The Exploding Galaxy
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David Medalla
Paul Keeler (99 Balls Pond Rd, Islington)
Gerald Fitzgerald
Michael Chapman
Edward Pope
Susan Hertzmark (With whom I danced with in the sand box at Tottenham Court Rd.)
Gwendolyn Earl (Dream Studies, friend of T. Rex & Hawkwind) 
Michael Marshall (My Australian travelling companion. He ended up doing lights for
                             the Pink Floyd)   
Shelagh Cluett & Annie (Introduced Mick & I  to the Galaxy)
Lianne - the Flower Child
Brian - ?
Malcolm & Rakis (Went to Scotland, friends of The Incredible String Band))
Mick Farren (The Social Deviants)
The Pink Fairies were involved somewhere plugged into a house in Notting Hill (playing in the street during an early festival - '66 or '67)
Graham Stevens (Plastic Inflatables - Alexandra Palace & The Bliss Of Mrs. Blossom (a movie starring Shirley McClaine thru which the Galaxy all found work, blowing up balloons with helium)
Val (married Nicky Ryman) (As a painter & decorator, I painted their flat in Chelsea. I also painted the Lisson Gallery for the Yoko Ono "Half-a-Wind" exhibition. When I painted the I.T. office I used the money I earned to catch the ferry to Amsterdam with Jan Quackenbush, (an American film maker). When we arrived, the customs people noticed that I was carrying a couple of bundles of newspapers, International Times to be precise. They took offence to the front page nudity or was it an article about the Dutch constabulary. Anyway they siezed the papers and held me at the terminus until the next ferry back. When I arrived back in London I went directly to the I.T. office and claimed my fare back. I then returned to Amsterdam with two more bundles but this time I travelled via Belgium in the train)     

There are others - but names are a bit vague at the moment.



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Other names that come to mind:

Christian Ledoux ? - Exploding Galaxy, Human Family or Positano?
Eve Ridoux ? - Exploding Galaxy, Human Family or Positano?
Dvora - she had a flat in Geneva - her father worked for a Boston newspaper.
French Anne the photographer? We walked into a Gilbert & Sullivan performance in Drury Lane, quite by accident. She gave me an antique coach lamp.
Pierre Clementi  and the Steve Miller album (Sailor), he begged me to exchange the album for a bass recorder, at his place, near Positano. He had a room full of musical instruments.
Mario Schifano and Peter Hartman (Peter wrote music for Living Theatre)