Richard Brautigan

Listening To Richard Brautigan was the first and only album released by poet and writer Richard Brautigan. The album was recorded and originally meant for release in 1969 on The Beatles' Apple Records subsidiary, Zapple. The label released works by George Harrison and John Lennon & Yoko Ono, but it only went as far as two releases before The Beatles' manager at the time, Allen Klein, decided to shelve its release, despite it getting an acetate made by Apple. The album would be released by EMI subsidiary Harvest Records. This comes from a CD release made by Collector's Choice in 2005.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural celebrity, a writer that the would-be hip just had to read. The problem was that his fame did not rest on the considerable literary virtues of his work but, to a great extent, on a mediated image of cool hippie, which fell out of fashion in the mid-70s.