International Times
The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream issue (Apr. 1967)
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| Editor | various |
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| Categories | Newspaper |
| Frequency | fortnightly |
| First issue | 1966 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.internationaltimes.it |
International Times (it or IT) is the name of various underground newspapers, with the original title founded in London in 1966. Editors included Hoppy, David Mairowitz, Peter Stansill, Barry Miles, Jim Haynes and playwright Tom McGrath. Jack Moore, avant-garde writer William Levy and Mick Farren, singer of The Deviants, also edited at various periods. The IT restarted as an online archive in 2008. In 2011 it relaunched as on online magazine publishing new material. Irish poet Niall McDevitt was the first online editor of IT, a position now held by artist Claire Palmer. The current editorial team includes Mike Lesser (1943 - 2015), Heathcote Williams, Elena Caldera, Claire Palmer, Nick Victor, David Erdos, Julie Goldsmith, Robert Montgomery, Max Reeves, Keith Rodway, Rupert Loydell and others.
The paper's logo is a black-and-white image of Theda Bara, vampish star of silent films. The founders' intention had been to use an image of actress Clara Bow, 1920s It girl, but a picture of Theda Bara was used by accident and, once deployed, not changed. Paul McCartney donated to the paper as did Allen Ginsberg through his Committee on Poetry foundation.
International Times was launched on 15 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at an 'All Night Rave' featuring Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. The event promised a 'Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball and featured steel bands, strips, trips, happenings, movies. The launch was described by Daevid Allen of Soft Machine as "one of the two most revolutionary events in the history of English alternative music and thinking. The IT event was important because it marked the first recognition of a rapidly spreading socio-cultural revolution that had its parallel in the States."
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