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By the time, the album was completed Miles and Brautigan communicated to each other only through their respective lawyers.

Miles's friendship with Brautigan ended when Miles became involved in an affair with Brautigan's girlfriend Valerie Estes. While temporarily living in California, Miles produced an album of poetry readings by Richard Brautigan entitled Listening to Richard Brautigan for Zapple.

Miles became the de facto manager of the Apple's short-lived Zapple Records label in 1969. Pink Floyd headlined the event other artists included: Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Arthur Brown, jazz-rock group Soft Machine, Tomorrow and The Pretty Things. It was a multi-artist event, featuring poets, artists and musicians. With John Hopkins and Dave Howson, Miles organised The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, a concert on 29 April 1967 at Alexandra Palace to raise funds for International Times. Miles brought McCartney into contact with people who wanted to start International Times, which McCartney helped to fund. įollowing the International Poetry Incarnation, Miles established the Indica Gallery and Bookshop, allowing him to meet many of the stars of the Swinging London social scene.

In 1965, Miles and his wife, the former Susan Crane, introduced Paul McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge that they had found in The Alice B. In 1965 Allen Ginsberg gave a reading at Better Books that led to the International Poetry Incarnation, a seminal event co-organised by Miles. Godwin was friends with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with whom he would exchange Penguin books for City Lights publications. In the 1960s, Miles worked at Better Books, which was managed by Tony Godwin. He wrote for the Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times, so not entirely leftist. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper International Times. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in leftist newspapers such as The Guardian. Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture.