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Bob Dylan and William Burroughs — A (Mostly) 1965 Timeline

by James Adams Adapted from “William Burroughs in New York City 1964-1965” by Jed Birmingham 1964 August 28 — Dylan meets the Beatles and introduces them to marijuana while visiting their Delmonico Hotel room in New York City. October — Burroughs publishes Nova Express, a work Dylan would later cite as an important influence.  December…

Brother Bill: How William S. Burroughs Influenced Bob Dylan

by James Adams With special thanks to Jed Birmingham. See also “Bob Dylan and William Burroughs — A (Mostly) 1965 Timeline.” Bob Dylan’s classic album Highway 61 Revisited was released in August 1965. The first song on the album, “Like A Rolling Stone,” reached number two on the Billboard charts. It was kept from the…

Greil Marcus on William S. Burroughs

Excerpt from Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, 1997 By Greil Marcus Discovered by [Constance] Rourke as an eighteenth-century heirloom, the mask is what in the nineteenth century came to be called the deadpan, the poker face: precisely what the coachman wipes of the rider’s face. The mask hides the voice no less than the…

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