Echoes of the Underground

Echoes of the Underground is a 2014 book by South African musician Lee Harris, published by Barncott Press. It is a collection of ‘underground’ writings by Harris, the majority of which were originally published in the alternative press of the 1960s and 1970s, primarily in the UK; in addition to venues such as International Times, Oz, Home Grown and ‘Other Scenes’. The collection includes writings on the Beat Generation, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, the 1960s theatre revolution, and the South African apartheid era. (Lee was one of the few white members of the African National Congress and met Nelson Mandela).

Also included are rare interviews with beat poet Michael McClure, the director of the musical Hair; Tom O'Horgan, the man who ‘turned on’ Timothy Leary by giving him some L.S.D; Michael Hollingshead; and Harry Shapiro, author of Waiting for the Man and Electric Gypsy, the biography of Jimi Hendrix.