Everything the establishment hated most was in Oz,the enfant terrible of the underground press. Now, 45 years after its famous obscenity trial, or the entire archive has been published on the webIt was 1967: birth of the Summer of worship as well as a magazine that would become the icon – and the enfant terrible – of the underground press. Produced in a basement flat off Notting Hill Gate,Oz was soon renowned for psychedelic covers by pop artist Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crumb, and radical feminist manifestos by Germaine Greer,and anything else that would send the establishment apoplectic. By August 1971, it had been the subject of the longest obscenity trial in British history. It doesn’t gather more 60s than that.
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Source: theguardian.com