OZ 34

OZ 34

Richard Neville, Editor

Please be advised: This collection has been made available due to its historical and research importance. It contains explicit language and images that reflect attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published, and that some viewers may find confronting.

Description

This issue appears with the help of David Wills, Chris Rowley, Marsha Rowe, Richard Neville, Brian McCracken, Stephen Lister, Debbie Knight, Louise Ferrier, Felix Dennis, Stanislav Demidjuk, Caroline, Pat Bell, Jim Anderson and Richard Adams. Thanks for the artwork, photographs and valuable help from Peter Webb and his erotic art class at Hornsey College of Art, Andy Dudzinkski, Rip-Off Press, Lee Heater and Kathy Hayes, Rupert, Simon Wilson, Jean Francios Allaux, Burman, Germany's 'Underground' magazine and Chief Superintendent Toogood (to be true).

Contents: Parent’s Guide to Drug abuse cover. 4p erotic graphics + centerfold by Peter Webb/Hornsey College/Burman. Spike: Oz trial – the charges against OZ 28 + 2 letters from angry headmasters + plea for schoolteachers, psychiatrists and sociologists who will defend OZ. Full page Cochise ad. ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ - Richard Brautigan poem. ‘Letter from America’ – Abbie Hoffman defends himself. Selection’s from Germaine Greer’s Fan Mail: Letters to a Female Eunuch. RELEASE ad. ‘The Last Laugh’ 3p cartoon. Robin Jenkins on Imperialism and exploitation. ‘The Fight’ Robert Crumb cartoon. ‘Uganda Me Goose!’ by Alex Mitchell. Ads for Nasty Tales, Mushroom Records, Caravan. Latin America. ‘Chad: The Ultimate French Farce’ by David Triesman. Ad for William Burroughs Jr’s book Speed. ‘Our Man in Oman’ by Peter Hellyer. ‘One Little Piggy Hogged the Media’ review of Medicine Head LP and reflections on music and the media by Felix Dennis + Diagram of a Drug Abuser. Mail order OZ. Neon Records ad. ‘They’re Selling Postcards of the Hanging’ by Louis Jigsaw. ‘My Lay in My Lai’ by former Sgt Dan Mouer. Vertigo Records ad. Ad for Lennon/Ono Power to the People. LP reviews: Hendrix, John Lee Hooker/Canned Heat, The Incredible String Band, Ray Russel, David Crosby. Review of Marijuana in books and the news. Review of R.B. Fisher’s A Dictionary of Drugs. ‘The Revolution is Over – Tough Shit… You Missed It!’ by David Reynolds’. Back page ad for Ink.

Pages 2, 3, 6 and 7 have not been included in the digitised version.