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Naked and the Dead, The (Norman Mailer) 45, 443
Naked Lunch, The (Burroughs) 15, 27, 31, 48, 66, 315, 384, 439
Brion Gysin script 249
Nameth, Ronald xviii, 287–93 (interview), 314, 320
Naropa Institute, Boulder 28, 358, 362, 365, 369, 370, 401, 417, 421–2
Nash, Graham 12, 160
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 70
Nation, The (magazine) 143, 143n 3
‘Neal and Jack and Me’ (King Crimson) 54
Neal Cassady (film) 203
Neal Cassady Birthday Bash, The 204, 207, 210
Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944–1967 205, 205n 2
Nelson, Bill xviii, 313–20 (interview)
Nelson, Willie 95, 97, 98
‘Neurotica’ (King Crimson) 55
Neuwirth, Bobby 111, 118, 128, 366
New Departures (magazine) 179, 185, 187, 234
Live New Departures 235–6, 255
New Journalism 17, 52
Newman, Barnett 8, 74
Newman, Randy 11
New Musical Express (magazine) 16, 17, 389
Newsweek (magazine) 142
New World Writing (magazine) 330–1
New York City 5, 49, 93, 105, 111, 112, 298, 346, 348, 368, 405, 410, 412
Daily News, New York 410
New York Dolls, The 56, 386
New York Post 8, 114, 297
‘New York Talkin’ Blues’ (Dylan) 112
New York Times 25, 152, 296 335
‘New Vision, The’ 6n 4, 24, 158
new wave 42, 55, 371, 404
Nico 48, 166, 289
Nicosia, Gerald 155
Nighthawks at the Diner (Tom Waits) 341
Nin, Anaïs 245
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) 42, 225
Nirvana xvi, 44
No Direction Home (film) 37, 107n 1, 296
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) 70
‘Norwegian Wood’ (The Beatles) 10
‘Not Fade Away’ (The Rolling Stones) 376
Notting Hill Carnival 248n 83
Nova Convention, The 63
Nova Express (Burroughs) 27
no wave 371
Nuttall, Jeff 234, 241
Oakland, California 116, 121, 135
Objectivists, The 362
occult, the 318, 394
Off Beat/A Red Hot Sound Trip (Various Artists) 64
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac (David Amram) 87, 93
Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (Carolyn Cassady) 154, 204, 336
O’Hara, Frank 93, 350, 372
Oldenburg, Claes 20
Olinksy, Frank 332
Olson, Charles 167, 183, 186, 245
‘On Hyndford Street’ (Van Morrison) 54
On The Road (Kerouac) xv, 9, 15, 22, 25, 26, 30, 54, 58–9, 66, 84, 92, 117, 129, 143, 152, 208–9, 213, 233–4, 259, 323, 330–1, 332, 332n 12, 334–5, 338, 340, 367, 380, 403, 417, 423, 432, 436, 441
film 431, 431n 1, 451–3
film soundtrack 451–6 (review)
influence on Dylan 110, 112, 284
Neal Cassady/Dean Moriarty 30, 203–4, 331, 452
Original Scroll 334, 335–6, 336n 18, 417
publication 27
‘On The Road’ (Jack Kerouac song) 334, 336–9, 455–6
‘On the Road’ (Tom Waits Song) 62, 323,339–44, 426
‘On The Road Again’ (Bob Dylan) 120
‘On The Road Again’ (Canned Heat) 448
One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur 41, 321, 323, 344, 347, 363, 365, 427–8, 435
review of 431–433
soundtrack 435–8
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 50, 120
Ono, Yoko 38, 169, 246, 315, 384
Oppen, George 362
Ordinary Madness (Charles Bukowski) 439
Organic Trains (Jim Carroll) 368, 372
‘Orizaba 210 Blues’ (Kerouac) 95, 333–4
Orlovsky, Peter xvii, 1, 26, 62, 114, 123, 128, 297, 407, 410, 422
obituary 201–2
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Tom Waits) 343
Orwell, George 215, 225
Osborne, John 228
Outsider, The (Colin Wilson) 228
Oz (magazine) 16, 242
Page, Jimmy
Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge 373n 1, 374, 396
Paolozzi, Eduardo 20
Paris Review, The (magazine) 104, 368, 372
Parker, Charlie 6–7, 75, 89, 90, 104, 186, 299, 455
Parker, Edie 54, 154
Parker, Graham 23, 40, 326, 426, 427
Parsons, Gram 437
