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beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1970)	(insert: Print Mint posters ad) Poem ‘A Sane Revolution’ by D.H. Lawrence. OZ subscription form. ‘Portrait of a Bolshevist’ 2p graphics. 1p Blackhill Enterprises and Vertigo ads. ‘The New Word Po Po’ – Edward de Bono. ‘Heavy Shit’ by Felix Dennis. ‘Gangster of Love Deported’ – extract from Bill Levy’s journal. LP reviews: Tim Buckley, Renaissance, Taj Mahal, Miles Davis. 4p CBS ad. ‘The Biggest Tool in Show-Biz’ - on Roddy McDowell. ‘The Slag heap Erupts by Germaine Grrer. Candy Darling photo centerfold. ‘The Food Explosion’ part 2. Lennon/Ono Instant Karma! ad. Dear Doctor Hippocrates. ‘Acid Flix’ – underground film by Albie Thoms. ‘Flogging Critics’ by Peter Buckman. 2p girls and car photo. Ad for Suck. Ad for Friends & ad for IT with Edward drawing. Full page Time Out ad. John & Yoko ‘Ban Guns’ ad. The Chicago Conspiracy Trial transcript and full page cartoon. ‘Played Out’ - David Widgery reviews Richard Neville’s Playpower. ‘Head Books’ by Jim Anderson. Chaoz – anti TV. Back cover Martin Sharp Marilyn/Vincent montage
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	‘The End Funnies’ cartoon. Mott the Hoople ad. 2p Elvis/Sun Records montage/game - A Trip Down Memory Lane with the Sun Stars. ‘America’s Real Uncle Sam’ – Robert Finnis on Sam C. Phillips. Mighty Baby ad. Plastic Ono Band Live Peace in Toronto ad. Review of Dylan’s Great White Wonder and Bob Dylan LPs by Felix Dennis. 4p CBS Records ad. Other Scenes. – Japan. Gilbert Shelton Furry Freak Bros cartoon. 2p Martin Sharp ‘Tiny Tim’ collage. Dr Hip Pocrates. Vertigo Records ad. Full page ad for the Beatles’ Something/Come Together. 3p Peter Fonda interview reprinted from the Georgia Straight + Easy Rider pics. ‘Ibiza: Syringes naked breasts and all that shit’. Centre page ‘Wrestling’ poster - Danne Hughes on Scunthorpe. ‘Just Bloody Tenants’ – the Morden estate. 2p on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. ‘Tashkent’ – prison experiences by Anthony Lorraine. ‘Oxford’ – similar experiences by students Roj Jarman and John N. Gray. Special OZ Information Service; The Hash Scene - ‘The Lebannon: The Hole of the Lebanese Black’ by Harvey Matusow. IT Subscription ad by Edward(?). Moody Blues ad. ‘Goodbye Jack Kerouac’ by David Widgery. Arrest in Turkey. ‘Dynamite the BBC’. Other Scenes subscription ad. Full page ad for Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Cold Turkey’. ‘Arts Lab Death’ – letter from Jim Haynes. ‘Kill for Love’ – letter from Mick Farren (reply to Germaine Greer’s ‘Mozic’ article in OZ 24). Syd Barrett Madcap Laughs/‘Octopus’ ad. The Sun ‘Leper Rapes Girl’ reprint. Friends ad. Reviews: Quintessence, Mighty Baby, John Mayall, King Crimson, The Byrds. Straight Records ad. Full page Louise Ferrier photo/ Scarlett O’Hara quote. Blackhill Enterprises ad. Full page John & Yoko Wedding Album ad. Bonzo Dog ad. Full Page Rolling Stones Let It Bleed ad. Book Reviews: Pablo Neruda, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Bernadette Devlin. 1p+trippy graphic. Back cover girl with whip photo by Gerard Malanga
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	Lee Heater cover (insert: Honeybunch Kaminski poster with anti-Oz articles from the People [7/9/69] and a rebuttal from the Guardian [10/9/69] on the reverse). ‘Welcome to the OZ Freak Show’ by Ian Channell. Danae on Rufus Collins & the Living Theatre. Marcia Herscovitz interviews herself. ‘Urological Nurturement’ by John Ivor Golding. Gilbert Shelton ‘Freak Brothers’ strip. Lee Heater. Anthony Haden-Guest on ‘Bruce’, a freak. ‘I Agree with your Tactics But I Don’t Know about Your Goals’ - extracts from Jerry Rubin’s Do It! 1p+ John & Yoko photomontage. Dr Hip Ocrates. ‘Mr Orgone’ - Interview with Ilse Reich about Wilhelm. Rolling Stones Through the Past, Darkly ad. ‘The Navy Lark’. ‘Mozic and the Revolution’ by Germaine Greer. Harvest records ad. LP reviews: The Kinks, John Mayall and Steve Miller. ‘The Beatles Come Together’ - Abbey Road/John Lennon interview by Miles. Back cover ad (girl dancing in IOW festival crowd) for LP by Free
