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author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin” - reissue producer / liner note writer for Fire Records

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · Apr 18

I have a new book coming via Fantagraphics Press - a visual & oral history of Barney Rosset - Grove Press - Evergreen Review magazine 1957-1973:Bernadette Devlin, Germaine Greer, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, etc

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I like to dream,
Right between the sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right

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Eldridge Cleaver and His Wife, Kathleen, Algeria, 1970⁠

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We all know Danny Goldberg for his remarkable music business trajectory - but last night at Book Soup, it was about something more important- his social justice / civil liberties work!
An educational and inspiring discussion.
Catch him in NYC and DC soon

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Reading is Fundamental

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Neil Diamond talking to Ethel Kennedy after a concert, 1972

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The Byrds reunion album recording session at Wally Heider Studio in Hollywood, 1972 (Photo by Henry Diltz)

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Yoko and the Yippies
A chat with author Pat Thomas on the heavy history between John Lennon and Jerry Rubin

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Yoko and the Yippies - Rock and Roll Globe

When I think of Pat Thomas, I think of the massive amount of space he takes up in my CD collection as one of the world’s most renowned A&R men for

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Phil Ochs performing at Berkeley Folk Music Festival, 1966.
Photo by John Groper.

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Activist Jerry Rubin’s 1970s Protest Boogie With Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Chronicled in Biography (Excerpt)

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Activist Jerry Rubin’s 1970s Protest Boogie With Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Chronicled in New Biography (Excerpt)

"Did it! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary" chronicles efforts to draft Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Yoko Ono into an anti-Nixon agenda.

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Yoko and the Yippies
A chat with author Pat Thomas on the heavy history between John Lennon and Jerry Rubin

rockandrollglobe.com/rock/an-excl...

Yoko and the Yippies - Rock and Roll Globe

When I think of Pat Thomas, I think of the massive amount of space he takes up in my CD collection as one of the world’s most renowned A&R men for

rockandrollglobe.com

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Had no idea!

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Velvet Underground
White Light/White Heat master tape

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“algorithms can't tell you why a record is great”

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spent two weeks with these guys - hearing backstage conversations, running through airports, and screening the Dennis Hopper videos behind the band while they performed original songs about his life and art - this article perfectly captures what I experienced

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The Waterboys remind Americans how to be cool

With their latest project, the British Isles band rediscovers open road wildness through Dennis Hopper.

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The ones we do know about look fabulous

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“all those headlines, they just bore me now - I'm deep inside myself, but I'll get out somehow... all those people, they think they got it made - But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or trade anything I have to be like one of them”

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- Malcolm X

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Wednesday November 5th at City Lights books in San Francisco- I’ll be hosting a Howl 70th anniversary event

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I was at Abbey Road with George and Clapton on guitar, Paul playing bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Ringo in the drum booth. [myself on vocals]. People would have cut off their f*cking arms for that! - Jackie Lomax

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