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''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 current editorial team include Mike Lesser, Robert Tascher, Heathcote Williams, Elena Caldera, Claire Palmer, Nick Victor, Dave Cooper, Rupert Loydell and others. The paper's logo was 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. ==History== ''International Times'' was launched on 14 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at a gig featuring Pink Floyd. The event promised a 'Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball and featured Soft Machine, 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."〔(''Lost In the Woods'' by Julian Palacios (May 1998) ) Retrieved 8 August 2004〕 From April 1967, and for some while later, the police raided the offices of ''International Times'' to try, it was alleged, to force the paper out of business. A benefit event labelled ''The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream'' took place at Alexandra Palace on 29 April 1967. Bands included Pink Floyd, The Pretty Things, Savoy Brown, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, The Move, and Sam Gopal Dream. In response to another raid on the paper's offices, London's alternative press on one occasion succeeded, somewhat astonishingly, in pulling off what was billed as a "reprisal attack" on the police—prompting the ''Evening Standard'' headline ''Raid on the Yard''. The paper ''Black Dwarf'' published a detailed floor-by-floor guide to Scotland Yard, complete with diagrams, descriptions of locks on particular doors and snippets of overheard conversation in the offices of Special Branch. The anonymous author, or "blue dwarf," as he styled himself, described how he perused police files, and even claimed to have sampled named brands of whisky in the Commissioner's office. A day or two later ''The Daily Telegraph'' announced that the "raid" had forced the police to withdraw and re-issue all security passes.〔''Play Power'', Richard Neville, Jonathan Cape, London, 1970.〕 In 1970 a group of people from ''IT'', led by photographer Graham Keen, launched ''Cyclops'', "The First English Adult Comic Paper." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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