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	“yet each man kills the thing he loves…” Wilde quote on cover. Full-page IOW ad – Bob Dylan & The Band, Richie Havens. Max Ernst illustrations with captions and centerfold. Martin Sharp single frames throughout. A run of critical/cryptic statements which feature at the top & sides of some pages. Gay lovers photo - ‘Man Maketh Man’. ‘Suck for Peace’ – extracts from The Homosexual Handbook by Angelo d’Arcangelo. ‘Take it Like a Man’ – a young West London drug addiction clinic doctor on homosexuality. Michael J.W. Storey – the last supper. ‘Did You Feel the Earth Move Little Rabbit?’ - Bob Hughes on the moon landing. Miles on ‘Mother Earth’. Ad for The Julian Press. ’Return of the Media Pirates’: Caroline News – Alan Reid on pirate radio. Form/graphic declaration and article on leaving the Air Force. Dr Hip Ocrates. Poverty Cooking. Review of Some of IT, Turning On and Nik Cohn’s Pop from the Beginning. Harvest Records ad. Mozic: Blind Faith LP cover (nude 11 year-old girl) with a condemnation of it by Don Short of the Daily Mirror. Phil Ochs/Deviants/Pink Fairies music culture commentary. LP reviews: Blind Faith, Martha Vellez, Dr Strangely Strange and Tim Buckley. Spoof film ad. Trouble in Molopolis – Martin Sharp photo. Leonard Cohen ‘The Beautiful Loser’ by Raymond Durgnat. Time Out ad. 2p back issues + Middle Earth ad. ‘Biography of the Simeon Synthesizer’ by Simeon of Silver Apples. Back cover ‘Free chickens’ Gilbert Shelton cartoon
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1970)	LSD – ‘The Acid Facts’ text and graphic. ‘The Chemical Revolution: To Trip is Human, To Revolt Divine!’. 2p+ Thead cartoon. ‘Not So Instant Karma’ by Jim Anderson. ‘Zabriskie Petit-Point’. ’14 Ways of Looking at Charles Manson… and one way of talking to him’. 2p Martin Sharp ‘Acid is Good For You’ graphic. ’Dope Hope’ by Steve Morris. The Wooton Report on LSD and Amphetamine by Steve Abrams. ‘Women on the Moon’ – Michelene Wandor’s reply to Greer. Tony Bell cartoon. ‘Candy Darling finds Love at Last’ - interview with Arthur Lee/Love by Jim Anderson. Centrespread ‘I Was a Teenage Bopper’ prepubescent girls photo by Thomas Weir (incidentally, he also did the back cover shot for the Dead’s Aoxomoxoa LP). Extracts from Robert Finnis’ History of Teen Idols and Teenybop. ‘Satans Slaves Read Books’ – review by Jim Anderson. ‘Crazy Otto Sheds His Guilt’ - Albie Thoms on Otto Muehl. LP reviews: Live/Dead, GTOs, Mick Farren, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller, Rod Stewart. 4p+ CBS Records ad. ‘Playpower in Pornoland’ by Richard Neville. Playpower ad. 2p photomontage by Jo Garcia. Back cover - Oz back-issues and subscription with David Nutter ‘castration’ photomontage
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	The Doors Waiting For the Sun and Roundhouse appearance ad. Berke’s Bourgeoise – a Lexicon compiled by Joe Berke. Soldiers with decapitated men photo – ‘Where We’re At’. ‘Trip Without a Ticket’ – 4p on the Diggers. ‘Towards the New Synthesis’ by Herman Kahn. Dr Hip Ocrates. “Ensure Confusion – every OZ is different” editorial, subscription & back issues. Peace News, Apple (a small ad that appears twice), Deviants, Time Out and Dr Alan Cohen lecture tour ads. Full page Martin Sharp cartoon strip. Full page Apple ad with text by Miles. ‘Fading Freedoms/Latent Fascisms’ part 3 by Raymond Durgnat. IT subscription form. ‘The Yellow-on-Orange-Press’ by Sheldon Williams. ‘Anti-U’ – the London Anti-University by Alan Krebs. ‘Anti-U2’ by Bill Mason. Ad for the Institute of Phenomenological Studies Dialectics of Liberation LP recordings. ‘3rd World’ – Norodom Sihanouk on Cambodia. ‘The Hair of Fabian Douglas’ – a 5p tale from ‘The Alf-Back’ by Neil Douglas about a boy expelled from an Australian school for having long hair. ‘Law & Order & Justice ho ho!’ a documentary about colour prejudice in the police force with credits to the BBC, Black Dwarf & Black Panthers. Viva Che! Lorrimer Publishing ad. The Electric Circus – devoted to the environment with an ‘Octahedron House’ cut-out plan. ‘1+1 +J-LG’ 2 or 3 tapes of a press conference with Jean-Luc Godard. Jefferson Airplane pic & ideal LP compilation by John Leaver. MGM Records ad. ‘Czechs Told’ by Richard Deutscher. ‘Chicago’ - Eugene Schonfield on Yippies and demo
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	Centrefold hippy girl. ‘Fading Freedoms/Latent Fascisms’ part 2 by Raymond Durgnat. Racism in the UK — Excuse Me, Is That the Way to the Gas Chambers? Letter from Rishikesh (Maharishi camp). Outer cover poster: Martin Sharp graphics, Incredible String Band ad, Existence is Unhappiness and Desire Can Be Destroyed Oz benefit
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Mike McInney cartoon/article. Merry Pranksters and Acid Tests. Timothy Leary Playboy interview. Will the real Frodo Baggins please stand up? 2 page naked girl sitting on toilet/parliament. An address to politicians-pop-drugs. Protest Postcards to politicians. Colin MacInnes ‘In Praise of Ugliness’. Yoko Ono film protest. 3 page Martin Sharp foldout What Beautiful Eyes She Has with Revlon Invents Wet Lipstick on the reverse
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	Square format. Zap Comix graphic. Marmalade Records ad. ‘The Million Dollar Underground’ by Germaine Greer. ‘Private Armies’ – John Crowley on squatting. Full page Saville Theatre Leonard Rossiter in Arturo Ui ad with framing Ebadajos graphic. Pop stars and drug law evasion. Full page ad for Jeremy: the magazine for people who don’t care about sex! John Wilcock’s ‘Other Scenes. ‘Loaded’ by Bob Pritchard & poems by Alan Bold and Pete Brown. Ad for an eveing with Steve Dwoskin. Dr Hip Ocrates. Poverty Cooking. Exploding Hendrix & Plant a Flower Child posters free with OZ subscription ad. ‘The Great Hippie Hoax’ – 7p of hippie horror stories and reprints including a book which allegedly advises that “hippies should be sent to concentration camps”. ‘Drugs is a 5 Letter Word’ by a Sunday Times reporter – critique of “the mindless coverage of drugs by mass media”. 2p centerfold graphics. ‘Television the Bankrupt Medium’ - Oz TV supplement. ‘The Tired Producer’s Notes for His Testament’ by David Sharp – a tired producer. ‘The Cultural Luddites’ by Tom Nairn. ‘Visual Wank’ by Ian Stocks. ‘Shoot it! Show it! Video Now’ by John Hopkins. Ads for Time Out and Some Of IT. Mozic: full page photo of Prince Charles playing the cello. Martha Velez and Murray Roman ads. Frank Zappa/Uncle Meat interview by Pete Drummond. Full page Rolling Stones ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Honky Tonk Women’ ad. LP reviews: Lenny Bruce, Pete Brown, Albert King, Blossom Toes and the Velvet Underground. 2p Rock Quiz + photomontage. Harvest Records ad. ‘Marsha’ – 2p interview with Marsha Hun
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	(insert: Outcry! People's Park poster + Running Man Book News booklet) ‘Rex Organ M.D.’ cartoon. ‘Plant Your Seeds’. Wak Komix cartoons including Martin Sharp Magic Theatre montage - 8 page comic freakout (Clay Wilson, Crumb). Ad for Living Theatre. ‘Living the Revolution’ by John Gerassi. Dr Hip Ocrates. ‘Which Side are you On Baby?’ - Michael English graphic. Middle Earth and ‘Jeremy the best gay mag in the world’ ads. John Hurford 2 page graphic. Full page Janis Joplin pic and Thunderclap Newman ad. ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ - Pete Townshend interview from Tony Palmer’s book. Zapple records ad. Tommy, Nashville Skyline and Liverpool Scene reviews. Rock n roll lyrics (The Chiffons, Johnny Kidd, Eddy Cochran, Little Richard). Poverty Cooking (leg of long pig). Ad for the Who’s Tommy. ‘The Groovy Thing is – You’re Not Alone’ – interview with Murray Roman. ‘Che Body Politic’ theatre review by Danny Hughes. ‘Up Ulster’ - Bernadette Devlin interview by Peter Buckman. Crucified rodent graphic. ‘The Chart is the Map’ Paradise Now body chart. ‘The Plot is the Evolution’ Living Theatre photomontage. ‘The Ritual is the Vision’ by Bill Levy. Marsha Hunt ad photo by David Bailey
