Barry Miles is an author who is known for his participation in the 1960s Underground movement in London and his subsequent writings about it; his book Hippie, for instance, is a reminiscence of the hippie sub-culture of the Sixties and Seventies. He was co-owner of the famous Indica Gallery – a counter-culture art gallery supported by Paul McCartney, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met. He wrote McCartney’s official biography Many Years From Now (1998) and has also written biographies on Frank Zappa, John Lennon, William. S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg.