Barry Miles

Barry Miles (or Miles ) (* 1943 in Cirencester, England ) is a British journalist and writer. He has written numerous biographies and books about personalities of the pop culture of the 1960s wrote, among other things, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Frank Zappa, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, and The Clash. Its most recent publication - a book about Pink Floyd - was released in September 2007.

Life

In the 1960s, Miles was co-owner of situated in London's prestigious Mayfair Indica Gallery, an art gallery, the former counter-culture. This enabled him, with many stars of the meet in the " Swinging London ". Miles made ​​the contact forth between Paul McCartney and people who wanted to form the underground newspaper, The International Times, McCartney has been involved in its creation as a result. Later, Miles headed the short-lived record label Zapple Records, which belonged as a label to Apple Records. In 1998, he wrote Many Years from Now, McCartney's official biography.

Miles and his wife - both of whom lived in 1965 in the London Hanson Street 15 - McCartney did with " hash brownies " known as then pastry was called, the addition of cannabis or cannabis products (hashish ) had been prepared. It was a recipe for " Hash Fudge " - Fudge is a caramel -like candy made ​​from butter, sugar and milk - for the application, which they had found in the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

Miles published the book Hippie, which tells the story of the hippie movement of the 1960s and early 1970s through interviews, quotes and images. Together with Charles Perry and James Henke he wrote I Want to Take You Higher, a documentary about the exhibition of the Cleveland Museum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As an author and journalist Miles was known for his critical attitude towards musicians who supported public views of libertarianism and / or capitalism. Among the artists with whom he came into conflict, therefore, included Neil Peart of Rush and Frank Zappa. The views of such musicians stand in stark contrast to those of the socialists Miles.

Publications

  • Barry Miles / Conny deletion ( translator's ): Pink Floyd - The Early Years. Courtyards, Hannibal Verlag, 2008. ISBN 3-85445-278-0
  • Barry Miles / Michael Kellner ( translator's ): Zappa. Berlin: Rogner and Bernhard at Zweitausendeins, 2005, 2nd edition. ISBN 3-8077-1010-8
  • Barry Miles / Thomas Ritsche ( translator's ): hippies. Munich: Coll. Rolf Heyne, 2005. ISBN 3-89910-257-6
  • Barry Miles / Carl -Ludwig Reichert and Fritz Schneider ( translator's ): Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. Reinbek: Rowohlt Paperback -Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8.
  • Barry Miles / Udo Breger and Esther ( translator's ): William S. Burroughs. Berlin: Ullstein, 1999, ISBN 3-548-35906- X.
  • Allen Ginsberg / Barry Miles (ed.) / Rolf Schwendter: Howl. Hamburg: Kellner, 1998 ISBN 3-89630-105-5.
  • John Lennon / Barry Miles (ed.) / Kathrin Razum ( translator's ): John Lennon - In their own words. Heidelberg: Palmyra, ISBN 3-930378-10-8, 1996.
  • Frank Zappa / Barry Miles (ed.) / Kathrin Razum ( translator's ): Frank Zappa - In their own words. Heidelberg: Palmyra, 1996, Updated for the German -language ed. ISBN 3-930378-08-6
  • Barry Miles / Dieter Moll ( Ed.): The Rolling Stones - The Complete History from 1960 to today. Cologne: Heel, 1995 ISBN 3-89365-459-3.
  • Barry Miles / Udo Breger and Esther Breger ( translator's ): William S. Burroughs - A Biography. Hamburg: Waiter, 1994, ISBN 3-927623-41-5.
  • Barry Miles / Pearce Marchbank (eds.) / Eva Maria Brunner and Rainer Moers ( translator's ): The Beatles, how they see themselves. Bergisch Gladbach: Luebbe, 1981, Dt. First Publication, 2nd edition. ISBN 3-404-60038- X
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