This is the first full-length look at Zapple--the Beatles' label for experimental music & spoken word recordings & the most ambitious expression of the group's determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s Barry Miles the acclaimed author was the Zapple label manager & has written an engaging & slightly gossipy you-arethere review of this fascinating period in Beatles history The book provides insight into the lives & working methods of leading literary & cultural figures of the time including Allen Ginsberg Charles Bukowski Richard Brautigan William Burroughs & Frank Zappa The Zapple Diaries is the fascinating story of an ill-fated experimental venture & a revealing account of the little-known last chapter of Beatles history