↖ Julie Felix (1938–2020), born in Santa Barbara, California, moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eighteen. The first folk singer to fill the Royal Albert Hall, she was hailed by The Times as the “First Lady of Folk.”
In 1969 she performed at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival, with John Lennon among the audience. She was one of the first folk singers to experiment with LSD, regularly attending London’s World Psychedelic Center.
Together with Joey Mellen, she wrote the songs Blood Brain Volume, featured on the album Changes (1966), and The Great Brain Robbery, included in Flowers (1967). Both songs serve as an invitation and tribute to trepanation as a path toward permanent enlightenment.









Julie Felix, Brain Blood Volume,
Changes, Fontana records, 1966

It was lost and now it's found again
Don't drive it underground again
Brain blood volume
They call it love and heaven above
Some take it for the hell of it
That's sugarlack
Brain blood volume
It's you, it's me, it's good. Understood?
Brain blood volume.
It's what the poets have written for
Painters have painted for
Priests have prayed for
Prisons have filled for
Soldiers have killed for
Brain blood volume
It's what the holes have been through for
Oceans are still for
Holes will be drilled for
Brain blood volume
It's what the pipes have been smoked for
Witches have been cloaked for
Headstands have been done for
The whole thing was begun for
It's what the world was made for
The price must be paid for
Brain blood volume