Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, Basquiat used similar cut-up techniques to remix his materials.
By then, the band had dropped the Silver from their name and alter the spelling to Beatles , with an a instead of beetles with a double e, this was a homage to the beat generation.
The black turtleneck became associated with a beatnik subculture in the previous decade, and it became especially fashionable following the release of the 1957 film, " Funny Face, " starring Audrey Hepburn.