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When I read them at Le Metro, the response, in applause and overwhelming laughter, was the first I had received for anything I'd ever read in public, and I think it was an impetus to form a satiric proto-folk-rock group called The Fugs a few months later.
Jan Herman: 'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll Jan Herman 2012
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When I read them at Le Metro, the response, in applause and overwhelming laughter, was the first I had received for anything I'd ever read in public, and I think it was an impetus to form a satiric proto-folk-rock group called The Fugs a few months later.
Jan Herman: 'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll Jan Herman 2012
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When that failed to register, I explained that the Fugs were a rock band and they wrote songs both funny and political.
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The Fugs were the brainchild of one Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg in 1965.
Archive 2009-03-01 Desuko. 2009
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Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders — who had a group called the Fugs that was named after a word used by Norman Mailer in his novel The Naked and the Dead because he could not use his F-word of choice — were all in the East Village.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004
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Ken Weaver, the original drummer throughout the 60s for the counterculture/anti-war/pro-pot/anarchist band The Fugs was a translator for the CIA in the
Latest Articles 2010
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In 1964, a band called The Fugs surfaced on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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I explained that the Fugs were a rock band and they wrote songs both funny and political.
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One of the first Fugs songs, never, unfortunately, put on an album, was a ditty called "Toe Queen Love."
Jan Herman: 'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll Jan Herman 2012
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One of the first Fugs songs, never, unfortunately, put on an album, was a ditty called "Toe Queen Love."
Jan Herman: 'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll Jan Herman 2012
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