And here is another copy from my music library
Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in leftist newspapers such as The Guardian. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper International Times.
Biography
In the 1960s, Miles worked at Better Books, which was managed by Tony Godwin. Godwin was friends with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with whom he would exchange Penguin books for City Lights publications. In 1965 Allen Ginsberg gave a reading at Better Books that led to the International Poetry Incarnation, a seminal event co-organised by Miles.
In 1965, Miles and his wife, the former Susan Crane, introduced Paul McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge that they had found in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.
Following the International Poetry Incarnation, Miles established the Indica Gallery and Bookshop, allowing him to meet many of the stars of the Swinging London social scene.[4] Miles brought McCartney into contact with people who wanted to start International Times, which McCartney helped to fund.
With John Hopkins and Dave Howson, Miles organised The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, a concert on 29 April 1967 at Alexandra Palace to raise funds for International Times. It was a multi-artist event, featuring poets, artists and musicians. Pink Floyd headlined the event; other artists included: Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Arthur Brown, jazz-rock group Soft Machine, Tomorrow and The Pretty Things.
Miles became the de facto manager of the Apple’s short-lived Zapple Records label in 1969. While temporarily living in California, Miles produced an album of poetry readings by Richard Brautigan entitled Listening to Richard Brautigan for Zapple. Miles’s friendship with Brautigan ended when Miles became involved in an affair with Brautigan’s girlfriend Valerie Estes. By the time, the album was completed Miles and Brautigan communicated to each other only through their respective lawyers. Zapple was closed before it could release the Brautigan album, but it was eventually released in 1970 by the U.S. division of Harvest Records.
Miles also produced Ginsberg’s Songs of Innocence and Experience LP, recorded in 1969 and released the following year. In 1970, Miles moved with his wife to rural New York state, where he lived with Ginsberg on his farm. However, Miles’s marriage soon ended and he returned to England. Miles currently lives in London and is married to travel writer Rosemary Bailey.
Miles’s book Hippie is a reminiscence of the Hippie sub-culture of the 1960s and early 1970s, with interviews, quotes, and images. He co-wrote I Want to Take You Higher (documenting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit by the same name) with Charles Perry and James Henke.
Miles wrote Paul McCartney’s official biography, Many Years from Now (1998). Miles has also written biographies of Frank Zappa, John Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Ginsberg, in addition to books on The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Clash, as well as a definitive history of London’s counterculture since 1945, London Calling.
In March 1978, Miles wrote an article critical of the band Rush and its drummer Neil Peart, which contentiously labeled the band as right-wing; Peart described himself as a “left-libertarian.” The article, published in UK’s New Musical Express, took exception to Peart’s advocacy of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. Peart had also described the Sex Pistols as products of a “socialist” state. Miles also described Rand (a Russian anti-communist who had become an American citizen) as an “ultra right-wing American.” Miles focused on Peart’s politics and criticized the band’s perceived aloofness and libertarian rhetoric.
In a 2005 biography of Frank Zappa, Miles criticized Zappa regarding his business-oriented approach to art and complaints about inefficient labor union regulations.[16] Zappa regularly described himself as “a devout capitalist” and attempted to broker joint commercial ventures with business interests in the former Soviet Union following the end of the Cold War in 1991. (wikipedia)
And here´s is his Rolling Stones discography from 1980:
A small paperback book made superfluous by better books:
This book features black and white photos and is copyright 1980. It tells you basics of each album in list form. Very few sentences. Its the only discography that tries to give an account of the production by each member outside of the band. Its got a large list of Bill Wyman’s production work for bands like Tucky Buzzard, which I’d never seen before. Additionally its got a section of each members session work and records released by their eponymous record label. It included side work by Mick Taylor which I’d never seen attempted before. I doubt it was complete. About a third of the book is a listing of bootleg vinyl recordings out there which is actually the most useful thing and interesting for historical reasons as one of the most successful bootlegs was of the Rolling Stones, which became a huge industry after the first truly successful bootleg (of Bob Dylan) helped put the bootleg recording industry on the map , along with the typical disclaimer saying they don’t condone that type of thing. (Thank Goodness!!!!). The book has no index. If you click on my name you’ll see my other reviews and I recommend 3 Rolling Stone Discography books that are much more worthwhile than this one, and I explain the plus and minuses of each one and in effect which one will fit which type of reader’s or collector’s needs. Each of the three has something to recommend it depending on your needs. The authors of those three are Martin Elliot, Steve Appleford, and Alan Clayson. (A. Perer)
Of course, there is now more recent discography from the Rolling Stones … but this discography was a beginning, and therefore an important example of the emerging rock music literature of the time.
The official Barry Miles website:
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