
Revolution was a radical counterculture magazine published in 11 issues between May 1970 and August 1971. Promoted as "Australia's First Rock Magazine" it grew out of Go-Set, a pop music magazine which since 1966 had catered to the youth market and was owned and operated by three entrepreneurial Melbournites aged 19, 21 and 22. Revolution was a natural progression for editor / publisher Phillip Frazer, focussing on an older audience and moving into broader areas associated with the burgeoning counterculture. Frazer arranged for Revolution to include a supplement of 8 pages of the American music magazine Rolling Stone starting with issue 4 in May 1970, until Revolution was closed down by the new owners of Go-Set in 1971. Frazer then launched another Australian counter-culture magazine to succeed Revolution, called High Times (with Pat Woolley and Macy McFarland) and then, in January 1971, he launched an Australian edition of Rolling Stone which has been published continuously ever since by a series of independent publishers who took on the franchise along the way. Related publications: High Times 1971-2, The Digger 1973-5
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Revolution 1(1) May 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Phillip Frazer - What's revolting about rock? (editorial)
Chicago - the trial of 'Youth Culture'
Albie Thoms - Underground in Austria and Dusseldorf
Ritchie Yorke - Stephen Stills on Deja Vu
Films - Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant (Al Finney), Zabrinski Point (Robert Garlick)
Ravi Shankar - Link-man
Rob Smyth - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Phillip Frazer - Wendy Saddington interview
Wendy Saddington poster
Ummagumma - the Pink Floyd
Raymond Telford - Jack Bruce interview
Black Magic
Ed Nimmervoll - The kings of rock - BB King and Albert King
Richard Williams - Robert Plant interview
Record reviews
Theatre
Books
On the horizon
Bootleg records. -
Revolution 1(2) June 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Feedback
The Moratorium - An exercise in revolutionary politics
Richard Williams - Beatles' Let It Be - an obituary?
Rob Smyth - A mad wind about to blow - Rob Smyth talks to John Varney
Rob Smyth - Country Joe and the Fish
Ed Nimmervol - Why no underground radio?
Jean Gollan - A few words from the Valentines
Phillip Frazer - Pierre Trudeau - jetsetting reformer
Michael Leunig - The Revolution desert island lift-out poster
Helen Garner - The travelling game
Films - Westerns, Z
David Elfick - interview with Quintessence
Ed Nimmervoll - Frosted idealism.. the Moody Blues
The Basement Tape - Bob Dylan's isolation
Record Reviews
Theatre
Books - Richard Neville Playpower, Gene Marine The Black Panthers. -
Revolution 1(3) July 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Mick Jagger's Death Concert - Altamont - Where does responsibility lie?, from the editors of Rolling Stone
Feedback
On the horizon
Craig Robertson - Woodstock
John Playford - The Mandel Affair
Douglas Kirshner - Repressive pseudo-revolution
Rob Smyth - Retrospective - Cream, Part 1
David Elfick interviews with Taj Mahal and Johnny Winter
Paul Merriam - Downunderground radiooo, eh?
Davild Elfick and Martin Sharp dialogues - Censorship, environment and art
Martin Sharp - The Gas Lash cartoon
A Day in the life of Billy Greef poster
Albie Thoms - Germany's pop capital - Munich
Rob Smyth - A prodigal son returns to his Vegetal Mother - Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson - Macrobiotics: a stomach revolution for western man
Greg Quill - Marian Henderson - Cameo
Buckminster Fuller
How ASIO blocked Hall Greenland from a government job
Record reviews
Films - The Damned
Graeme Blundell - Theatre
Books - Peter Brown
Andrew McIntyre - A conversation with Ravi Shankar
On the Horizon. -
Revolution 1(4) August 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Phillip Frazer - interview with Creedence Clearwater Revival
Feedback
Films - Albie Thoms, Al Finney and Toney Convey - Woodstock and the Australian think police / Ned Kelly a bummer / Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice / Tell them Willie Boy is here / The Liberation of L.Q. Jones
Helene Barnes - Andrew Pulley and the Fort Jackson Eight
Terry Gilmore - The Gurundjii
American Woman advertisement
Zapeye cartoon
Rolling Stone supplement: Ben Fong Torres intervew with David Crosby / Random Notes / Correspondence, love letters and advice
Margo Huxley - Saturday afternoon rap with Mike Rudd of the Spectrum
Books
Cartoon - and the war goes on
Gulliver - Recollectiosn of early realization as the observer
Erich Goode - Dealings in pot: the marijuana market
John Clare - I ride with the friendly drug pedlar / Chicago dealers
Records
Cartoon - man in search of peace
On the horizon -
Revolution 1(5) September 1970
Phillip Frazer
Content:
Brian Wilson cover
Feedback
Norma M. Whittaker - Country Joe
Tony Covery - Lonnie Mack
On the horizon
Margot Huxley - How I learning to stop worrying and love the Tully
Gerald Frape - T.F. Much: a violence trip
Sean Foley - Bat.... but no balls
Zorba - Greek junta agents active in Australia
Mel Bloom - and the heat goes on : interview with Dimitrios Gotsis
Phillip Frazer - The Beach Boys after their first decade
L.A. Free Press - Exclusive: Mark Lane interviews Huey Newton in jail
Rob Smyth - The Lovin' Spoonful in retrospect
Zapeye cartoon
Ian McCausland - Rock in Australia in the 50s
Albie Thoms - Nothing happening today in the English underground - OZ, Ink, Playpower, IT
Albie Thoms - John Mayall in Amsterdam - Youth city of the world!
