Eric B. wrote:
> Saki, do you have "Many Years From Now"?
>
> Could you pull the paragraph on "Ian Iachimoe" for me? I can't seem to
> find a copy in my local bookstore.
>
> TIA
Here are two:
P. 238: "Paul was correct in thinking that the interviews with musicians
would enable IT [International Times, published by Barry Miles and John
Hopkins] to get record-company ads, but the paper was still broke and
often unable to pay the printer or its staff. Paul helped out
financially, and was thanked by being given a credit in the staff box
under the name 'Ian Iachimoe'. This was the 'secret' name that Paul
suggested his friends use when writing to him to make their letters
stand out from all the fan mail. It was the sound of his own name played
backward on a tape recorder. He even used it himself: the original
manuscript of 'Paperback Writer', which was written in the form of a
letter, ends with 'Yours sincerely, Ian Iachimoe'."
P. 297: "In March 1966 Paul ran a competition in a little underground
magazine called the Global Moon Edition of the Long Hair Times, the
direct foreruner of International Times, edited by Miles and produced by
John Hopkins on his own hand-cranked offset-litho machine. Paul, using
his pseudonym Ian Iachimoe, offered twenty guineas for a film script...."
Is this what you were looking for?
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