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	Letter from Clive James. Martin Sharp cartoons. Germaine Greer’s ‘Flip Top Legal Pot’. IT subscription ad. ‘I Can’t Escape My Passion Drives: Confessions of a Suburban Wife’. ‘Dreaming of a Red Christmas’ by David Widgery, Martin Sharp graphic/collage. Oz back issues with cover images. ‘Barricades Around the Small Screen’ - Wayland Brown on TV. ‘Mr Ripper’s Dirty Books’-obscene publications. Interview with Allen Cohen about Meher Baba. Michael English illustration & C. Logue poem. ‘Continuity & Discontinuity’ by Edward de Bono, ‘The State of American Protest’ by Peter Buckman. Transcription of the Stones’ ‘Street Fighting Man’ and ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ + photo. BFI report confidential. 2p Hippy graphics. ‘Down on the Farm’ - communalism by Emmanuel Petrakis. Martin Sharp’s Electric Circus Exploding Hendrix graphic. ‘Rock Aesthetics’ by Richard Meltzer. ‘Support your Local Police’ by Tom Nairn
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	John Wilcock’s Other Scenes. ‘The Situationists are Coming’ by Angelo Quattrocchi. ‘Bedtime Story’ by Peter Buckman. 2p ‘Victor Vulgar’ cartoon by Von Mora. ‘A Vicious God’. Poems and graphics. Word Play by Peter Mayer. Graphic by McInnerey. IT subscription form. Dr Hip Ocrates. Poverty Cooking (roast Trafalgar pigeon). ‘Out of the Psychodrama’ by David Widgery. ‘Hell’s Angels-Hell’s Who?’ – text and interviews by Andrew Fisher + pictures. ‘Child That I Am I Do’ – 4p text & pictures on the Incredible String Band by Danae. Ad for Lenny Bruce LP. Jimmy Page interview by Felix Dennis. Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone by Sebastian Jorgenson. LP reviews: Traffic, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, Howling Wolf
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1969)	Greer-Stanshall pics front, back, inside front and Greer intermittently throughout. Other Scenes. Martin Sharp ‘There was movement at the station…’ graphic. Spike – Richard Neville on Lee Heater and Abbie Hoffman’s Revolution for the Hell of it of which Neville writes: “ His strategy I would call the Politics of Play…” UPS. Photo of Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding & Caroline Coon. Time Out subscription ad. ‘Frelimo’ – the Mozambique liberation struggle. ‘Food Explosion’ by David Ramsay Steele. Full page ‘piggies’ cartoon. Smoking – Professor Norman Zinberg talks to Caroline Coon about dope + Krishna Lama licensed dope shop ad. ‘Guerilla Psychic Warfare’ part 2 by G. William Domhoff (scribbled in parenthesis at the end: “If the revolution means prose like this let’s LOSE!”). Centrefold poems by Peter Mayer, typography by Alan Rickman. ‘Why the Press Council’s a Fake’ + graphic. OZ subscription ad. Mozic: ‘The Universal Tonguebath-A Groupie’s Vision’ – Staff writer Germaine talks to Dr G, a celebrated (and over educated) international groupie, by Germaine Greer. Jackie Lomax ad. ‘You Might Think it’s a Load of Old Cock, Man, But That’s Your Hangup’ – review of John & Yoko’s Two Virgins by Sebastion Jorgenson. LP reviews: Led Zeppelin, Rhinoceros, The Concert Ensemble, The Everly Brothers, Murray Roman, Touch. Full page photos of Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia and Mick Jagger from the Beggars Banquet sessions. Full page photo and quote from the Incredible String Band. ‘This Man is Dangerous’ – Detective Sgt Norman (Normal) Pilcher, head of Scotland Yard’s drug squad. ‘The Only Living Dylanologist’ – A.J. Weberman talks to Gordon Friesen + Dylan photo. Led Zeppelin, Family, Roy Harper, Gutbucket, Middle Earth, Island Records ads. Inside back cover ad for The Encyclopaedia of Sexual Behaviour
