A scion of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, he was a patrician-looking character with an unsmiling, WC Fields-like humour who delighted in causing indignation. His most famous novel ...

Surrealist, satirist and beat generation figure William Burroughs has been an inspirational ... when his novel The Soft Machine – published five years earlier – became the name for a group ...

In Burroughs’ greatest cutup experiments — the novel “The Soft Machine,” for instance — content, meaning, is disregarded in favor of a dreamscape of recurring images, as if the text ...

and many band names and now common place musical vernacular comes from his books (the term "heavy metal" first appeared in his 1962 novel The Soft Machine). Burroughs may not have been a typical ...

Burroughs’ novel after getting permission from the author. The pioneering psychedelic rock band released their influential debut album, The Soft Machine, in 1968. They then scored an opening ...

Named after the William S. Burroughs book, Soft Machine pioneered an adventurous, proggy form of psych-pop that eventually evolved into a form of jazz fusion. Though commercial success eluded the ...

named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury Scene. The band originally consisted of Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen ...