Bethlehem Star: A Space Poem Revealed” by Michael English;
Aleister Crowley –The Golden Dawn; The Constant Flux – news from around the
world; Guerilla Pop by Mick Farren; article by Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine;
Who’s Afraid of Icarus? (asteroid); The Hindu Trinity; Tribe Time 2
Published by “IT Workers co-op”:
it34 June 28 –July 11th 1968: Final City – a feature from the San Francisco Oracle (one of the original underground newspapers); Hornsey
College of Art / London School of Economics student unrest; Reviews of the
United States of America (band), Mick Farren’s Social Deviants; Inter-Action’s
Ambiance lunch-hour theatre; Hermine Demoriane – Paris report; Mothers of
Invention; Small Faces; John Coltrane; Miles Davis; The Nice; SOMA and Legalise
Pot Rally in Hyde Park; Pyramid Perspectives; Copenhagen news –
it35 July 12-25th 1968: Black Panthers
and the trial of Huey P Newton; Revolutionary Politics in France; John
Osbourne; Letter from John Lennon; LSD; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; Salvador Dali; Nude Demos; Message of the
Pyramids; Politics of the Imagination; Midsummer Raga; J.LGoddard; Tribe Time..
Copyright IT. (Printing, Publishing & Promotions Ltd.)
it36 July 26 – Aug 8th
1968: Castro Cover; “Happy Birthday Revolution”; Digger energy; Head Quest -cc
it37 Aug 9-22 1968: Cover by
‘Cybernetic Serendipity’; Meher Baba; Matisse at the Hayward; Rasputin, Spooky
tooth, South Africa; Anti-Vietnam demos; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; Takis;Middle Earth’s Magical Mystery Tour; speed;
Goddard – cc 20pp
Published by Knullar (Printing, Publishing & Promotions) Ltd.
it38 Aug 23 – Sep 5 1968: Explanation that
although IT is still to be published by IT Workers’ Co-operative, the new
registered name of Its publisher is now Knullar, standing for Karmic Neo-Universal League for Liberty And
Reality.
Jesus Christ – Reward; poster cover; Police Theatre; pivotal letter
‘from an over 30’ by Geoffrey Ashe; -cc
it39 Sep 6-19th 1968: Jean Luc
Goddard interview; piece by RD Laing; Mexico City’68; The Doors, review and
pics; Butterfield Blues band and Grateful Dead; Family; James Taylor; Interview
with Ustad Vilayat Khan; Kicking Dope In Brum; Presidents and Pigs; Back page
ad for Apple –first four releases (Jacky Lomax, Black Dyke Mills Band, Hey
Jude); centre page poster –Juniors Eyes
it40 Sep 20-Oct 3 1968:” Underground Construction” - Emmanuel Petrakis; “Love and Fornication”,
3-part series –Theodore Faithfull (Marianne’s father..); Principal Edwards
Magic Theatre design centre spread; The Fugs; report from Melbourne; Australia;Jefferson Airplane; reviews of the Fugs; and the first 4
singles on Apple Records. "Black Power or Death" by Obi Egbuna
Published from 27 Endell Street WC2:
it41 Oct 4-17 1968: Norman Mailer
interview; Love & Censorship; Olympics of repression; Love and
Fornication" part 2 by Theodore Faithfull; John Peel's Perfumed Garden features Captain Beefheart
"Strictly Personal"; An article on the Poetry International Festival
by Mike Chapman; Also Simon Stable, Jo-Anne Kelly, Janis Joplin and Deep
Purple; Full page ads for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Tim
Buckley & David Ackles. Half page ads for Jethro Tull and Traffic
it42 Oct 18–31 1968: Cover: IT girl with Birthday cake (2nd
anniversary; variant covers - one
version is yellow and purple and one is in blue and orange); South Africa; The Birth of Autonome – a
report from Zurich; New York Trauma; review of Frank Zappa; Presidential
elections; feature: From Rock to Acid Rock; ads for Tiny Tim, Incredible String
Band, Phil Ochs; The Fugs
it43 Nov 1-14th 1968:
Third Ear Band; Alternative education; Workless Society; Revolution; Notting
Hill Tribe; 50 years of Feminism; Censorship, Animation in Film;
Electric Flag; Mike Cooper;
"The Workless Society" by Herber Lomas, "Compulsory
Mis-education" by Emmanuel Petrakis and "In the Reservation" by
Courtney Tulloch.
it44 Nov
15 – 28 1968: ‘Harmony’- 7 John
Lennon drawings; Grosvenor Square anti-Vietnam war demo –what went wrong?;
‘Magic music, nova music and pink’ – Acid Rock review; Generals in Greece; The
Yippies; Theatre of Change; (‘Christ would not be a stranger to you.’)
it45 Nov 29-Dec 12 1968 : Lennon/Ono Two Virgins ad; Herbert Macuse; Alternative Italy; Dr John; Captain Beefheart; Grateful Dead; Daevid Allen /Soft Machine; Beatles White Album reviewed; SF Sorrow; The Workless Society; Ralph McTell; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; Dury Lane Arts Lab split; London Film Festival; Was Hey Jude a message to Dylan......
it46 Dec 13 – 27 1968:
1969
it47 Jan 1-16th 1969: ‘Know
Yourself!’; Love and Socialism; Hells Angels; Naked In The New Age; The Social
Deviants; supergroup- Crosby, Stills and Nash; Ten Years After; A guide to
Police Searches; John Peel; Australia; South Africa; Spain; USA Lennon/Ono - Two Virgins ad
it48 Jan 17-30th 1969: Biafra
“–genocide as spectator sport”; Northern Ireland –The rocky Road to Derry;
Kinetic Art Middle Earth ad; Pot culture; Guyana; understanding America...
it49 Jan 31-Feb 13 1969: Satish Kumar’s
imaginary interview with Mahatma Gandhi; Buckminster Fuller; Aleister Crowley
and Sexual Magick; review of William Burroughs Naked Lunch trilogy; Art &
Society – Jeff Nuttall. Black Culture- White Culture- Chinese Culture; Legalise
Dope Campaign; Squatting; Steve Dwoskin’s Hot Nudes paintings; underground
scene in Sydney; alternative Brum –
it50 Feb 14 -27 1969: LSE riots;
Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia ; legal aspects of renting a home; Incredible
String Band, Tyrannosaurus Rex ads.
it51 Feb 28 –March 23 1969: Meher Baba; Paris and LSE riots; Lawrence Ferlinghetti
/Drawings of Laurel & Hardy under THC.
it52 March 14-27 1969
it53 Mar 28 - April 10 1969: Black
Power; cover illustration –Mal Dean; Rolling Stones; Hendrix 2- page interview with Jane de Mendelssohn;
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper; MC5 and John Peel's Perfumed Garden; Cum comics featuring Spiegal &
Sschliegal; Articles on Anguilla,
Genesis squat busted; "Swedes Mummify Underground as Acid Returns",
"It's all over on Haight Street" and "Road to Rahajamapoor"
by Michael Chapman. Also the Wonderful World of Waldo Womb; ads
for Janis Joplin, Colosseum, Family, Pete Brown and his Battered Ornaments,
Keef Hartley, Captain Beefheart and Pink Floyd; Hard Meat;
Music: Mark Williams
it54 April 11-24 1969 : Art Lab-otomy /
Emmett Grogan/ Berlin – The Politics of Acid; Country
Joe McDonald, Robert Plant / Led Zeppelin, Hard Meat, the Edgar Broughton Band
and Forest. John Peel's Perfumed Garden; Simon
Stable; Articles on ‘Head Light’ Light Shows and the Turquoise Pantomime.
it55: April 1969: (Says ‘1960’
on cover) The Nice/Full-page ad for Beatles ‘Get Back’; ’Sydney Scene;Camden Arts Festival; The Man from
Galactic Central –an overview of Scientology; H.PLovecraft (band) review.
