"Hippie Hippie Shake” MARTIN SHARP Jimi Hendrix

Poster “Hippie Hippie Shake”

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE

One of the original promotional posters for the book launch of Richard Neville’s “Hippie Hippie Shake”

at the Rocks in Sydney. Design by Martin Sharp, Sydney Australia 1995.

The poster is vibrant, in good condition, with slight creasing on the outside edge on one side.

'Painting by Martin Sharp' in the lower left hand corner

Size 600 x 830cm

  The Jimi Hendrix image is slightly out of focus to emphasise the book title and quote “It’s all that the YOUNG can do for the OLD to shock them and keep them up to date” George Bernard Shaw.

This famous book has come to life in an upcoming British film based on the book.

Richard Neville was editor of the Australian satirical magazine Oz, and chronicles his relationship with girlfriend Louise Ferrier, the launch of the London edition of Oz amidst the 1960s counterculture, and the staff's trial for distributing a sexually explicit issue. Hippie Hippie Shake stars Cillian Murphy as Richard Neville, with Sienna Miller as Louise.

Few Australian publications of the 1960s had a greater international impact, or a greater social impact here in Australia, than the legendary Oz magazine. Its publication in 1963 marked the real start of "The Sixties" in Australia, and when transplanted to London in 1967 it became one of the key underground publications of the era.

Oz had two 'lives', one in Australia and one in Britian, and both versions were dogged by controversy, attacked by the Establishment and embroiled in famous legal battles, culminating in the infamous Oz obscenity trial of 1971.Through both its lives, the two key figures in Oz were editor and author Richard Neville and artist and cartoonist Martin Sharp, but the 'honour roll' of Oz alumni includes many famous names like Robert Hughes, Richard Walsh, Germaine Greer, Felix Dennis and Charles Shaar Murray.

Will ship worldwide by Registered Mail in tough poster tube