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Andy Warhol (song)

song by David Bowie

"Andy Warhol" is a song written by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie in for the album Hunky Dory. It is an acoustic song about one of Bowie's early artist inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol.

Background

The album track opens with a series of strange electronic tones which fades into studio chatter in which producer Ken Scott mispronounces Warhol's name and Bowie repeatedly corrects him.

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    • Scott then solemnly reintroduces the take with the correct pronunciation, and Bowie asks if the tape is rolling. Upon realising he is indeed being recorded, Bowie bursts into laughter and the song proper begins.

    The song is memorable for a distinctive repeated riff played by Mick Ronson on acoustic guitar.

    Originally the song was written for Dana Gillespie, who recorded it in , but her version of the song was not released until on her album Weren't Born a Man.

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    Bowie produced Gillespie's version and Ronson also plays guitar.[2] Gillespie performed the song in on the Dutch television programme TopPop.[3]

    Warhol's reaction

    Bowie, an admirer of Warhol, sent him a copy of Hunky Dory and performed "Andy Warhol" for him in person at Warhol's studio the Factory in New York in September , before the album was released.

    But due to Warhol's typically minimal reaction, Bowie was never sure if he liked it.[4] Tony Zanetta, who had brought Bowie to the Factory and later portrayed Warhol in Warhol's first play, Pork (), maintained that Warhol "didn't say anything but absolutely hated it".[1]

    Other releases

    The song was released as the B-side of the single "Changes" in January [5] It also appeared on the Japanese compilation The Best of David Bowie from An edited version, with the dialogue in the introduction cut, as it was on the US single version, is included on Re:Call 1, part of the boxed set Five Years (–).

    Live versions

    A performance sung by Dana Gillespie was recorded for BBC Radio's In Concert strand on 3 June , presented by John Peel and first broadcast on 20 June that year.[6] Bowie played this song at BBC's Sounds of the 70s with Bob Harris on 23 May This was broadcast on 19 June , and in was released on the Bowie at the Beeb album.

    A performance recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 20 October has been released on Santa Monica '72 and Live Santa Monica '72. The song was a regular performance, but it was not played again until the Outside Tour with Nine Inch Nails.[7] One live performance from was released in on the live album Ouvre le Chien (Live Dallas 95).

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    • A November tour rehearsal recording of the song, which originally aired on a BBC radio broadcast in , was released in on the album ChangesNowBowie.[8]

    Personnel

    Homages

    A riff from "Andy Warhol" (at ) is quoted in Metallica's song Master of Puppets (at ). It is an homage made by Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett to whom Bowie was a huge influence.[10] Rock band Stone Temple Pilots covered the song in their MTV Unplugged performance in

    References

    1. ^ abWhatley, Jack (18 November ).

      "The moment David Bowie embarrassed himself in front of Andy Warhol". Far Out Magazine.

      Andy warhol autobiography book In critic and poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s dazzling look at Warhol’s life, the author inspects the roots of Warhol’s aesthetic vision, including the pain that informs his greatness, and reveals the hidden sublimity of Warhol’s provocative films.

      Retrieved 14 June

    2. ^"Dana Gillespie - Weren't Born a Man Album Reviews, Songs & More &#; AllMusic". AllMusic.
    3. ^TOPPOP: Dana Gillespie - Andy Warhol (Chromakey) on YouTube
    4. ^TheBestOfVoxPop (25 February ). "David Bowie: On Andy Warhol (Interview – )". Archived from the original on 21 December &#; via YouTube.
    5. ^"Changes" (Single liner notes).

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      In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. “The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,” as Gopnik writes.

      David Bowie. UK: RCA Victor. RCA : CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

    6. ^"11/01/, Marc Riley – BBC Radio 6 Music". BBC. Retrieved 18 January
    7. ^Thompson, Dave. "Andy Warhol: David Bowie".

      Andy warhol biography Published in , esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik applied his encyclopedic knowledge of art history and penned arguably the most exhaustive biography on Andy Warhol. Using the artist’s.

      AllMusic. Retrieved 5 May

    8. ^Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (25 April ). "ChangesNowBowie – David Bowie". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 29 April Retrieved 1 December
    9. ^To Live is to Die, the life and death of Metallica’s Cliff Burton, by Joel McIver, second edition, Jawbone Press, , p

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