Simon A. Morrison is currently researching a PhD within the School of Music at Leeds University, looking at various counter cultures, including the Beat Generation and Rock Music, but with particular reference to club culture.
Alongside that, Simon has worked within the music industry for the last 15 years. Author of the book Discombobulated – a collection of Gonzo columns penned for DJmagazine and published in the UK and US by Headpress – Simon has reported on nightclubs everywhere from Beijing to Kosovo. He has also produced and presented TV and radio, edited Ministry of Sound’s Ibiza magazine and continues to write freelance and run a music-based PR consultancy in the north of England.
Please allow me to introduce CBGB Was My High School by GK Stritch. The book was influenced by The Beats and provides anecdotes of my own minor, but valued, interactions with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Borroughs, as a young person in New York City. The ISBN is 978-0-9833711-1-3, Full Court Press, 2011. It is available at the British Library, St Pancras, London, England, and can be found online amazon.co.uk, etc.
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