Parsons, Tony 17, 389
Partch, Harry 315
Pastorius, Jaco 161
Patchen, Kenneth 53, 64, 126, 126n 86, 186, 187, 235, 245, 302, 446, 449
Patten, Brian 38, 176, 186, 236, 247
Peace and Noise (Patti Smith) 163, 355
Peace Eye Bookstore, NYC 413
Pearl Jam 40, 352
Peel, John 313
Pennebaker, D. A. 117–18
‘Penny Lane’ (The Beatles) 10, 258, 271–2, 280
Performance (film) 249
Perry, Mark 387
People, The (newspaper) 231
People and Places (TV show) 403
‘People Who Died’ (Jim Carroll) 369, 370, 372
Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) 9, 274
Petting Zoo, The (Jim Carroll) 326
Picasso, Pablo 184
Pictures of the Gone World (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 63, 84, 87, 321
Pink Floyd 246, 251, 258, 274
‘Piss Factory’ (Patti Smith) 163, 350n 14
Pitt, Brad 452
Place of Dead Roads, The (Burroughs) 42
Platters, The 89
Playboy (magazine) 338
Poet Song (Tina and David Meltzer) 305
‘Poetry and All That Jazz’ (UFO) 60
Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, The (Edward Sanders) 47
Poetry for the Beat Generation (Kerouac) 61
Poetry Olympics, The 190, 252
Poetry Recordings in the Cellar with the Cellar Jazz Quintet (Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth) 63
Poet w/Jazz 1958 (David Meltzer) 64, 301
‘Poisoned Wheat’ (Michael McClure) 123
Pollock, Jackson 8, 74, 346
Pop Art 19, 74, 81, 367
Pop, Iggy 60
Pop Matters (website) 379
Popular Arts, The (Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel) 227
P-Orridge, Genesis xvii, 43, 373–40
collaboration with Burroughs and Gysin 379, 395–6, 398–9
COUM Transmissions 383, 386, 390
Industrial (record label) 389, 390, 395
influence of the Beats 382–83
mailart 383–4, 390
meeting Burroughs 384–5, 390
moving to the US 392
pandrogyny 375, 378, 392, 394
poetry 381–2
use of cut-up 43, 374, 375, 385, 387–8, 395, 398–9
see also Prostitution, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle
Portable Beat Reader, The (Ann Charters) 109, 304
‘Positively Fourth Street’ (Dylan) 120
post-beat 109, 346, 358, 360–1, 364, 368
postmodernism 19, 75, 80
Post Office (Charles Bukowski) 439
post-punk 42, 57, 165, 173, 421
Pound, Ezra 73, 362
Prado, Perez 453
Presley, Elvis xviii, 9, 30, 70, 78, 91, 136, 185, 210, 412, 447
‘Pretty Vacant’ (The Sex Pistols) 387
Prez see Lester Young
‘“Priest” They Called Him, The’ (Burroughs) 44, 63
Primus 40, 62, 334, 342, 426
Prostitution (live show) 383, 386, 389
Protest, The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men (Feldman and Gartenberg) 229, 232<
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Psychic TV 397
Puente, Tito 91
Pull My Daisy (film) 61, 87, 92, 94, 160n 10, 210, 333, 334
punk 40, 55, 147–8, 260, 351, 356, 371, 386, 401–2, 405, 409, 445
‘Queen Jane Approximately’ (Dylan) 120
Queer (Burroughs) 26
Quicksilver Messenger Service 52, 124, 137, 141, 302–3
Radio Ethiopia (Patti Smith) 359
Ragas (David Meltzer) 301
Rage Against The Machine 38
Ma Rainey 186
Rakosi, Carl 362
Ramones, The 262, 405
Ranaldo, Lee 40, 57–8, 324, 332, 337, 426
Rand, Ayn 20
rap 60, 91 see also hip hop
Raskin, Jonah 259–62 (Q&A)
Rauschenberg, Robert 70, 75
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (Kerouac) 61
Ready Steady Go (TV show) 377
Reality Sandwich (website) 419
Rebel Motorcycle Club 38
Rebel Without a Cause (film) 71–2, 150, 217
Reckoning (Grateful Dead) 52
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The 60
Redding, Otis 186
Redl, Harry 296
Reed, Lou 14, 23, 47, 49, 166, 260, 289, 357, 413, 450
Syracuse University 14
‘Refuge of the Roads’ (Joni Mitchell) 161
Reluctant Beat, A (radio show) 83
REM 4, 58
Renaldo and Clara (film) 37, 128, 129, 131, 297, 429
