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It’s Allen Ginsberg’s birthday

Right around midnight on June 4-5, 1968, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles - Bobby Kennedy’s final moments in this photo - and earlier that evening - Kennedy had attended a dinner party with Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski amongst others

Agreed!

Bruce went on to much greater commercial success but his artistic peak was here - absolutely stunning

I’ve known Ken Hunt from a distance for decades; his informative folk magazine Swing 51, his writing in Folk Routes and his BBC Radio presentations - glad that we finally met in a pub!

“I’ve seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.” — Susan Sontag

NYT: do you speak Spanish? Dr. John: Spanish?? I don’t even speak English!!

Lonnie Liston Smith: “There was a bookstore in New York called Weiser's that you would walk into and see John Coltrane or Sun Ra studying texts on religions and philosophies... I realized that everyone wants the same thing: peace, love and harmony."

Released 58 years ago today

What a fabulous band they were - his contributions were stellar.

“I left you on the debris At the Sunday morning market You were sorting through the odds and ends You was looking for a bargain”

Walking in the Wild West End….

June 6, 1979 - this was a game changer for a teenage me - I was already a fan, but these mostly unreleased recordings crawled up inside of me and lived there - they still do.