Comments on: William Burroughs and David Solomon

By: Mr Richard Mullens

Mr Richard Mullens — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:51:25 +0000

I met David Solomon in the Bun Shop (pub) in Cambridge in 1970. He remarked upon another American who was also there beside me and “nodding off”. David was a friendly and knowledgeable guy. One of his daughters knew a physically large male undergraduate possibly from Jesus who after his 3 years as a student started working as a conductor on the Cambridge buses – unfortunately I can’t remember his name. I also new Alan Terry (Jesus college) and Andy Munro. An extraordinary coincidence perhaps was that I met one of the detectives of Operation Julie while I was living in Stockton on Tees while working at British Steel round about 1980 – he moved into another bedsit in the house. My gmail address has my christian name and surname separated by a dot if anyone has some information about Alan Terry or Andy – I’d very much like to get in touch with Alan. I left Downing College in 1970 but stayed on living in Mawson Road for a year. Those were interesting times.

By: Kim Peralta

Kim Peralta — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:24:04 +0000

This article contains false and derogatory information in several places, about my dad, David Solomon. The writer obviously never met him and is projecting his own opinions onto reality.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Mon, 09 May 2022 13:41:55 +0000

In 1972 David viewed our house on the island of Anglesey. I would be interested to know if his family were aware of this and did it have anything to do with a hippy commune that was close by.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:25:23 +0000

“Yet Solomon remained something of a schlemiel. As in his career as a magazine editor, his ideas and his ambition overreached his abilities.”

Utter horse shit and intellectual dishonesty from a pundit who never met him, but has apparently read tabloid fabrications about him written by those he never spoke to. By contrast, consider why so many of the finest talents of the age counted him a friend. He had the brain the size of a planet and magnetism greater still. His abilities, of which this writer knows nothing, were boundless. His ambitions were never worldly or conventional. He marched to the beat of his own drum. Rest In Peace David.

@Finnian – don’t engage with this rubbish.

By: Harvey Mason

Harvey Mason — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:46:03 +0000

Contact me if you want a copy of a letter from Solomon to my father..

By: Cate K

Cate K — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:59:59 +0000

Very interesting piece about a very interesting character. I’m thinking that he must also have known Robert Anton Wilson while at Playboy? personal favourite writer of mine!

I’m trying to put together some notable places in Cambridge (UK) related to LSD. From the comments above I think David Solomon lived in Abington and I’ve found a reference to Francis Crick holding parties in Portugal Place. I don’t suppose you have any more specific locations do you?

Question also open to Finnian Peralta and Hugh Geen should they be reading.

many thanks!

By: Kurt Wanfried

Kurt Wanfried — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:40:25 +0000

I met David Soloman when I went to Baleares International School in Mallorca with his daughters, Kim and Lynn. He was an impressive guy and was fascinating to listen to. I learned a lot about cannabis, hashish, Lenny Bruce and yogurt.
This is the first I’ve heard of his post-Mallorca triumphs and tragedies. He remains, however, among the most notable people I met in my life, and I hope all the members of his family are doing well.

By: Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald — Sat, 06 May 2017 13:00:14 +0000

Can you enlighten us any further on Solomon’s sojourn in Mallorca? There are tales of LSD being taken by like minded souls who would make their way to the ‘ritual’ after catching strains of a pre-release copy of the Beatles’ opus, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s…’, wafting down the valley from a house near the church. This was the signal for a communal trip according to reliable sources (Soft Machine personnel). He was reputed to be the main supplier of the Fab Four’s psychedelic intake.
Also, why did he have to leave the island? I presume the Guardia Civil were involved, but was he ‘denounced’?

By: Hugh Geen

Hugh Geen — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:13:45 +0000

David Solomon and his wife gave myself and a friend a lift up to London when they saw us hitch hiking on the old A11 just past Newport. He gave us a tobacco tin with what was then about 15 pounds (sterling) worth of Moroccan hash. It later turned out that another friend of mine and his brother had met David at Compendium Bookshop in Camden High Street and so we went to visit him in his house at Abindon near Cambridge. We all smoked a lot of dope and the evening was chiefly memorable because he stood on his head for about 5 – 10 minutes and then crashed over onto the coffee table spilling and breaking numerous pieces of crockery. Years later it turned out that many other acquaintances knew him in Cambridge. This was all 15 years before Operation Julie when his name was in all the newspapers.

By: Chas. Daman

Chas. Daman — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:39:12 +0000

I met David Solomon when he was serving his sentence in HMP.THE VERNE. His account of his involvement in the ‘Julie’ operation was completely different to what I have just read.