IT INTERNATIONAL TIMES UK UNDERGROUND PAPER NO 45 NOVEMBER 29TH – DECEMBER 12TH 1968

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IT INTERNATIONAL TIMES UK UNDERGROUND PAPER NO 45 NOVEMBER 29TH – DECEMBER 12TH 1968 

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Lennon/Ono Two Virgins ad; Herbert Macuse: What is one-dimensional thought and who’s Marcuse?” by Bob Wistrich; Alternative Italy; Dr John / Captain Beefheart; Grateful Dead; Soft Machine overview; Beatles White Album reviewed; SF Sorrow; The Workless Society; Ralph Mctell; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; Drury Lane Arts Lab split – the different factions elucidate; London Film Festival; Was Hey Jude a message to Dylan..?. “; Tales of Italian Evolution by Bradley Martin; a page from Daevid Allen, late of Soft Machine / Gong; “Putting the ‘free’ into free jazz by Victor Schonfield, centre spread of the life of Krishna plus the second part of Herbert Lomas’ article about the Workless Society; Felix ‘Scorpio’ column…

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IT  INTERNATIONAL TIMES

International Times (it or IT) is the name of various underground newspapers, with the original title founded in London in 1966 and running until October 1973. Editors included HoppyDavid MairowitzRoger Hutchinson,[1] Peter Stansill, Barry MilesJim Haynesand playwright Tom McGrath. Jack Moore, avant-garde writer William Levy and Mick Farren, singer of The Deviants, also edited at various periods.

The paper’s logo is a black-and-white image of Theda Bara, vampish star of silent films. The founders’ intention had been to use an image of actress Clara Bow, 1920s It girl, but a picture of Theda Bara was used by accident and, once deployed, not changed. Paul McCartney donated to the paper [2] as did Allen Ginsberg through his Committee on Poetry foundation.

The IT restarted first as an online archive in 2008, a move arranged by former IT editor and contributor Mike Lesser and financed by Littlewoods heir James Moores[3], and in 2011 relaunched as an online magazine publishing new material, following a suggestion by Lesser to poet and actor Heathcote Williams[4]. Irish poet Niall McDevitt served as the first online editor of IT, a position later held by Heathcote Williams (editor-in-chief) until his death in 2017. Current editor-in-chief is Nick Victor[5]; contributing editors include Elena Caldera, Claire Palmer, David Erdos and Rupert Loydell.

International Times was launched on 15 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at an ‘All Night Rave’ featuring Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. The event promised a ‘Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball’ featuring ‘steel bands, strips, trips, happenings, movies’.[citation needed] The launch was described by Daevid Allen of Soft Machine as “one of the two most revolutionary events in the history of English alternative music and thinking. The IT event was important because it marked the first recognition of a rapidly spreading socio-cultural revolution that had its parallel in the States.”[6]

From April 1967, and for some while later, the police raided the offices of International Times to try, it was alleged, to force the paper out of business. A benefit event labelled The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream took place at Alexandra Palace on 29 April 1967. Bands included Pink Floyd, The Pretty ThingsThe Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, The Move, and Sam Gopal Dream. Despite police harassment, the paper continued to grow, with financial help from Paul McCartney, a personal friend of editor Barry Miles. Published fortnightly, it became the leading British underground paper, its circulation peaking at around 40,000 copies in late 1968/early 1969, before another police raid, along with competition from newer publications such as Time Out led to declining sales and a financial crisis.

In response to another raid on the paper’s offices, London’s alternative press on one occasion succeeded, somewhat astonishingly, in pulling off what was billed as a “reprisal attack” on the police—prompting the Evening Standard headline Raid on the Yard. The paper Black Dwarf published a detailed floor-by-floor guide to Scotland Yard, complete with diagrams, descriptions of locks on particular doors and snippets of overheard conversation in the offices of Special Branch. The anonymous author, or “blue dwarf,” as he styled himself, described how he perused police files, and even claimed to have sampled named brands of whisky in the Commissioner‘s office. A day or two later The Daily Telegraph announced that the “raid” had forced the police to withdraw and re-issue all security passes.[7]

In 1970 a group of people from IT, led by photographer Graham Keen, launched Cyclops, “The First English Adult Comic Paper.”

IT first ceased publication in October 1973, after being convicted for running contact ads for gay men. The name was revived by another publisher in May 1974 for three issues until October. In 1975, Maya, another underground publication, temporarily renamed itself IT – the International Times, until that title closed after the November issue. A new title of the same name launched the following month, continuing until March 1976 when it went into hiatus until resuming in January 1977, ceasing in August of that year.

Publications with the International Times title were published from January to December 1978, and again from April 1979 to June 1980. A single ‘festival issue’ was produced in June 1982. The title was again revived in 1986, with three issues from January to March, the last time a paper publication of the IT name was printed.

In 2016, the 50th anniversary of the first copy of the magazine, further editions of a paper version of IT began to be published starting with issue Zero. These were edited by Heathcote Ruthven.

International Times has also published two books. Both are poetry collections – Royal Babylon by Heathcote Williams, an attack on the British Monarchy, and Porterloo by Niall McDevitt, a book satirising the Conservative Party and registering the counterculture of 2011-12.

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