WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - Ali’s Smile - LP - Vinyl

LABEL: Paradigm

CAT NO: PD36

BARCODE: 0769791978560

Tracklisting:

Divided into two sections. (see above for info)

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS – Ali’s Smile

LP – Limited Edition Vinyl
(*Only 1,000 copies repressed. Includes numbered Insert.)

This record is divided into 2 sections. The first part is the title track and takes up most of side 1. Ali’s Smile was first published in 1971 and was privately released as a one sided LP, in an edition of 99 copies. It came in a plain sleeve with a hardback copy of the spoken text, and was sold exclusively through Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, UK. Bill Butler, the bookshop owner, was still paying off a viciously punitive fine and associated court costs imposed in 1968 after a guilty verdict in an obscenity trial. Burroughs, a ‘fellow American’, was only too happy to help out by letting him have the rights to the recording. Rumours abound as to how many copies of the LP actually sold and how many were damaged after having been left on a heater, but, whatever the facts, this magnanimous gesture would still have been very handy. This is the first official reissue of this lost audio recording. A tale of revenge, heartless cruelty and amulet power, muddied with frequent recourse to Scientological references.