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This is the first full-length illustrated look at the Zapple label the Beatles experimental label and the most ambitious expression of the Beatles determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement Created by Zapple label manager, Barry Miles, the acclaimed author who set up and planned the list in cooperation with the Beatles, and written in an engaging diary style, this book lets the reader gains unique insights into the lives and working methods of leading literary and counterculture figures of the era Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, the City Lights poets, Ken Weaver, Frank Zappa, and many more. Included are self-contained feature spreads on topics of particular interest to add background detail, and to introduce a change of pace for the reader for example, on the Chelsea Hotel and its artistic inhabitants, and a feature summarizing Miles s relentless traveling schedule.