If I don't post it now, I'll forget. For all of you into beat poetry, here's Allen Ginsberg reading Howl and Jack Kerouac reading his October in the Railroad Earth (with Steve Allen on the 88s). It's mind blowing to think that Howl was such a controversial piece when Ginsberg first read it in public in 1955. (The reading below is from 1959). It had a way of getting under the skin of straights, that I understand, but banning it? Come on, that's like banning people for thinking.
~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~
Listen:
Allen Ginsberg - Howl mp3 at Internet Archive
Jack Kerouac - October in the Railroad Earth mp3 at Internet Archive
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