 David Bowie purportedly used Burroughs' infamous cut-up technique when he wrote the lyrics to Diamond Dogs. And Burroughs' visage can be found as one of the many faces in the crowd on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Here are the facts. The cover art of the famous Beatles album displays the members John, George, Ringo, and Paul standing next to life-size cardboard cut-ups of people they admired.