[audiobook] Volpone or; The Fox: quot;There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.quot; by Ben Jonson at Arts-Photography

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The 1960s were a period of radical cultural; social; and political upheaval in the United States and around the globe; yet in just three years; between 1969 and 1972; Village Voice "Scenes" columnist; WPLJ FM radio host; and cult figure Howard Smith got to the heart of it all by talking it outmdash;both on andmdash;off the record. As famous as those who passed through the airwaves; Smith encapsulated the end of an era through personal conversations and hard-hitting interviews with Mick Jagger; Frank Zappa; Andy Warhol; Buckminster Fuller; leaders of the feminist movement and the Gay Liberation Front; a NARC agent; John Lennon and Yoko Ono; and scores of other iconic and influential personalities; including musicians; artists; filmmakers; actors; writers; politicians; and social activists; from countercultural luminaries to everyday revolutionaries and everyone in between.The Smith Tapes transcribes; for the first time ever; sixty-one of those recorded sessions; from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years. Edited by documentary film writer and director/producer Ezra Bookstein; this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured; and contains raw and unscripted talks that take you right into the midst of a transformative cultural and musical explosion.