Barry Miles on Allen Ginsberg’s recordings of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Biographer of the Beats and co-founder of the counter-culture newspaper, International Times, Barry Miles joins Camila Oliveira in conversation about how, through Zapple Records which he set up with John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he came to record Allen Ginsberg’s settings of the poetry of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. In this fascinating discussion, he also reminisces as to how – with Ginsberg and filmmaker Barbara Rubin – he was instrumental in helping to bring about the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965.

 

 

Camila Oliveira

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