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William Seward Burroughs II, 5 February 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 2 August 1997, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Novelist Burroughs initially drew acclaim as a "member" of the 50s Beat movement, alongside friends and peers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. His acclaimed publications, notably The Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, exhibited the "cut-up" technique first espoused by fellow-writer Bryon Gysin, in which passages and texts were cut and reassembled to create unconscious writing. The pair subsequently brought the same method to recording during their stay at the "Beat Hotel' in Paris. Burroughs' experimental nature and his espousal of drug use made him an attractive figure of the 60s" counter-culture. His phrase "heavy metal' became the term for a musical genre, while several acts - notably the Soft Machine and Steely Dan - took their names from his works. His first album, Call Me Burroughs, was comprised of readings from The...
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