Rolling Stone supplement: Elvis Presley by Jerry Hopkins; Chicago - the first interracial riot; Random Notes; Ann Arbour Blues; Bruce Harris and Steve Harris - Hot as Sun - the Beatles album no one will ever hear; Michael Lydon - An evening with the Grateful Dead
John Lewallen - Scorched earth: how to make a war last forever - Vietnam
Damien Broderick - R.D. Laing
Ross Wilson - The return of Macroman - Part 2: The stomach revolution
Films - Zabrinski Point, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, Celluloid and the 'Theatre' of Revolution : a radical film festival
Books: Bill Garner - The Vestey Story / Outlaw Blues / Last Exit to Brooklyn
Theatre: Parody of politics - the legend of King O'Malley
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Revolution 1(6) November 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Phillip Frazer - Make revolution in Chile with Country Joe
Feedback
Adrian Rawlins - Sound & magic lightshow by Lindsay Bourke
Greg Quill - Back to Nashville
Helene Barnes - Black Power
Dickie cartoon - Zapeye
Maro Huxley - A tale of Lipp Arthur (band)
Jan Murray - Paul Siebel : a square peg in a round hole, or give me the Siebel life!
Maclean cartoon
Denis Kevans - The Race
Robert Crumb cartoon strip - Whiteman
Margo Huxley - Urban renewal Housing Commission style
Paul Krassner raps with John Wilcock
John Scott - Wallace: The Colonel and the Klansman
Jean Gollan - Cops in cops out - the September moratorium
On the horizon
Hodson cartoon
Rolling Stone supplement: Death of Jimi Hendrix; Jan Hodenfield interview with Eric Clapton; Randon Notes; The Kabouters are coming
Phillip Frazer - The dope deaths: Janis was so happy last month
Dickie cartoon - Zapeye
Demos Krouskos and Helen Barnes - Pigmalion
Spunky and our gang cartoon
Bill Walker - Asher Bilu
Tom dalton and Lynn M.F. Arnold, Only through struggle can there be peace
John Newton - Junkies don't know straight people
Dickie cartoon - Zapeye
John Scott - Pig media - commercial TV and social service programming - why it doesn't work
Rob Smyth - Peter Dickie
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Revolution 1(7) December 1970
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Paranoid cover
Feedback
Michael Watts - Edgar Broughton
Ritchie Yorke - Eric Clapton
Drew Metcalf - Michael Carlos (Tully) talks to Revolution
Dickie cartoon - Zapeye
Abbie Hoffman - Chicago - two years after
Out: a Black manifesto by Dick Gregory
The law and your rights
Highin'
Communes
Steve Hains - Be the hand that feeds you
Robert Crumb cartoon strip - Mr Natural's 719th Meditation
On the horizon
Ewan Tucker - Revolution - why the hold up?
