Daze of OZ

OZ magazine founder and editor, Richard Neville. Richard's present day column, "Diary Of A Futurist" remains a cutting-edge read on the web

Artist Martin Sharp was one of the principal psychedelicists in the UK and a founder of the legendard OZ magazine. This one is a recent photo!

Caroline Coon was one of the founders of the counterculture charity Release which shared offices with Oz in the Princedale Road area of Holland Park, London

Caroline Coon's contemporary painting depicting the Oz Three at the time of the trial

Felix Dennis, now a sucessful publisher, was the British member of the original Oz Three

Journalist Neil Tennant was an Oz contributor before morphing into a Pet Shop Boy

Rosie Boycott (now) and Germaine Greer (above,then) were active feminists involved with Oz. Germaine was still writing "The Female Eunuch" whilst Rosie went on to found "Spare Rib"

Founder Richard Neviile's account of the Oz Era is recollected in his book "Hippie Hippie Shake"

The trial of Oz made the front page of every British newspaper - this one is from The Times in the days before Murdock got his hands on it