Richard Neville Co-Founder of Magazine Oz dies at 74...

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The Australian writer and co-founder of the Sixties counter-culture magazine Oz, Richard Neville has died aged 74.
I remember the outrage against both Oz and Schoolkids Oz in the early Seventies. When the soon to be famous author John Mortimer lead the defence council in the obscenities trial against Neville and his cohorts. though all sentenced to prison sentences of fifteen months each the verdict was later quashed.
Neville was always appearing on TV and the radio both as a guest on chat shows and a critic.
Came over as a decent bloke as well as a critic of authority.
I used to confuse him with Lol Crème out of 10CC!
RIP.

Richard Neville dies aged 74: Oz magazine co-founder 'has gone on to his next adventure'

 

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I worked on a film adaption of the Oz obscenity trial that was never released. Neville was one of those people who never escaped the event early in their life that defined him.

 

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I have just seen this thread from a few years ago.

OZ magazine

 

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I worked on a film adaption of the Oz obscenity trial that was never released. Neville was one of those people who never escaped the event early in their life that defined him.

I cannot remember the film, but have read both online and on the thread from urban above that it received some poor reviews.
I think Oz magazine would sit nicely with my collection of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers collection.

 

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You cannot remember it because it was never released.

 

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I cannot remember the film, but have read both online and on the thread from urban above that it received some poor reviews.
I think Oz magazine would sit nicely with my collection of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers collection.

Milk and Cheese

 

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You cannot remember it because it was never released.

That explains that quandary.
Thanks, I am getting on a bit.

 

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You cannot remember it because it was never released.

There was an excellent stage play. My memory may be playing tricks but ISTR Marty Feldman appearing as himself.

 

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I had brief correspondence with him many years ago - mutual acquaintance. Decent and generous in praise for others. RIP, Richard.

 

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This is useful information for anyone researching the Sixties Counter- culture regarding the digitisation of Oz magazine.


Here is the site.
OZ magazine, Sydney | Historical & Cultural Collections | University of Wollongong

 

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OZ magazine was really important to me late 60' early 70's. It was seen as radical and anti-establishment now they just look a bit foolish.

My first arrest was when I was 16 on an OZ demo during the trial, My brother had been shouting the 'give us an F give us a U' mantra and got busted, I grabbed hold of him and they busted me to.

At Bow Street nick they punched and kicked me then pushed me into a glass door breaking it and cutting my arm which I had managed to put up to protect my face. Then they were going to add damaging police property to the charge then realised they'd have to explain what happened in the police station so I just got done for obstruction.

My brother was on probation for some smash and grab he'd done in Devon and was due to travel to Turkey with his girlfriend in a couple of weeks (in fact he had a tent with him that he'd just picked up from Black's, there was also some discussion about doing him for carrying an offensive weapon, the tent had metal poles ) so we pleaded guilty the next day and got £3 fine each.

A lawyer from OZ turned up and said we should plead not guilty and they would defend us gratis, tempting to me but Bro just wanted it to disappear. Because it was a joint charge I was done at Bow Street Court even though I was only 16.

I later got to know Viv Berger who did the infamous Rupert Bear cartoon strip in Schoolkids OZ. As a slightly interesting aside, he lived in a basement flat in Steele's Road off Haverstock Hill in a house that was later bought by a well known popular music star and renamed 'Supernova Heights'

ETA: RIP Richard

 

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This morning I read this in the i

'During the Oz trial a witness, George Melly, was asked by Justice Michael Argy to explain cunnilingus to the jury.
''They may not have done Latin''
the judge explained.'

 

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i got his book playpower some years ago, in there there's a list of free things you used to be able to get in london, free newspapers, books etc etc. all gone now of course. also mentioned that kensington & chelsea libraries used to have a very good magic collection: local authorities in london had divided up the dewey classification and then each borough developed a specialist collection in part so with a bit of travelling londoners had access to a great collection of books. so, in unexpected ways learnt a lot from rn

rip

 

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This morning I read this in the i

'During the Oz trial a witness, George Melly, was asked by Justice Michael Argy to explain cunnilingus to the jury.
''They may not have done Latin''
the judge explained.'

Also a dildo was described as a "imitation male penis" to which John Mortmier replied "I think m'lud the male part of that sentence is redundant"