she says, "designed it with room for the logo and the title and everything." It shows three pink, hairless creatures slumped in chairs in a featureless greenish space. One is staring in dismay at some white spots. Another is regarding the same spots with utter boredom. The third is looking out at us with a peculiar, curdled expression. "Then Jay Lasker, the president of ABC, came back to me and said, 'Listen, that's no good. On the back cover you've got a photo of five guys and on the front you have only three guys. People are going to ask, "Where's the other two guys?" You've got to put two more guys on the front.'

"I told him, it's not a portrait of the guys in the band, it'ssaid William Burroughs, visiting New York. "Rolling Stone gets to England, you know." He said he had heard only one track from an album of theirs, "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo." Liked it.

Panorama of the City of Interzone. Opening bars of "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"... at times loud and clear then faint and intermittent like music down a windy street....

The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market.... Not a locked door in the City. Anyone comes into your room at any time. The Chief of Police is a Chinese who picks his teeth and listens to denunciations presented by a lunatic. Every now and then the Chinese takes the toothpick out of his mouth and looks at the end of it. Hipsters