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...Brian Eno and David Bowie were early fans, and more recently his influence can be found in the music of Radiohead, Björk and Aphex Twin. His work is frequently sampled by DJs and hip-hop artists....
...William Burroughs, a visitor to the village, dubbed them “the 4,000-year-old rock’n’roll band”, yet what they do is more sophisticated than the very best rock music....
...Guitars, amps and other equipment include Brian Eno’s synthesiser from Bowie’s 1977 album Low....
...In the 1980s, Phillips’ sitters included Samuel Beckett, Iris Murdoch and his one-time student Brian Eno....
...It was one of the beat generation, Brion Gysin, who brought Rolling Stone Brian Jones to Jajouka in 1968 to record the musicians. And where he came, others followed....
...It was through him I discovered William Burroughs and Bertolt Brecht, German Expressionism and Pop Art — his were records that made me want to visit not just the dance floor but the library and the museum...
...In his hands the gung-ho muscularity of American writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E Howard was transformed into something ambiguous, ironic and British....
...The 79 black and white images on display include portraits of Ginsberg himself and his fellow Beat poets and writers, including William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso and Jack Kerouac....
...For an audience with Brian Duffy you need a sense of humour, a working knowledge of philosophy, English literature and art and an unshockable disposition....
...This one is unbearable, unwearable, and based on the new-to-me memoirs of Augusten Burroughs....
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