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==Lyrics== The band have frequently collaborated with outside lyricists, although all of the original members wrote lyrics at some point, most notably Donald Roeser. The principal lyricists in the early days were manager [[Sandy Pearlman]] and fellow rock critic [[Richard Meltzer]]. Key members of the New York punk scene [[Patti Smith]], [[Helen Wheels (musician)|Helen "Wheels" Robbins]] and [[Jim Carroll]] - all friends of the band - contributed from the mid-1970s. Later in the decade frontman Eric Bloom, a science fiction fan, recruited English author [[Michael Moorcock]] to write for the band, and later did the same with [[Eric Van Lustbader]] and [[John Shirley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blueoystercult.com/Band-main.html| title=The Band: Blue Oyster Cult Today|website=Blueoystercult.com|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/patti_smiths_career_of_evil_with_blue_yster_cult| title=Patti Smith's Career of Evil with Blue Öyster Cult|website=Dangerousminds.net| date=August 21, 2014|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref> In order to add to their mystique the band would often use out-of-context fragments of Pearlman's unpublished sci-fi poetry cycle ''The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos'' as lyrics, rendering their meaning obscure.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, they kept a folder of Pearlman's and Meltzer's word associations to insert into their songs.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Blue Öyster Cult|last=Lenny|first=Kaye|publisher=Sony Music Corporation|year=2001|pages=3}}</ref>
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