Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Indica Book Shop

During part of the 60s, there was in Southampton Row, 102, a book shop, Indica Book Shop, of a guy called Barry Miles.
He was inside the explosion of the Beat Generation in London and made the bridge between this city and the West Coast and New York, mainly through his bookshop, that imported forbidden books (like "naked Lunch" by Allen Ginsberg, "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, etc) and tried to confront the retrograde and repressive rules of the english society of then. This Barry Miles was involved in the dissemination of literature, poetry, in the creation of an ideas journal called International Times (IT), organized parties, concerts with the bands and artists that were rising in the time, Paul McCartney, John Lennon with the Beatles, Mick Jagger with the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa with his Mothers of Reinvention, anyway, whatever interesting stuff that was happening was for sure that he was involved. The book "In The Sixties" is compulsory for whom wants to know after all what were the crazy 60s, mainly in London.
Bearing in mind that I lived in the same area and lots of references this book does are to places where I've been or used to go regularly I thought funny to check what happened to the famous "Indica Book Shop".

This one's for you, João:


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