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1	Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Being a pop star and having a dozen girls waiting outside your front door is a frequent musician's fantasy. However, if they're actually waiting for your more-famous housemate, who happens to be Paul McCartney, it can wreak havoc on the ego. Such was Peter Asher's experience when McCartney dated Asher's sister Jane, one of the many minor yet ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $10.88! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Greatest Album Covers of All Time more books like this by Barry Miles, Johnny Morgan, Grant Scott add to wishlist 2006 will see the 50th anniversary of the LP chart. At a time when music is increasingly being downloaded and uploaded, with people creating play lists on portable MP3 players served from web sites, the art of packaging music is being lost. For the past five decades musicians have displayed their work inside packages that were often as integral as ... see all copies from $4.85! new only from $11.27! \| SVS
3	Hippie more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Barry Miles's ultra-hip 1960s credentials include friendships with such iconic movers and shakers as Paul McCartney, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg (he has previously published books on all three), as well as co-ownership of London's then-countercultural center the Indica Gallery. With HIPPIE, a wide-ranging survey of one of the most ... see all copies from $6.97! new only from $8.61! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Peace: 50 Years of Protest more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist One of the most instantly recognized images in the world--the peace sign--celebrates its 50th anniversary. Miles uses a combination of research and personal recall to recount the evolution of this iconic image. Illustrated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| SVS
5	The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist THE BEAT HOTEL chronicles six years of expatriate Beat living, when Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso inhabited a seedy hotel on the Left Bank in Paris, writing, experimenting with psychedelic drugs, and indulging in the sexual freedom available to them in France. The book is full of juicy gossip, but it also considers seriously the impact of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.68! \| first editions
6	Ginsberg: A Biography more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist In part thanks to early friendships with renegades such as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, and his publication of the electrifying and brilliant 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles, drawing both on his long friendship with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Zappa: A Biography more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Ten years after his death, Frank Zappa continues to influence popular culture. Now comes his definitive biography written by a bestselling author who knew Zappa personally and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Howl : original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, percusor texts & bibliography more books like this by Allen Ginsberg, Barry Miles add to wishlist A deluxe hardcover commemorative facsimile edition of this groundbreaking American classic celebrates the 40th anniversary of the prophetic masterpiece that revolutionized American poetry and American consciousness. see all copies from $5.60! new only from $8.57! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Charles Bukowski more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and the hookers, his beat the racetracks and strip joints and his inspiration a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses, offices and factories. It was in the evenings that he would put ... see all copies from $2.55! new only from $2.55! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Beat Collection more books like this by Barry Miles (Editor) add to wishlist The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today. Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| first editions
11 view cover	Trevor Chamberlain. England and Beyond. a Celebration of Sixty Years of Painting by (Chamberlain Trevor) Hall S & Miles B add to wishlist see all copies from $49.69! new only from $55.12!
12 view cover	Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Drawing on Kerouac's close friendship and conversations with Ginsberg and Burroughs, the author offers provocative new insights into the world of the Beat Generation and its exuberant king. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts With Fun by Barry Lane; Illustrator-Miles Bodimeade add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00!
14 view cover	Zappa more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Ten years after his death, rebel, performer, and true musical visionary Frank Zappa continues to influence popular culture. "Zappa" is a brilliant and sweeping portrait, written by one of rock music's most respected biographers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.96! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Beatles: A Diary: An Intimate Day by Day History more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist Barry Miles provides an insider's chronicle of the day-by-day history of the legendary Beatles. An intimate of the Beatles' Sixties circle, Miles details 30 years of the band's stories as they unfolded, including band members' personal comments, disputes, liaisons, and successes. The Beatles: A Diary includes hundreds of color and b&w ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $19.69! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Beatles Diary: An Intimate Day by Day History more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist This small format version of a milestone book is a detailed chronology of gigs, venues, quotes, and memorable dates relating to The Beatles. see all copies from $2.10! new only from $4.52!
17 view cover	The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer more books like this by Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger add to wishlist Published in Johnny Mercer's centennial year, this volume in the Complete Lyrics series contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Includes the words to such classics as Skylark and That Old Black Magic. see all copies from $38.19! new only from $38.19! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist THE BEAT HOTEL chronicles six years of expatriate Beat living, when Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso inhabited a seedy hotel on the Left Bank in Paris, writing, experimenting with psychedelic drugs, and indulging in the sexual freedom available to them in France. The book is full of juicy gossip, but it also considers seriously the impact of the ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $3.30! \| first editions \| SVS
19	William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible: A Portrait more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--"the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius" (Norman Mailer). Photos. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20	David Bowie Black Book more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
21	Pink Floyd: 21st Anniversary Edition more books like this by Barry Miles, Andy Mabbett add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.49! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-63 more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist The Beat Hotel was home to a host of key figures of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 60s. It was also an unbridled hive of creativity, literary experimentation and drug-crazed extremity. During this period, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" went on trial for obscenity, William Burroughs was inspired to finish "Naked Lunch", the cut-up novel was ... see all copies from $3.01! new only from $3.54! \| first editions
23 view cover	Pink Floyd: The Early Years more books like this by Barry Miles add to wishlist This is an authentic and compelling story of the group that gave alternative London its first real soundtrack and launched on the rock world a radical combination of music, light shows and pyrotechnic stage effects, a revealing diary of Pink Floyd's daily routine, from their roots in Cambridge to cult status in Sixties London. Author Barry Miles ... see all copies from $8.73! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Seashore Chronicles: Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Island more books like this by Brooks M Barnes (Editor), Barry R Truitt (Editor), William W Warner (Foreword by) add to wishlist Over 20 accounts from travellers have been collated by the editors of this book to give a flavour of the history of the Virginia Barrier Islands. Readers learn of the fishermen and herdsmen who settled on the islands; salvage operations; the American Civil War; and the resort hotels of the 1890s. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $17.14! \| first editions
25	William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953-73: Unlocking Inspector Lee's Word Hoard more books like this by Joe Maynard, Barry Miles (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions

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