The Daily Telegraph is a broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier. It has a sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, started in 1961. The two newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff, but there is cross-usage of stories. The Telegraph is widely regarded as one of the UK’s principal ‘newspapers of record’ and has been described by the BBC as being “the newspaper of the establishment”. (More from Wikipedia)
The remainder of the year 1970 was a busy one for Mick Farren as he began to move into other endeavors. One of the first items in the obituary on Mick Farren in the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph is the November 1970 disruption of the David Frost program: “Farren led the group of hippies which, in 1970, took over the television studio when the American Yippie Jerry Rubin was appearing live on David Frost’s show. As Rubin rolled and smoked a joint, Farren harangued Frost from the audience while the Oz magazine editor and future media mogul Felix Dennis squirted the enraged television host with a water pistol.”
Along with many other figures from the underground press, Mick Farren moved to the influential New Musical Express (NME) in 1974. Quoting again from the Telegraph obituary: “Allowed free rein to explore the outer reaches of popular culture by its editor, Nick Logan, Farren turned in a series of memorable pieces on people such as the motorbike stunt-rider Evel Knievel and the avant-garde film director Kenneth Anger.
“In the summer of 1976, by which time the Sex Pistols were introducing Britain to punk, Farren’s NME piece headlined ‘The Titanic Sails At Dawn’ [again using a Bob Dylan lyric, this time from one of my all-time favorites, “Desolation Row”] was judged to have caught the mood among the generation of teenagers disaffected by giant stadium acts like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.”
(March 2014/1)
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In a 2005 reminiscence by Maureen Cleave, called “The John Lennon I Knew” (published in The Daily Telegraph), she recalls a 1978 interview (as reported in Wikipedia) where Lennon said: “If I hadn’t said [that] and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.”
(September 2014)
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One might think that the name Black Russian naturally arose from a Russian band being signed to a black record label, and there is also a drink called a Black Russian, composed of vodka mingled with coffee liqueur; but it wasn’t really like that. In an Associated Press interview that was printed in the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Natasha Kapustin said: “It means we are black Russians, not red Russians. And we were black sheep.” Serge Kapustin added: “And there is our influence from black rhythm ’n’ blues and soul music. ‘Black Russian’ became our nickname in underground circles in Moscow.”
(April 2015/1)
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