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Sanders, Ed

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1939-08-17-

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Fug You / Sanders, Edward ; levy da., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-54965-990377
Scope and Contents From the dust jacket cover: "An informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side."Amazon.com: Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg)--as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labelsPrague Post: "This inspiring, enlightening book is a compendium of 1960s American culture enlivened by hilarious stories, unbelievable adventures and, surprisingly, more than a tab of humility"¦It is rare that a memoir of the 1960s...
Dates: 2011