Is William Burroughs dead? Is he still addicted to heroin?
William S. Burroughs, beat poet, the man who inspired such LA songs as “Language is a Virus” and collaborated on You’re The Guy…. and “Sharkey’s Night” (to mention a few) was alive and doing Nike commercials. He was born on Feb 5, 1914, and died on August 2, 1997. He was no longer on drugs. Burrough’s father sold the adding machine stock, and Bill didn’t get any of the money. • What is the song that goes “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha?” The song is “O Superman (for Massenet)”. It is Ms. Anderson’s only hit, scoring #2 on the British Charts in 1982. The song is a inspired by Massenet’s “O Souverain.” • What has Laurie been doing lately? Her latest albums were Bright Red and The Ugly One with the Jewels. Her latest tour started in February. I don’t know what she’s been doing recently. • Has anyone noticed all the references to falling in Laurie Anderson’s songs? Yes. Wes Parham< parham@phoenix.cs.uga.edu> writes: Laurie uses the image of a falling person very much, so it might be very int
