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William S. Burroughs' Life In London
The capital's chronicler of the counterculture BARRY MILES in conversation with Stephen Coates and Paul Heartfield on the London life of WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS.
See Miles in conversation with Frank Rynne May 30th in London
salonforthecity.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/salon-no-54-william-burroughs-london.html
During the years 1967-1974, William Burroughs lived quietly in Earls Court and St James where he adopted the dress and style of an English gentleman as the latest incarnation of his L'Ombre Invisible persona.
Miles tells of how he first heard of Burroughs, how they met and about the beat writer, artist and provocateur's time in the city.
Interview and Music: Stephen Coates
Filmed and Edited: Paul Heartfield
London Spring 2018
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  • @glennhopkins2643
    @glennhopkins2643 9 днів тому

    Denise Pettet

  • @ericmaumaryjr8344
    @ericmaumaryjr8344 Місяць тому

    C.I.A. agent... Same as Leary

  • @GaryBall-vb2jk
    @GaryBall-vb2jk 8 місяців тому

    ❤🎉😂🤔

  • @fromedia.vienna
    @fromedia.vienna 9 місяців тому

    Wow!

  • @juliestrom412
    @juliestrom412 Рік тому

    Don't like enough about him to say just saw drugstore cowboy. 🐣

  • @williamdelong8265
    @williamdelong8265 Рік тому

    Got me interested in Orgone energy and changed my life. Radionics has really expanded.

  • @BaedekerBat
    @BaedekerBat Рік тому

    Anyone else been to his New Orleans house on the island of Algiers? It’s where he lived when he was writing Junky. The current owners are seriously paranoid and hostile to fans visiting the site. They even grew a palm tree to obstruct the historic placard that reads “BURROUGHS HOUSE” in their yard.

  • @BaedekerBat
    @BaedekerBat Рік тому

    I own every Burroughs’ novel and own/loved reading Call Me Burroughs. Naked Lunch radically changed me as a writer, I read it 3 times, however “And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks” is my current favorite.

  • @2yoyodog
    @2yoyodog Рік тому

    HUH..?...it's not only Miles..it's many of the Brits...the speech pattern...the rhythms..the ups and downs..fade in/fade out...

  • @lisakuntzman7834
    @lisakuntzman7834 Рік тому

    Love this. I always wanted to be his young girlfriend back in the 1980's in my late teens.I still adore him he is still so interesting. I always ready Naked Lunch, Junky, and Queer every year. So much love for this man and utmost respect to you for putting this "out there"

    • @sherylholland2378
      @sherylholland2378 Місяць тому

      Yes I always re-read The Cat Inside a few times a year - my holy book!! 🏛🐾🏛 Also The Third Mind written with Gysin.

  • @paulmcburney6874
    @paulmcburney6874 Рік тому

    Congrats TRTW: You've made me transcend into full fledged hipster. Lovely knee slapper of a diddy.

  • @friendlier
    @friendlier Рік тому

    I just finished Barry Miles' masterful "London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945". A riveting book. The amount of cultural and historical detail about a vast range of people and ideas is astonishing. Although Miles is most associated with the London of the mid-60s, I think this book has the best overview of British punk that I've read. Highly recommended.

  • @danandersen813
    @danandersen813 Рік тому

    My favorite book of Burroughs,is Naked Lunch-its so cool,its exitingly cool,the text have no story,but alot of avantgarde funny writing that is undefinable to tell about.anyway iif you havent read it,do!Because its an experience for a lifetime!

  • @Stewartchampion
    @Stewartchampion Рік тому

    Living The life of a gentleman he says .yet bumming young boys...I like his writing alot ... but sod hanging about at the end of his partys

  • @saraivatoledo1842
    @saraivatoledo1842 2 роки тому

    08:44 " Bullseye ! "

  • @ronaldchapman2806
    @ronaldchapman2806 2 роки тому

    A great tribute to a legend.

  • @jeromealexandre4162
    @jeromealexandre4162 2 роки тому

    I swear Robert frasier had a heroin prescription .

  • @MrResearcher122
    @MrResearcher122 2 роки тому

    Man says at 1:25: ''He dinned at night, and picked up Piccadilly rent boys, and he lived a proper St James's gentleman life...''

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard 2 роки тому

      It's called social hypocrisy or moral bankruptcy, take your pick. The Piccadilly meat rack,and btw when he said boys, he meant boy,s, not youth, there was a ring of foster parents who brought boys from the age of 4 to the Wimpey Bar there. If your a inherited wealth wealthy sex tourist, write for left wing indie publications, not only will they stupidly ot see the contradictions of members of the elite class larping as revolutionaries they will be quietly impressed by any degree of child cruelty and modern day slavery and extreme sadism .and mental cruelty towards the vulnerable, .on the part of their heroes. This is why we have monsters amongst us. Brain dead sht eating hero worshippers.

  • @blablableh724
    @blablableh724 2 роки тому

    But proper gentlemen do not bugger boys.

    • @Bevrinton
      @Bevrinton Місяць тому

      One would imagine back in those days it was free love with everyone doing drugs being space cadets for NASA on a one way trip to Pluto partaking in orgies and dickie back rides boring each other new arseholes etc.

    • @user-nt6hb6bv8p
      @user-nt6hb6bv8p 27 днів тому

      Yeah right.bollox course he did you think he checked rent boys ages

    • @Bevrinton
      @Bevrinton 27 днів тому

      @@user-nt6hb6bv8p probably the 60’s are to blame lots of people were experimenting with drugs , Acid LSD , thinking that they were space cadets for NASA on a one way trip to Pluto , free sex , orgies , sleeping around , girls together , boys together trying to bore each other new arseholes etc .

  • @jarrodstines5516
    @jarrodstines5516 2 роки тому

    Chop chop, goode Morgan yens, yuns and yewins...love under a hate everyone equally requiem serf fifel trip cunt in yew em

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 2 роки тому

    Love you Uncle Bill

  • @udomatthiasdrums5322
    @udomatthiasdrums5322 2 роки тому

    still love his work!!

  • @jakepaul7994
    @jakepaul7994 3 роки тому

    haha weird music style for this song but i enjoyed it :D

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno 3 роки тому

    'Well y'know we lived in real squalor, seedy places... Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Duke St. Wouldn't put a dog there...'

    • @DenkyManner
      @DenkyManner 2 роки тому

      It was a different era, you could get cheap rooms in those places, now you can't get very cheap rooms anywhere, and the cost of living wasn't prohibitive to going out for dinner. London hadn't yet been turned into a ruthless, corrupt, money making machine. He lived where it made sense to because it was affordable. The photographs show a very basic, sparsely furnished set up, he wasn't living in luxury. If it was today he couldn't live in London at all. Decades of corruption, turning a blind eye to Russian, Chinese and Saudi money means nothing is affordable any more as it's all owned by dictators.

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard 2 роки тому

      @@DenkyManner So morals that would be ... objecting to high rents and the wrong sort of Johnny foreigner. Sadistic pedophile sex tourists? Our sort of people, don't ya know!

  • @dantecalamity
    @dantecalamity 3 роки тому

    What happened to the original?

    • @lmn_godie2598
      @lmn_godie2598 3 роки тому

      probably got copyrighted because of the animations

    • @beetlehell9645
      @beetlehell9645 3 роки тому

      @@lmn_godie2598 the animations themselves should be public domain, so i assume it was taken down by tuesday weld themselves when they remade this song

    • @GaryBall-vb2jk
      @GaryBall-vb2jk 8 місяців тому

      There's somewhere in wonderland that song has to be out there somewhere😊

  • @raydavison4288
    @raydavison4288 3 роки тому

    Well done!

  • @kirby711
    @kirby711 3 роки тому

    Thanx for this so interesting

  • @paulnyssen6448
    @paulnyssen6448 3 роки тому

    'Boy friends' from Piccadilly? Dilly boys? It was organised-crime-controlled prostitution of runaway boys aged for the most part between 10 and 17 years. Older was too old for these 'gentlemen'.

  • @HolisticSoul123
    @HolisticSoul123 3 роки тому

    What’s that standing behind her in the photo at 10.43?

  • @obscured7959
    @obscured7959 3 роки тому

    Check out this song inspired by William S. Burroughs ! ua-cam.com/video/H9Nw3nmLFdo/v-deo.html

  • @silberstein1010
    @silberstein1010 3 роки тому

    i love it!!

  • @christinewood974
    @christinewood974 3 роки тому

    I'm related to Marie.

    • @tonygodfrey7813
      @tonygodfrey7813 10 місяців тому

      Which is just what I was saying to Marie Kelly. In the 1920's there must be lots of relatives still alive. Some registrars must have mixed up the birth certificates. Because of the similarities between the surnames of Woods, and Wood. In my own family. The Birth registrar's messed up the surname.

  • @sami0123456789ful
    @sami0123456789ful 3 роки тому

    isnt this the song from Karate kid

  • @mwmingram
    @mwmingram 3 роки тому

    Fantastic.

