{"id":178,"date":"2019-10-10T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:20:49","slug":"the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles and the Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although its origins are somewhat obscure, the very name of the Beatles (changed by John Lennon from the \u201cBeetles\u201d) seems to be a sly allusion to the Beat culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. As an art student in the late 1950s, John Lennon edited a homemade magazine called the <em>Daily Howl<\/em>, and he eagerly read Jack Kerouac\u2019s <em>On the Road<\/em>. Dubbed the \u201cwriting Beatle,\u201d Lennon would publish his own book of verse in 1964. He later stated that had he not become a musician and songwriter, he might have been a \u201cBeat Poet.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Lennon and Paul McCartney formed lasting friendships with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Beat artist Wallace Berman and Burroughs appear on the <em>Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> album cover. Brion Gysin and Burroughs\u2019s innovative cut-up techniques also may inform the tape-splicing sequences featured in the album. Ian Sommerville, who was Burroughs\u2019s lover and assistant and who had been technically involved in Burroughs\u2019s cut-up tape experiments, did sound engineering work for Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the years prior to the album\u2019s production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beatles USA Ltd. Program<\/strong>, 1966<br>Collection of Debra Hess Norris<br>Signed by John Lennon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Lennon<br><strong>In His own Write<\/strong>, 1964<br>J. Cape, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Times<\/strong>, Jan. 16-29, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aram Saroyan<br><strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, 1970<br>reprinted edition 2000. Granary Books, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beatles<br><strong>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/strong>, 1967<br>Private collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although its origins are somewhat obscure, the very name of the Beatles (changed by John Lennon from the \u201cBeetles\u201d) seems to be a sly allusion to the Beat culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. As an art student in the late 1950s, John Lennon edited a homemade magazine called the Daily Howl, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}