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	The Magic Theatre refers to Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf, “Entrance not for everybody. Price of admittance, your mind and 3 shillings”. Robert Hughes, author of The Shock of the New, said of this issue, “Sharp has assembled one of the richest banks of images that has ever appeared in a magazine”. The next issue of Oz described OZ 16 thus: “Sharp and Von Mora invite you to the Magic Theatre.
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	2p inside cover Incinderjell photomontage by Dow Corp. Martin Sharp cartoons run along bottom of most of the issue; also Situationist illustrations (special - cut each page into 3 strips for thousands of variations issue). Peace News, Arts Lab & AntiUniversity of London ads. ‘The Men Who Ban OZ’ - and banned books. ‘Justice & Violence in Armed Conflict’ by Andrew Fisher. Justice & Violence in Athens and Arkansas ‘68. War comic strips/real war photos juxtaposed. Barry Craddock ‘Presidential Elections’ centerfold cartoon. The Running Man’ ad. Response to ‘The Digger Thing’ in issue #9 and call for a forum. Roger McGough full page poem ‘Summer with the Monarch’ + photo. Underground ‘Conversation’/manifesto. Adrian Mitchell on Vietnam. IT subscription form. Splash Posters ad
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	Dylan ‘song poems new stuff “FREEZE-OUT”’ - transcribed lyrics for ‘The Million Dollar Bash’, ‘Tiny Montgomery Says Hello’, ‘I see My Life Come Shining’ (sic) & ‘Crash on the Levee’. Ozmosis. ‘Blow-Up!’ – the Kennedy assassination and the ‘Moorman photo’. ‘The Digger Thing is Your Thing…’ call for a British Digger movement. Che Guevara montage. IT subscription ad. Letter from Michael X. Angelo Quattrochi’s open letter to Fidel Castro. Martin Sharp ‘If I Could Turn You On...’ graphic. 7p Flying Saucer Digest + graphics + Martin Sharp cartoon. Flying Saucer Review ad. ’A Healthy Mind in a…’ – Julian Manyon on schools. Big O Posters full page ad. ‘Devaluation Trilogy’ - David Widgery on Georg Buchner. R. Cobb modern Americans/dead natives cartoon. Geuvara/Guevara apology. A handout from The Antiuniversity of London + Bob Whitaker photo. Liberation News Service + montage/cartoon. Neil Oram photo/poem
beatchapter.com 3rd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	(insert: Yoko Ono Film No.4 ad. for the Saville Theatre, with photo of 14hr. Technicolour Dream event; infamous mis-spelt Che Guevara poster with psychedelic While Dad’s Away, Mum Will Play poster on reverse) ‘The Circus is in Town’ - Martin Sharp Graphics. ‘Jessie in Kinseyland’. ‘Ozmosis’. R. L. cartoon. 1p+ Objet trouve - cigarette card National Types of Beauty. Forum ad. Oz subscription ad with Beardsley graphics. ‘Russia, You Have Bread, But No Roses’ - Angelo Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution. London Magazine ad. Albert E. Kahn’s Smetana and the Beetles ad. IT subscription form. ‘The Stones, the Beatles, and Spyder Turner’s Raunch Epistemology’ by Richard Meltzer. ‘Image as Language’ ad. Other Scenes reviews Regis Debray’s Revolution in the Revolution. ‘Underground Confidential: World Wide Exclusive’ by Andy Warhol. ‘Think Sideways win £100’ by Edward de Bono. Michael St John ‘Epilogue’. Critique of Michael X. Playboy Club News page. 2p ‘Freelancer’ cartoon. Bulletin #12 from the Psychedelic Information Centre. Carpet Bazaar ad. ‘In Memorium Homo Sapiens Extinct’ back cover graphic
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	The Flower child poster was used by Bonhams for the front cover of their 1996 Rock Pop & Underground posters auction catalogue. Seen above. There are 2 colour variations. Yellow & Pink.