RE/Search (magazine) 379, 385, 386, 392, 394
Revolt Into Style (George Melly) 181
Revolver (The Beatles) 9, 15, 277
Rexroth, Kenneth 26, 49, 66n 3, 85, 139–40, 186, 229, 299–300
Reznikoff, Charles 362
rhythm and blues (R&B) 223, 377
Ribot, Marc 62
Richard, Cliff 222
Richard(s), Keith 43, 90, 441
art school 14, 313
Riley, Sam 452–53
Rimbaud, Arthur 56, 346, 351, 354, 357, 361, 362, 364, 365, 369
Ring, Kevin 445–50 (Q&A)
riot grrrl 3, 165, 166, 167, 173
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The (David Bowie) 42
‘River’ (Joni Mitchell) 160
River: The Joni Letters (Herbie Hancock) 161
Rivers, Larry 8n, 92, 160n 10, 367, 372
Roach, Max 455
Road Movies (Lee Ranaldo) 58
Road to the Western Lands, The (Burroughs) 63
Robertson, Robbie 2, 122, 197
Rock Against Racism 34, 449
Rock Around The Clock (film) 72, 217
‘Rock Island Line’ (Lonnie Donegan) 219
rock ’n’ roll 67, 71, 80, 87, 90, 96, 136, 138–40, 185–6, 216, 218, 259, 283, 329n, 446
definition of xviii
‘Rock ’n’ roll Nigger’ (Patti Smith) 163
rock music 9, 13, 135, 200, 207–8, 268, 271, 283, 371, 449–50
Rogers, Jimmie 95
Rolling Stone (magazine) 15, 16–17, 23, 42, 129, 141, 142n 2, 268
Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, The (Holly George-Warren) 23
Rolling Stones, The 17, 89, 90, 136, 223, 265, 373, 376–7, 441
Rolling Thunder Revue, The 37, 108, 127–32, 162, 169, 187, 202, 222, 249, 260, 296, 429
Rollins, Henry 59, 369
Rollins, Sonny 255
Ronson, Mick 129, 406
Room at the Top (John Braine) 228
Rosenquist, James 20, 75
Roth, Phillip 72
Rothko, Mark 8, 74
Rotten, Johnny 386
Roundhouse, The, London 275
Rubber Soul (The Beatles) 277
Rubin, Barbara 47–8, 241, 289, 360
Rubin, Jerry 122, 420
Rundgren, Todd 62
Rushing, Jimmy 186
Russell, Arthur 62
Russell, Bertrand 233, 302
Russell, Curley 455
Russell, Tom 60, 448
Rykodisc 323, 445
Salinger, J. D. 73, 150, 266, 439
Salles, Walter 431, 453
Sampas, Jim 40, 84, 321–7 (Q&A), 332, 337, 425–30, 435, 436–7
Sampas, John 324, 426
Sampas, Stella 155, 321n 1, 426, 436
Santaolalla, Gustavo 451, 453, 456
San Francisco 1, 20, 38, 49–50, 52, 65, 84, 102, 116, 121, 122, 124, 137, 144, 176, 191, 239, 262, 280, 302, 307, 409–10, 432, 446, 453
North Beach 1, 137–8, 176, 201, 213, 264, 296, 299, 309
Summer of Love 263, 267–71
Vesuvio’s 2, 83, 122, 198
‘San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair’ (Scott McKenzie) 279
San Francisco Chronicle 194, 213
San Francisco Oracle (newspaper) 267
San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, The 49, 135, 296
San Francisco Poets, The (David Meltzer) 305
Sanders, Ed (Edward) 33, 45–47, 407, 412–16, 443–4, 446, 450
TV appearance with Jack Kerouac 46, 418
Sandman, Mark 323, 325
Santana, Carlos 95, 98
Saroyam, Aram 245
Sartre, Jean-Paul 75, 224
‘Sartori in Tangier’ (King Crimson) 54
Satori in Paris (Kerouac) 54
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe) 228
Savage, Jon 386, 389
Scaduto, Anthony 108, 297
Scaffold, The 247
Schwartz, Delmore 49, 340, 357
‘Sea’ (Kerouac) 432
Sebastian, John 11
Second World War 216, 298, 360
‘See Emily Play’ (Pink Floyd) 258
‘See You Later Allen Ginsberg’ (The Band) 120
Seeger, Pete 79, 118, 150, 221, 266, 437
Selby Jr., Hubert 20
‘September on Jessore Road’ (Ginsberg) 127
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles) 9, 11, 48, 243, 245, 261, 263, 265–67, 271–7, 279–81
cover (Peter Blake) 243, 272, 277
Serra, Richard 143
‘Series of Dreams’ (Bob Dylan) 132
Serpent Power, The 305, 309, 448
‘Seven Things about Kenneth Rexroth’ (Michael McClure) 140
Seventh Heaven (Patti Smith) 350
Sex (clothes shop) 386
‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ (Ian Dury) xix
Sex Pistols, The 56–7, 262, 386–8, 405
Sexual Politics (Kate Millet) 151
Scorsese, Martin 54
Scott-Heron, Gil 60, 186
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity (Lee Ranaldo) 58
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Kerouac) 58
‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ (Bill Haley and His Comets) 67
Shakespeare, William 4, 20
Shangri-Las, The 172
Shearing, George 186, 453
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 20
Shelton, Robert 108, 296
‘She’s Leaving Home’ (The Beatles) 275, 276, 277
‘She Loves You’ (The Beatles) 376
Shepard, Sam 128, 129, 321, 367, 371, 427, 432
Sholle, Jon 62, 408
Sillitoe, Alan 228
Simon, Carly 169
Simon, Paul 11
Sims, Zoot 61, 322
Sinatra, Frank 329n
‘Sister Ray’ (The Velvet Underground) 49
681 Lexington Avenue: A Beat Education in New York City 1947–1954 (Elizabeth Von Vogt) 153
Six Gallery, The, SF 26, 65, 84, 135–36, 410
Sketches of Spain (Miles Davis) 81
Skiffle 219–21, 220n 14
Slant (website) 347
Slick, Grace 11
Small Faces, The 224
Smith, Bessie 89
Smith, Harry 365
Smith, Patti xvi, 4, 18, 23, 38, 43, 56, 58, 155, 162–4, 208, 260, 321, 322, 324, 345–66, 368–9, 371, 372, 411, 419, 426, 432, 448
Beat
connection 356–66
connection with Dylan 365, 360
friendship with Ginsberg 352–65, 363
influence of Kerouac 363
St. Mark’s debut 352
Smiths, The 39
Sniffin’ Glue (fanzine) 387
Snyder, Gary 26–7, 52, 66n 3, 124, 143, 145, 162, 300, 318, 447, 450
Soft Machine (band) 41, 188, 246, 250, 274
Soft Machine, The (Burroughs) 27, 31, 41, 363, 384
Soho, London 229
Solomon, Carl 25
Some of the Dharma (Jack Kerouac) 417
Sometimes A Great Notion (Ken Kesey) 50
Sommerville, Ian 387, 390
Son House 455
‘Song’ (Ginsberg) 422
‘Song For Woody’ (Bob Dylan) 112
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake (Ginsberg) 62
Songs of Leonard Cohen, The (Leonard Cohen) 55
Sonic Youth 4, 23, 57, 166, 332
Sopranos, The (TV show) 428, 432
soul 224
Southern, Terry 126
Spacey, Kevin 343
Spaniard in the Works, A (John Lennon) 243
Spann, Otis 186
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (Burroughs) 63
Specials, The 449
Spice-Box of the Earth, The (Leonard Cohen) 55
Splendor in the Grass (film) 87
Spontaneous prose, spontaneity 95, 109–10, 437
Springsteen, Bruce 22, 321, 405, 420, 423, 436
St. Mark’s Church, NYC 46, 49, 66, 162, 325, 405, 413
St. Mark’s Poetry Project, NYC 43, 154, 167, 348, 349, 356, 362, 365, 367, 369, 372
‘Star Me Kitten’ (REM) 59
Stax Records 224
Steele, Tommy 186, 222
Steely Dan 41, 63
Steinbeck, John 423, 439
Stein, Chris 63
Steinem, Gloria 149
Steppenwolf 41
Steve Allen Show 209
Stevens, Cat 11
Stewart, Kristen 452
Stills, Stephen 12
Stipe, Michael 40, 59, 324
Straight Hearts’ Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters (Ginsberg and Orlovsky) 202
Stravinsky, Igor 88
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (The Beatles) 10, 258, 271–2, 280
Strummer, Joe 4, 40–1, 57, 187, 189, 325, 404–5, 426
Sturridge, Tom 453
‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ (Bob Dylan) 10, 36, 118–19
Subterraneans, The (Kerouac) 27, 119
Sunday Times 439
‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ (Stephen Stills) 12
Summer of Love, The 23, 52, 124, 263–4, 267–71
‘Sunshine of Your Love’ (Cream) 248, 255
Surrealism 240, 259, 357, 359, 393, 411
Sutcliffe, Stuart 237
Swinging Sixties, The 214
‘Sympathy for the Devil’ (The Rolling Stones) 261
T-T, Chris 439–41 (Q&A)
‘Talkin’ New York’ (Bob Dylan) 10
‘Tangled Up In Blue’ (Bob Dylan) 285
Taupin, Bernie 11
Tarantula (Bob Dylan) 36, 125–6