  • @Mickeyoldkent
    @Mickeyoldkent 4 роки тому

    I have an autographed photograph of Marie Lloyd

  • @mariebelle2106
    @mariebelle2106 4 роки тому

    Marie Lloyd, my great-great aunt. ❤️

    • @fatjackjack5416
      @fatjackjack5416 4 роки тому

      Let It Be Mary . Wow that's fascinating. I'm some what obsessed with her and the sisters. My parents and mates say I was borin in the wrong century because of my love of her and music hall lol

    • @mariebelle2106
      @mariebelle2106 4 роки тому

      @@fatjackjack5416 Oh, that's so sweet! I'm sure Marie and her sisters would be thrilled to know that they're still loved and remembered. You never know, perhaps you had a past life in Victorian London! :)

    • @jankelly4933
      @jankelly4933 2 роки тому

      Really? I watched a film with Jessie Wallace (Cat from Eastenders), in the lead role.. She was brilliant in it! Are you really Marie Lloyd's G-g-niece?

    • @tonygodfrey7813
      @tonygodfrey7813 10 місяців тому

      ​@@jankelly4933Surely there must be lots of people who can lay claim to being related to the Wood family. There must be lots of branches of the family connected by Marriage.

  • @davidantonsavage6207
    @davidantonsavage6207 4 роки тому

    Excellent stuff. Thanx!

  • @getredytagetredy
    @getredytagetredy 4 роки тому

    I' m glad Bill isn' t around for the tyrannical woode nheads running shit now.

  • @sekoivu
    @sekoivu 4 роки тому

    Always a pleasure to hear stories about Bill Burroughs, especially from Barry Miles.

  • @Tina06019
    @Tina06019 4 роки тому

    An enjoyable video! A sad story, really, but the men’s business suit is sartorial genius. If he wants to, a modern Western man may wear the same suit of clothes to a graduation, a job, a wedding, a court of law, a funeral, even to his own funeral. It even affords him the pleasure of yanking his tie off to indicate that he is going to relax.

    • @LordZeebee
      @LordZeebee 3 роки тому

      Wearing the same suit for all those occasions isn't nearly as positive as you make it out to be. For one, the modern suit and the culture around it largely strips you of your individuality and stunts sartorial expression. Most men today are scared to experiment and express themselves through their clothes, largely due to there only really being one socially acceptable option with at most some slight variation in small highlight colors. It's not really a matter of choice, men today are not socially allowed to deviate lest they have their entire identity, sexuality and/or even gender questioned by the world. It's definitely cheaper to only wear one thing sure but it's also harmfully restrictive.

  • @seanhallahan14
    @seanhallahan14 4 роки тому

    Miles is a gift and a joy. Wonderful stories of wsb. Sorry to be late to this party. Best & cheers, Sean

  • @squidfartz
    @squidfartz 5 років тому

    What an absolutely charming clip. Nicely done.

  • @MsKK909
    @MsKK909 5 років тому

    I fully enjoyed all of his UMs......you all are being bitchy.

  • @RobKirbyson14
    @RobKirbyson14 5 років тому

    Excellent piece. Anyone know when Burroughs met Megson/ Genesis P Orridge?

  • @RobJaam
    @RobJaam 5 років тому

    Waay past time for a second release...

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger 5 років тому

    Orgone!! I recall (trying) to buildi “accumulators” in 1990. In Eugene, Oregon a cadre of freaks(Merkin Lounge)started a renaissance of Reich, Burroughs, and Brion Gysons early works. Ours were bastardized versions that had perverse passions increased as well

  • @chadpinkess3019
    @chadpinkess3019 5 років тому

    Miles' biography of Burroughs was titled "Literary Outlaw"--fascinating read...he also wrote a biography of Somerset Maugham

    • @Gefilta
      @Gefilta Рік тому

      Ted Morgan’s biography was Literary Outlaw

  • @chrish8903
    @chrish8903 5 років тому

    Thanks for posting. Nicely executed video. I like the printed questions as it gives the floor completely to Barry Miles.

  • @angusp5178
    @angusp5178 5 років тому

    Thanks!

  • @Jackmonster3231
    @Jackmonster3231 6 років тому

    Fascinating interview! Love anything Burroughs related!

    • @pena.3302
      @pena.3302 4 роки тому

      Wow.."Bill'-wasnt doin junk..but Had a G.P..in london..Whom wrote(*)-Tincture of..T.h.c.'(From Living in Tangiers..via the French qtr.Beat Hotel.bk to The U.k..simply everthing ive read &,imagined..Jst gets more traction..better..not a fan of Miles'per say..but yes Bill.certaintly knew what was happining..Always..wonder if Keef..n W.S.B..ever hooked up..know Mick visited @'The Bunker'Well..if that aint a bluprint/Template of Yes you can still find these places..live in these parts..but kp an eye open too..W.S.Burroughs..still Teaching me(&,others id hv to hope.!)