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Thursday, August 07, 2025

Macca and Bill . . . . .

William S Burroughs and The Beatles - DANGEROUS MINDS


An unexpected William S. Burroughs:Beatles connection

Oh you thought it was Lennon who was so interested in art and experimentation?

Nope it was Macca who commissioned Peter Blake and Jann Howarth (Sgt Pepper) and cultivated the relationship with Richard Hamilton (the White Album) and also it was Bill Burroughs hanging out with Paul when making cut ups and the formation even of Eleanor Rigby

Ray says” 

Sure, you’ve seen William S Burroughs’ face peering out from the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, sandwiched somewhere between Carl Jung and Aleister Crowley. But it turns out the old man of the cut-up method wasn’t just a symbolic figure in the Beatles’ universe—he was physically there. In the room. Right in the thick of it, while Paul McCartney was hammering out the now-immortal ‘Eleanor Rigby’."

Another fascinating article from Ray Metzger at Dangerous Minds

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