Simon Warner
@simon-warner.bsky.social
Popular music researcher with interests in the Beat Generation writers, Founding Editor of the website Rock and the Beat Generation
We interview Ron Rosenbaum about his recent Bob Dylan biography Things Have Changed. Rosenbaum has some critical words regarding Dylan's relationship with Allen Ginsberg. Rock and the Beat Generation was keen to find out more.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We interview Ron Rosenbaum about his recent Bob Dylan biography Things Have Changed. Rosenbaum has some critical words regarding Dylan's relationship with Allen Ginsberg. Rock and the Beat Generation was keen to find out more.
simonwarner.substack.com/p/interview-49…
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60 years today a classic SF photoshoot saw Beat poet Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan snapped in Jack Kerouac Alley. Poets & critics, historians & rock writers, explain the reasons for this transgenerational summit. Rock & the Beat Generation reports…
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December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
60 years today a classic SF photoshoot saw Beat poet Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan snapped in Jack Kerouac Alley. Poets & critics, historians & rock writers, explain the reasons for this transgenerational summit. Rock & the Beat Generation reports…
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Ron Rosenbaum's bold & provocative Things Have Changed brings numerous fresh angles to Dylan’s oft-reported story. The writer has a very negative take on Allen Ginsberg's influence. Rock & the Beat Generation Editor Simon Warner weighs up the evidence…
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November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ron Rosenbaum's bold & provocative Things Have Changed brings numerous fresh angles to Dylan’s oft-reported story. The writer has a very negative take on Allen Ginsberg's influence. Rock & the Beat Generation Editor Simon Warner weighs up the evidence…
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At last, a store for the tramp about town…
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
At last, a store for the tramp about town…
Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris reviews The Bunker Diaries, Stewart Meyer’s account of life in WSB’s legendary Manhattan headquarters for Rock & the Beat Generation. The dealer & would-be writer offers intimate insights into that underground enclave…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris reviews The Bunker Diaries, Stewart Meyer’s account of life in WSB’s legendary Manhattan headquarters for Rock & the Beat Generation. The dealer & would-be writer offers intimate insights into that underground enclave…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Soul searching: In the week that the English monarchy broke its 500-year-old golden rule – don’t go praying with no popes – a packed congregation filled Halifax Minster to worship at the feet of a Luther Vandross impersonator to absorb a little gospel truth. Postmodernity indeed.
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Soul searching: In the week that the English monarchy broke its 500-year-old golden rule – don’t go praying with no popes – a packed congregation filled Halifax Minster to worship at the feet of a Luther Vandross impersonator to absorb a little gospel truth. Postmodernity indeed.
70 yrs ago today Ginsberg's 'Howl' was given its premiere at the 6 Gallery in SF. David S. Wills’ book about the event is Remarkable Collection of Angels. He talks to Rock & the Beat Generation about the challenges of writing the title…
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Interview #45: David S. Wills
New 'Howl' history further unpacked
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October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
70 yrs ago today Ginsberg's 'Howl' was given its premiere at the 6 Gallery in SF. David S. Wills’ book about the event is Remarkable Collection of Angels. He talks to Rock & the Beat Generation about the challenges of writing the title…
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As the 70th anniv of ‘Howl’’s premiere nears, David S. Wills’ investigation into the landmark 6 Gallery reading, A Remarkable Collection of Angels, is scrutinised for Rock & the Beat Generation by our Chief Book Reviewer & Ginsberg expert Jonah Raskin…
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Book review #55: A Remarkable Collection of Angels
Legend reprised, myths busted in 'Howl' history
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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As the 70th anniv of ‘Howl’’s premiere nears, David S. Wills’ investigation into the landmark 6 Gallery reading, A Remarkable Collection of Angels, is scrutinised for Rock & the Beat Generation by our Chief Book Reviewer & Ginsberg expert Jonah Raskin…
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Joyce Johnson, Kerouac’s girlfriend as he made his breakthrough with On the Road, turns 90 today. The woman, who would go on to become a successful writer herself, talks jazz & folk to Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner in an exclusive interview…
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Interview #44: Joyce Johnson
Beat legend turns 90, talks music
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September 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Joyce Johnson, Kerouac’s girlfriend as he made his breakthrough with On the Road, turns 90 today. The woman, who would go on to become a successful writer herself, talks jazz & folk to Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner in an exclusive interview…
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Megafungi: Paperback book just a marker but four huge mushrooms on our lawn. What are they, I wonder?
