7/8/2023 0 Comments William s burroughs 1959![]() With both artists utilising the 'cut-up' method of messing with narratives, popularised by Burroughs’ associate Brion Gysin in 1959, the pair appear to have hit it off in their conversation. Under the headline Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman, William S Burroughs interviewed David Bowie for Rolling Stone in late 1973. ![]() Nice looking young man, hardworking." Burroughs would later appear on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, wedged between Marilyn Monroe and Sri Mahavatar Babaji, a Hindu guru. "I saw the song taking shape," Burroughs said. In a surreal piece of rock trivia, William S Burroughs has suggested he was in attendance during Paul McCartney’s earliest run-throughs of "Eleanor Rigby." At the time, Ian Sommerville, Burroughs’ boyfriend, was working as a tape operator for The Beatles. From musing on the Loch Ness Monster with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page to dream discussions with David Bowie, here are just a handful of the artists Burroughs engaged with and inspired before his death in August 1997. ![]() Alongside friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Burroughs was a founding forefather of the 1950s Beat movement, which turned standard writing narrative formats on their head. ![]() Infamous for his unapologetic drug use, cavalier lifestyle and pushing against society’s morality laws, William S Burroughs fitted a lot of living into his 83 years. ![]()
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