Rolling Stone supplement: Eric Clapton interview; Chet Flippo interview with Janis Joplin's father; Random Notes; Ben Fong Torres interview with Grace Slick and Paul Kantner
Fidel Castro and Lee Lockwood: Has Cuba failed? The full text of Castro's 26th July speech
Dickie cartoon
Films - Underground movies by Albie Thoms
Graeme Dunstan - Getting Straight: a sexual perversion
Books - Black Music by LeRoi Jones
Records -
Revolution 2(1) January 1971
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Feedback
Philip N. West - Depraved / Fascism by any other name is just the same
Richard Liney - Beethoven beyond the blue - an interview with Lindsay Bourke
Steve Hein - On the horizon
Pass the acetate, Ethyl - a food freak explains why he is one
Rolling Stone supplement - Ben Fong-Torres interview with Leon Russell; John Mortland interview with Rod Stewart, + Random Notes
Ed Nimmervol - Gulliver is Slatzilvania
Films - From the French New Wave to Easy Rider by Robert King
Films - Helen Garner - The Naked Bunyip
Cartoon - Eightball Andy by Bob Daly
Warner Brown - thalidomide, cyclamates, & now ... caffeine?
Record reviews -
Revolution 2(2) March 1971
Phillip Frazer
Contents:
Freaks on trial (cover)
On the horizon
We are on trial in 1. Australia, 2. Amerika, 3. Britain
Pete Steedman interviews Richard Neville
Albie Thoms - Rock festival & the youth revolt
Lilian Roxon's New York
Michael Hamel-Green - 'There are two sorts of time' - The student movement in Australia: a history
Philip N. West - The Dope Smoker's Compendium - Part 1
Rolling Stone Supplement - Timothy Crouse - The first family of the new rock - James Taylor; Allan R. Mcdougall - A conversation with Stephen Stills
Jules Siegel - Midnight in Babylon
Tony Convey - Goodnight Mick! - Interview with Mick Rogers
Jean Gollan - Pop with a conscience from the Chain
Law and citizen's rights cartoon
Albie Thoms -Wet Dream Film Festival
Vertigo records advertisements
Dickie - The famous Zapeye's think box cartoon
Records
Book reviews by Peter Draffin -
Revolution 2(3) June 1971
Phillip Frazer
Editorial group: Phillip Frazer, Bob Weis, Geoff Pendlebury, Sebastian Jorgensen, Jim Read, Glenys and Marie. Contents:
Ian McCausland - Chairman Mao (cover art)
Letters
Les Rabinowixz - Let me fill you in on the picture
Vietnam War Song
Rob Smyth - American rock - the shape it's in
Ross Wilson - Rice revival (is rice coming back?)
The Garden of Eaten or 'Blackburns Judgement'
Germaine Greer - Bounce Titty Bounce
Richard Ludbrook - Humping through Asia - The head's guide to Sydney to Istanbul
Chris O'Nial - Human Settlements
Magick Mushrooms
Bob Goodman - Panthers split
Tom Convey - Music from a cultural ghetto ....
Bob's page
Rock reviews
Frangments from an intimate diary
Phillip Frazer - Playpower! Cops don't know the rules (review)
Artwork by Joel Ellenberg
Photographs by Bob Weis and Jim Reed
Heavy German rock is coming
Phillip Adams - Adams' apply - the Saturday page
Lindsay and Lawrence van Gelder - The radicalisation of the superheroes -
Revolution 2(4) August 1971
Phillip Frazer, Colin James, Macy McFarland, and Pat Woolley
Revolution / High Times, volume 2, number 4, August 1971, 48p. Production team: Quadrangle production by Phillip Frazer, Colin James, Macy McFarland and Pat Woolley, with assistance and advice from Bob Daly, Cynthia Dyer-Bennet, Richard Giles, Peter Higgins, Garrie Hutchinson, Tony Irvine, Jules Lewicki, Ian McCausland, Jim Reed and Bob Weis. Front cover artwork is by Ian McCausland and Ernie Althoff. Back cover artwork is by Bob Daly. Drawings in Cobber Comix are by Ernie Althoff, Bob Daly, Ian Sharpe, Pieter Gray,McLean and Kit Walker. Contents:
Letters
Small notes
John Lennon erotic art
The erotic explosion
Dope file
Crash hot crosswords - The druggie's delight, by Freakie Freda
Jules Lewicki - Gay is what you make it
Kids speak
Cobber Comix No.0 - What a groove, Shirley of Katoomba, The continuing story of God, Happy daze in the pond, Customs obscenity seminar Typical Bill and the image gun, In 1954, The death buckets, The bear facts
Food
Pat Maxwell - The emperor's new clothes
Christine Diachishin - Sexual liberation
Syrius - Hungary's top band
Records
Books
Editorial