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Rock and the Beat Generation

RBP contributor Simon Warner's Substack newsletter devoted to the musical legacy of the Beats.

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Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments, Pete Brown's Piblokto, Cream: Pete Brown: Superstar poet and Cream of the crop

Obituary by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 20 May 2023

BACK IN 2010, in the heart of the most bitter January I can recall, I visited the home of Pete Brown with a BBC radio ...

Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac: The Legend of Zimmerman

Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 24 September 2021

Bob Dylan delighted in the tales he could spin to embroider his early biography and Jack Kerouac adapted his own life for fictional purposes. ...

Jack Kerouac: The many sounds of Kerouac's On the Road

Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 2 February 2022

Kerouac's most famous book is obviously first and foremost a written text. But the refrains of music ripple through its rolling adventures and there are ...

Tom Waits: Alex Harvey: Song Noir – Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles (Reaktion Books)

Book Review by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, July 2022

I REVIEWED Rickie Lee Jones' vividly illuminating autobiography Last Chance Texaco in these pages earlier this year, applying a Beat microscope to her always energetic, ...

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