style. Gandalf's Garden was also a shop/restaurant/meeting place at World's End, Chelsea. The magazines were printed on pastel paper using multi-coloured inks and contained articles about meditation, vegetarianism, mandalas, ethics, poetry, pacifism and other subjects at a distance from the more wild and militant aspects of the underground. The first issue of Gandalf's Garden urged that we should "seek to stimulate our own inner gardens if we are to save our Earth and ourselves from engulfment." It was edited by Muz Murray who is now called Ramana Baba and teaches yoga. These attitudes were embodied musically in The Incredible String Band, who in 2003 were described as "holy" by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in a foreword for the book Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Compendium (Helter Skelter Books). He had previously chosen the band's track "The Hedgehog's Song" as his only piece of popular music on the radio programme Desert Island Discs). The critic Ian MacDonald said: "Much that appeared to be profane in Sixties youth culture was quite the opposite". See also Counterculture of the 1960s Hungry Generation James Haynes Joe Boyd - White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s Bomb Culture References External links The Sound of Ladbroke Grove punk77.co.uk International Times official site Scans of OZ magazine (archived site) Ladbroke Grove sleeve notes from Cries from the Midnight Circus - Ladbroke Grove 1967-78, Nigel Cross Joe Beard's biography of The Purple Gang – Taking the Purple contains many references to the underground movement, UFO, IT, 'Hoppy' Hopkins, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, etc "Covering the Counterculture - the 60s Underground Press in Pictures" at The Guardian website. Underground culture British culture History of subcultures Psychedelic rock Counterculture of the 1960s