William S Burroughs Vinyl
Burroughs to review and interview led zeppelin.
William s burroughs vinyl. He is best known for his experimental novel naked lunch a subversive and highly controversial book that underwent a court case under the u s. Special thanks to rev. As a bit of prep for the interview burroughs was invited to a legendary led zeppelin concert as the band were at their peak in 1975. I ve collaborated with one of my only idols william s.
His influential lyrical style and methodology had a lasting effect on david bowie making his cut and paste method a permanent fixture. February 5 1914 august 2 1997 was an american writer and visual artist burroughs was a primary figure of the beat generation and a major postmodern author whose influence affected popular culture as well as literature. Burrough s and kurt cobain s cohbaine ethnic spelling signatures scrawled into the vinyl. Burroughs reads his doom soaked dead city prose over dense orchestrations the combination is powerful.
Burroughs and musician kurt cobain on the piece cobain provides noisy discordant guitar backing based on silent night and to anacreon in heaven to burroughs deadpan reading originally released as a limited edition 10 inch picture disc on tim kerr records in 1993 it was subsequently re released on. Burroughs and i couldn t feel cooler he wrote in his personal journal. When beat writer william s. His graphic viewpoint forever marked the work of kurt cobain and nirvana.
Burroughs 1914 1997 was one of the foremost writers of the beat generation. Here they invite none other than beat icon william s. William seward burroughs ii ˈ b ʌr oʊ z. Produced at aloes books in association with paradigm discs.
Shop for vinyl cds and more from william s. The catalogue is tk9210044. The proposed plan was to sit burroughs down alongside jimmy page for a deliciously interesting interview. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Thanks to james grauerholz and james thomblison at william burroughs cummunications lawrence ks. Burroughs at the discogs marketplace. Slow nasal articulate surreal burroughs voice and prose make for an amazing contrast over the bernard herman esque composition and dead city radio comes off as noir on acid. Burroughs contribution to music is a subtle but highly significant one.
The blank side has both william s. I wanted to know if this was actually signed or if it was stamped into the vinyl. Burroughs electronic revolution originally released with crash magazine in 1998. Sodomy laws in 1983 burroughs was elected to the american academy and institute of arts and letters and in 1984 he was awarded the ordre des arts et des lettres.
Explore releases from william s. Their collaboration the priest they called him was released in 1993 on a 10 inch vinyl picture disc. Edited version of the cd william s. The priest they called him is a collaboration between the american novelist william s.