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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)
Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. Lest the impressionable masses smoke it, the great and good who toke a joint and eneage in immoral drug taking must made...
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The London Rock ‘N’ Roll Show 1972: OZ, FRENDZ And Let It Rock
Flyer for The Rock n Roll Show printed on the back of a subscription form for Oz magazine, July 1972. I acquired my first underground press publications in the summer of 1972, at about the point when...
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‘Schoolkids’ Oz: Read In Full The Magazine That Started A Revolution
In May 1970, London-based Oz magazine published the ‘SCHOOL KIDS ISSUE’, OZ No. 28. The issue was so-called not because it was aimed at children but was written by around 20 secondary school students...
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The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’
For over 200 years Soho has had a racy reputation. Prostitution, for instance, was relatively open in the area at least until the Street Offences Act of 1959. The number of sex-shops, however, had...
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Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate: Jo Gannon’s 1970 Look At ‘The...
Taking its title from a song on hippie outfit Quintessence’s debut album, Jo Gannon’s documentary Getting It Straight In Notting Hill Gate captures the social churn in the west London neighbourhood at...
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Rabble-rousing Caroline Coon, Eric The Tramp and the Oz obscenity trial
Photographer Joe Stevens has dug deep into his archive for these three gems from his time with the underground press in London in the early 70s. Activist/artist Caroline Coon leads protests outside the...
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Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine
Best known as one of the founders of British design collective Tomato, Graham Wood chose a 1968 poster for underground magazine Oz as the wellspring for a series of 24 poster prints. Selection of...
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High Buildings, Low Morals: Stories They Didn’t Want You To Know
Walker’s Court, Soho in 1966 Modern London is all sanitised and gentrified comes the familiar lament. Soho’s safe after dark, the City’s villains phone it in and vice has been scrubbed and plucked...
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How The Face Magazine Cultured A Generation
The Face Magazine: In 1967 20-year-old East London local newspaper reporter Nick Logan joined the staff of the New Musical Express, working at the offices in Long Acre in central London’s Covent...
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Memories of Mick Farren: An Afternoon In West Hollywood And Champagne-Fired...
’Mick Passes Shirley, 1955′ Illustration for a feature about growing up in the 50s by Mick Farren, Club International 1975 by Hollyhead/NTA from an idea of George Hardie’s Growing up in London in the...
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Cut It Out: The Astounding Story Behind Barney Bubbles’ Hawkwind Galactic...
/Hawkwind’s Space cut-out-and-keep 21-card “Galactic Tarot” pack arranged in the shape of a hawk in IT 117, November 18 – December 2, 1971. Design: Barney Bubbles The cards arranged in rows of seven...
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How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the...
“We had the launch party at the Roundhouse in Camden. It had been used for storing gin, and had been abandoned for seventeen years. It was just a big space with a balcony that was apparently unsafe....
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