Elastic Oz Band
The controversial cover of OZ Sydney, No.6, February 1964
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| Editor | Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, Martin Sharp |
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| Staff writers | Peter Grose, Robert Hughes, Bob Ellis |
| Categories | Satirical humour |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 6,000 |
| Founder | Richard Neville |
| Year founded | 1963 |
| First issue | 1 April 1963 |
| Final issue | 1969 |
| Country | Australia |
| Based in | Sydney |
| Language | English |
| Website | ro |
OZ London, No.3, May 1967. Cover by Martin Sharp
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| Editor | Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, later Felix Dennis |
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| Staff writers | Germaine Greer, Philippe Mora, Lillian Roxon, Michael Leunig, Angelo Quattrocchi, Barney Bubbles, David Widgery |
| Photographer | Robert Whitaker |
| Categories | Satirical humour |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 80,000 (c. 1970) |
| Founder | Richard Neville, Martin Sharp, and Jim Anderson |
| Year founded | 1967 |
| First issue | 1967 |
| Final issue | 1973 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
OZ was an underground alternative magazine. First published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963, a second version appeared in London, England from 1967 and is better known.
The original Australian OZ took the form of a satirical magazine published between 1963 and 1969, while the British incarnation was a "psychedelic hippy" magazine which appeared from 1967 to 1973. Strongly identified as part of the underground press, it was the subject of two celebrated obscenity trials, one in Australia in 1964 and the other in the United Kingdom in 1971. On both occasions the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal after initially being found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms. An earlier 1963 obscenity charge was dealt with expeditiously when, upon the advice of a solicitor, the three editors pleaded guilty.
The central editor throughout the magazine's life in both Australia and Britain was Richard Neville. Co-editors of the Sydney version were Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp. Co-editors of the London version were Jim Anderson and, later, Felix Dennis.
The original Australian editorial team included university students Neville, Walsh and Sharp, and Peter Grose, a cadet journalist from Sydney's Daily Mirror. Other early contributors included art critic Robert Hughes and future author Bob Ellis. Neville, Walsh and Sharp had each been involved in student papers at their respective Sydney tertiary campuses: Neville had edited the UNSW student magazine Tharunka, Walsh edited its University of Sydney counterpart Honi Soit and Sharp had contributed to the short-lived student magazine The Arty Wild Oat while studying at the National Art School in East Sydney. Influenced by the radical comedy of Lenny Bruce, Neville and friends decided to found a "magazine of dissent".
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