Ex­cer­pts from the na­ked lunch (1965)

Ti­tle of the album: Call me Burroughs
Ti­tle: Excerpts from the naked lunch(Track 01)
Publisher: English Bookshop, Paris
Da­te: 1965
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm
Cover: Tientje Louw; photo Harriet Crowther
Edition: 1000

The piece, Excerpts from the naked lunch, by the US American Beat Generation novelist William Burroughs, reportedly goes back to the initiative of Gaît Frogé, the owner of The English Bookshop in Paris. The recordings were made under the direction of Ian Sommerville on the Uher tape recorder of English sound poet and artist Brian Gysin. Emmet William wrote the cover text. The album was the only audio recording of Burroughs for many years.

In professional circles, the album was considered an important artistic contribution to the literature and art of the time. The English poet Barry Miles said of it: "The Beatles 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." According to Miles, many successful artists and musicians owned the album, such as Paul McCartney, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger. McCartney then hired Ian Sommerville as a producer for tape recordings.

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