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Megafungi: Paperback book just a marker but four huge mushrooms on our lawn. What are they, I wonder?
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September 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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As the latest Dylan Bootleg Series surfaces, the new Mojo cover mount CD puns on the recent Bob biodrama…
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As the latest Dylan Bootleg Series surfaces, the new Mojo cover mount CD puns on the recent Bob biodrama…
Melody Maker, 1968…
August 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Melody Maker, 1968…
Why doesn’t Trump concentrate on exerting maximum sanctions on Putin’s evil empire rather than fighting the Fed and taking on its only black woman governor? Crush Russia’s economy not your own, you megalomaniac fool.
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why doesn’t Trump concentrate on exerting maximum sanctions on Putin’s evil empire rather than fighting the Fed and taking on its only black woman governor? Crush Russia’s economy not your own, you megalomaniac fool.
Guardian headline: ‘Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security’
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
August 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Guardian headline: ‘Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security’
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
Allen Ginsberg's 1965 Prague adventure is a key episode in Brian K. Goodman's recent title The Nonconformists. Jonah Raskin, Rock and the Beat Generation's Chief Book Reviewer, finds much to fascinate in the churning waters of the Cold War conversation...
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Book review #53: The Nonconformists
Beats, jazz and rock in a Cold climate
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August 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Allen Ginsberg's 1965 Prague adventure is a key episode in Brian K. Goodman's recent title The Nonconformists. Jonah Raskin, Rock and the Beat Generation's Chief Book Reviewer, finds much to fascinate in the churning waters of the Cold War conversation...
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Might Dylan have attended the famed Kesey/Kerouac Prankster bash in NYC in summer 1964? In this speculative account, Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner engages the collective minds of Beat experts to consider the evidence…
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Kesey party...but why no Dylan?
When Beat stars joined Pranksters' NY bash
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August 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Might Dylan have attended the famed Kesey/Kerouac Prankster bash in NYC in summer 1964? In this speculative account, Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner engages the collective minds of Beat experts to consider the evidence…
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Best (real) band name for a while:
Near Jazz Experience
Near Jazz Experience
August 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Best (real) band name for a while:
Near Jazz Experience
Near Jazz Experience
Couldn’t Putin be legitimately arrested for his war crimes when he enters the United States on Friday. There is certainly a legal bounty on his head.
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Couldn’t Putin be legitimately arrested for his war crimes when he enters the United States on Friday. There is certainly a legal bounty on his head.
Stewart Lee, stand-up comic, presents a new Radio 4 series What Happened to Counter-Culture? Heading this queue of disruptives are the Beats with Ginsberg christening this very production. Simon Warner reviews the show at Rock & the Beat Generation
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August 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Stewart Lee, stand-up comic, presents a new Radio 4 series What Happened to Counter-Culture? Heading this queue of disruptives are the Beats with Ginsberg christening this very production. Simon Warner reviews the show at Rock & the Beat Generation
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Of interest? A snapshot of our current home page at Rock and the Beat Generation…
July 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Of interest? A snapshot of our current home page at Rock and the Beat Generation…
Legendary Beat historian Miles is the subject of the latest interview at Rock & the Beat Generation, as the famed Albert Hall reading, the International Poetry Incarnation, commemorates its 60th anniv on this very day. Leon Horton asks the questions…
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Interview #38: Miles
Albert Hall extravaganza turns 60
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June 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Legendary Beat historian Miles is the subject of the latest interview at Rock & the Beat Generation, as the famed Albert Hall reading, the International Poetry Incarnation, commemorates its 60th anniv on this very day. Leon Horton asks the questions…
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Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager, contributes a third article to Rock and the Beat Generation, this time focusing on the effect the Beatles' emergence in the US had on the Greenwich Village folk scene…
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Terri Thal #3: Folkies and the Beatles
When British Invasion met Greenwich Village
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May 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager, contributes a third article to Rock and the Beat Generation, this time focusing on the effect the Beatles' emergence in the US had on the Greenwich Village folk scene…
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Even VAR can’t save Lineker
May 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Even VAR can’t save Lineker