You may not know the name but you will certainly recognize one of the many book covers he has designed, in particular, those for Christie and Chandler.Īdams’ covers for Christie’s classic whodunnits? were usually painted as collages that featured key scenes (and sometimes clues) from the book. He also produced posters for the likes of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine and album covers for Lou Reed and Iron Maiden. Tom Adams is an artist best-known for his cover artwork for books by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Kingsley Amis, and John Fowles during the 1960s and 1970s. He’s also spoken about the book on Erik Davis’ Expanding Mind podcast and in a video for ACNR Journal. Lees has also used apomorphine and Brion Gysin and Burroughs’ Dreamachine to investigate visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s patients.īelow, in an interview at the Beat Hotel, Lees talks with Andrew Hussey about Mentored by a Madman. He told the Guardian that taking the drug “broke down certain rigid structures that were blocking innovations in Parkinson’s disease research.” In 2013, again following Burroughs’ example, Lees traveled to the Amazon rainforest to take yagé, or ayahuasca. During the 1970s, after reading Naked Lunch, Lees began experimenting with apomorphine, the substance Burroughs advocated to cure junk addiction, as a treatment for symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The expert in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases first encountered Burroughs on the cover of Sgt.
Lees credits the author as an important teacher in his recent book, Mentored by a Madman: The William S.
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