"While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times. We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that heād just performed a piece of music called 4ā33ā (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, āSee?ā Or someone would boo and heād say, āSee? Itās not silenceāitās music.ā I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldnāt mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own nosesāmost of the time, anyway. āTomorrow Never Knowsā was one example of developing an idea."
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