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	‘The Meat Pack’ by Anthony Haden-Guest and Norman Rubington. ‘Black Power’ letter. Middle Earth and London Anti-University ads. Full page Big O Posters ad. ‘Vote, Vote, Vote, For Whoever You Like’ – mobilization for an international Yippie mock election by Jerry Rubin. ‘The Anglo American Pumice Factory’ by Richard Meltzer. Dr Hip ocrates. Martin Sharp’s ‘Vietloon’ text/montage. ‘Fading Freedoms/Latent Fascisms & Hippie High Hopes’ part 1 by Raymond Durgnat. ‘Yesterday I Subscribed to the New Statesman, Today I am Just, Reasonable, Good, & Dead’ + letters. ‘Hippy’ cartoon. Martin Sharp - Ringo graphic. Willem cartoons. Oz subscription page
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Martin Sharp graphics and tarot cards on reverse of poster, for full image click here. Letter from John Calder & letter/report on man who challenged Germaine Greer’s statements about British men. Full page Head Shop/posters ad. ‘Sgt Nasser’s Lonely Heartbreak Band’ – graphic Nasser/Peppers parody. Martin Sharp ‘Norman Normal’ strip. Ad for Cream’s ‘Tales of Brave Ulysses’. ‘Hamlet: I say, we will have no more marriages. Ophelia: but dahling, mommy’s already sent out the invitations’ - Hippy weddings and Guide to Living in Sin. ‘Why did Svetlana’s Old Man Marry Anyway?’ - Polly Toynbee on Russian Puritanism. ‘Candy is dandy Liquor is quicker Penguins are pink But don’t tell the vicar’ - Penguin books. Snakes & Snakes – a lovely game for courting couples. ‘Let Him Die Quickly’ - Angelo Quattrocchi on De Gaulle + graphic. Jehovah Christ Lucifer — Henrietta Moraes on The Process (de Grimston). ‘Changes’ photo and text. Martin Sharp ‘Welcome Sir Frisco’ text + graphic. ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ & ‘Egypt Tarot Predicted an Israeli Victory. Avoid Your Disaster…’ - astrology & tarot
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Bite Sized Oz! Monster Posters! Martin Sharp Toad of Whitehall poster with reverse cut-out ‘Image Seekers’ parody. ‘Shut That Guy Up!’ – Mark Lane on the cover up at the BBC over Warren Commission/Kennedy. Letters including reader willing to have sex with Germaine Greer. Day by dreary day. Martin Sharp ‘Direct from Nirvana Frisco Speaks’ cartoon. ‘British Breasts’—Germaine Greer analyses breasts and bras (+competition to find the best). Amphetamines, where to score in London, prices and dealers. Metamorphoses poem by Peter Porter + graphics. ‘Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the 20th Century’ - interview with Malcolm Muggeridge + Martin Sharp cartoon. Detourned romance strip. ‘A Work of Art’ by Elizabeth Smart. ‘No, Sir, When a Man is Tired of London, He is Tired of Life’ - David Widgery on the London scene. Playmate of the Month (Toad Wilson of Whitehall) text
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Theological Striptease. Turn on, tune in, drop dead. Why New Statesman editor Paul Johnson is so bloody successful, In Bed with the English — Germaine Greer analyses the English man, LBJ playmate foldout, ‘Madonna of the Napalm’ poster, Colin MacInnes on Michael X, Private Eye-the death, David Widgery denounces the paper for having succumbed to establishment celebrities