it56 May 9-22 1969
it57 May 23 -12 1969
it58 June 13-28 1969: Latin America – military takeover; Peoples Park,
Berkeley, California; Alex Trochi – Watch that gnome; The adventures of Jerry
Cornelius, cartoon strip based on Michael Moorcock; Frank Zappa versus the
Incredible Hulk; Pete Townsend on Tommy; King Crimson interview; The LSD of
Underground Rock; ‘Trudy’ – comic strip; Improve your Sex Life; ads for Oz,
East of Eden; Strawbs; Tyrannosaurus Rex.
it59 July 4-17th 1969: Interview with Mick Jagger; half- page ad
- Fairport Convention; full page-
Family plus articles on Sun Ra and Michael Moorcock. R.D.Laing.and Felix Scorpio discuss psychiatric treatments and the use of
psychogenic drugs; Revolution: The Method of Revelation; Full page ad for
Plastic Ono Band, "Give Peace a
Chance"; Edward’s Music commix;
it60 July 17-30 1969: Moon Landing: Moon IT cover by Mike McInnery; Brian
Jones obituary; Doors film; Stones In
Hyde Park
It61 Aug 1 -14th 1969: The reader as UFO;
It62 Aug 14 -28th 1969:
it63 Aug 29 1969- Sep 11 1969: Non-Space
Issue;’You Can’t Even Say What It Is..’ -
Interview with George Harrison; The Commune in St Ives; Frank Zappa
interview; Neil Young article; ad for Easy Rider; Third Ear Band - extended interview; Robert Fripp feature;
Lord Buckley; Bonzo Dog Band; The Nice- reviews.
it64 Sep 12-25th 1969 – ‘The Times
cover’ Apple Hare Krishna ad; Implosion/Coon
letters; Editorial - Are We? Are you? Is it? Directions for paper discussed.
Graphic of it girl in tears / Jerry
Cornelius - Moorcock
it65 Sep28-Oct 9 1969 Plug & Socket music issue; the main paper
published separately: Dave Arbus letter: Caroline Coon & Implosion; Graham
Bond ; 'Abbey Rd' Ad; ‘Bovver
issue...
it66* Oct 10th-23 1969:
Plus INSERT
-explaining take over and attempt at occupation of IT’s publisher Knullar-
written by both the 'International Times Lot’ and ‘London Street Commune Lot’';
Jane Arden interview ; SCUM; end to sexism; London Street Commune Ron Bailey;
Squatting...(Plug and Socket insert?) Arts Labs; Chicago
Six trial;
alternative psychiatry,
poems by Pete Brown, Julian Beck, Spike Hawkins, cartoons by Mal Dean, Violence in Britain; cartoon strip - Jerry Cornelius.
(International Free Press November 1969: – Counter- IT. One Issue published.)
it67 Nov 6-20th 1969: Post-take over attempt issue - editorials.../”To Be Attacked By The Enemy is Not A Bad Thing” / Launch of Middle Earth Records /John & Yoko Wedding Album full page ad...page of album reviews including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Love, Led Zeppelin, It's a Beautiful Day, Mighty Baby and Juicy Lucy; full page ads for Quintessence, Middle earth Records, Traffic, John & Yoko Wedding Album. Half page ads for Doors and Love, and Terry Reid.
Words: “Editorial group...”
it68 Nov21-Dec 4 1969: Interview with
activist DC of The Black Panther Party; Marquis de Sade; report of
biological/chemical weapons in relation to Vietnam War; People Not Psychiatry;
Little Richard – ‘The Original Hippie’; Led Zeppelin; Biafra –A Blueprint;
Great Grass Famine by Abbie Hoffman – cc 24pp
Edward Barker joins Graham Keen in Design....Joy Farren: What’s
Happening..
it69 Dec 5th-17th 1969 – ‘Diversion & Subversion’, IT Busted for Gay contact
ads; Vienna; lots from Manchester scenes; S E London squatters; Ten Years
After; Atomic Rooster; Meher Baba / Black Country Blues / Stackwaddy / –cc
Mick Farren returns to music section...
it70 Dec 18 - 1969: IT game; Black Panthers;
1970
it71 Jan 14th - 28th 1970: “