Complex sentence: According to one story, the band took the design for the hats straight out of a "Little Lulu" comic book, or that they were inspired from a passage in the book "The Beginning Was the End".
Split into simpler sentences: According to one, the band took the design for the hats straight out of a "Little Lulu" comic book. Another story has it that that they were inspired from a passage in the book "The Beginning Was the End".