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1968)	Quadruple ‘Catherine and the Wheel of Fire’ poster with Big O Posters ad on reverse. Martin Sharp Legalise Pot Rally graphic. ‘We Need you Cohn-Bendit’ letter. Eva. The Fugs. Jean-Jacques Lebel. John Wilcock’s Other Scenes. IT subscription form. ‘Agit Oz’ - revolutionary quotes, chart + graphics. ‘When Harrods is Looted’ by David Widgery. 2p ‘Hubert Sanguine’ graphic by Andrew Fisher & David Spode. ‘The May Revolution’ and ‘Philistine’s Tears – Nectar of the Gods’ by Angelo Quattrocchi. Oz Night – the Nice ad. OZ subscription/back issue page. Graffiti 1968. Transcriptions from Dylan’s Don’t Look Back. Incredible String Band ad. ‘Smokeless Interzone’ by Michael Horovitz. Ozmosis – ‘We clothe every child in napalm’ by Paul Lawson. ‘The Alf-Back’ - the Queen in Australia. ‘Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey - The Worst Trip Ever’ by Tom Nairn
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Angello Quattrochi - ‘Wog Beach Shock’ + graphics. ‘What’s So Good About Dylan?’: An Attempt at Analysis by Michael Gray 6p+ with graphics and transcription of ‘Song to Woody’. Nov 1st National Drop-Out Day ad. Other Scenes by John Wilcock. ‘Cock Up Spaniels’ by David Widgery. ‘Michael X and the Flower Children’ interview + photos by Horace Ove + notes from Malik’s pre-trial. 2p ‘Nothing But Flower Children’ photostrip. ‘In Bed With the Americans’ by Polly Peachum. Film ad for How I Won the War. Ad for Penthouse and its “5,000-word celebration of hippiedom” (this issue’s editorial notes a “reciprocal advertising arrangement with Penthouse” and condemns the fact that the OZ ad was censored because “Penthouse has exclusive rights to British obscenity”). IT subscription. Ad for The Mothers’ Freakout. ‘Blueprint for a Beautiful Community’ by John Wilcock. The Science of Being and Art of Living by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi reviewed. 2p ‘Delusions’ cartoon by Hama. Back cover: ‘Had a Good Holiday?’ - Andrew Fisher’s indictment of sunbathing + Medusa graphic
beatchapter.com 2nd Apr 2013		Magazine Oz Magazine (1967)	Produced by John Wilcock of Other Scenes. Michael X photo, R. Cobb graphic. Blue Films by the Yard – obscenity & Scotland Yard. Image – In Memorium Rene Magritte. ‘What Does London Need Most?’. ‘The King and His Coca Cola Court’ - Richard Neville on Nepal. 1p Ray Leong photo of man chained to chair. ‘Dope Sheet’ - 2 pages on drugs by Chester Anderson. John Peel interview by David Phillips & Michael Gray. Letter from a Greek prison. ‘Jagger Saga’ on the Stones’ bust. Michael Tausig on R.D. Laing. Underground Television by Sheldon Renan. Pop lyric collage by Ben Carruthers. ‘The Pornb£oker’ - Anthony Haden-Guest on Maurice Girodias. Rosetalk – hippy language parody + graphics. ‘Leary in Disneyland’ by David Widgery. Snareart’ by Daniel Sporri. Picasso’s Play at St Tropez - Jean-Jacques Lebel. 2p Hama ‘Displacement’ cartoon. Marshall McLuhan’s Kingdom – 2p+ critique of McLuhan + graphics + Sphere ad for Understanding Media. IT ad. Release ad. OZ free back copies subscription ad. Back cover Other Scenes & OZ photomontage featuring Michael X