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785: 31: 30: 325:. Sommerville ended up living in the apartment, and subsequent tape experiments were conducted there by Burroughs. McCartney was said to have found all of this very interesting and relevant to his own recordings. 1093: 248:'s ESP-Disk label released the album in the United States, extending its reach. According to Miles, Stollman simply added the ESP logo and address to the original sleeve. 1231: 229:
and Lebel to write liner notes, which were published in both English and French. Burroughs stated that he believed the recording had "almost certainly" been made "using
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may have been the soundtrack to 1965 for the beautiful people of swinging London, but to the cognoscenti there was something even cooler to listen to."
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The album would go on to have a wide influence, particularly in England. Barry Miles, in his liner notes for the 1995 Rhino rerelease, says, "
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was a great favourite for late-evening listening when people were stoned; Paul heard Burroughs's cold, flat Mid-Western voice reading from
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Frogé published 1,000 copies of the album, and Miles points out that "For many years,
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reissued the album on Compact Disc in 1995, the company's first ever reissue.
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calls the album "a talisman of cool in Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s."
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McCartney was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer,
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described as its "vaulted medieval basement." Frogé paid producer
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was the only recording of William Burroughs available." In 1966,
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
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was an essential record. The Beatles all had copies (
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Index

Black and white photograph of the face of William S. Burroughs against a black background with plain text reading "Call Me Burroughs".
Studio album
William S. Burroughs
Genre
Avant-garde
spoken word
Label
Producer
Ian Sommerville
William S. Burroughs
The Nova Convention
Beat Generation
William S. Burroughs
Rhino Word Beat
Naked Lunch
The Soft Machine
Nova Express
Barry Miles
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Ian Sommerville
Fluxus
Emmett Williams
Brion Gysin
Uher
Bernard Stollman
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Brian Jones
Mick Jagger

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