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"Andy Warhol" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 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. 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 1971, but her version of the song was not released until 1973 on her album Weren't Born a Man. Bowie produced Gillespie's version and Ronson also plays guitar. Gillespie performed the song in 1974 on the Dutch television programme TopPop.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”
— 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', Part 1, G. R. Swenson, in Art News 62 (November 1963)
“(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)”
— As quoted in et al. (2001), Sylvie Fleury: Identity, Pain, Astral Projection (exhib. cat., Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2001–2002), Paris: RMN (Réunion des musées nationaux) & Dijon: Presses du réel, []
“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
— In: "Inside Andy Warhol," by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”
— Ch. 4: Beauty
“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
— Ch. 10: Atmosphere
“I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.”
— As quoted in Pop Art, an Critical History, Steven Henry Madoff, Madoff, University of California Press, Berkeley 1997, p. 104

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

"Andy Warhol" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 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. 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 1971, but her version of the song was not released until 1973 on her album Weren't Born a Man. Bowie produced Gillespie's version and Ronson also plays guitar. Gillespie performed the song in 1974 on the Dutch television programme TopPop.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Andy Warhol" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. It is an acoustic song about one of Bowie's early artist inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol.

Notable quotes

“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”
— 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', Part 1, G. R. Swenson, in Art News 62 (November 1963)
“(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)”
— As quoted in et al. (2001), Sylvie Fleury: Identity, Pain, Astral Projection (exhib. cat., Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2001–2002), Paris: RMN (Réunion des musées nationaux) & Dijon: Presses du réel, []
“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
— In: "Inside Andy Warhol," by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”
— Ch. 4: Beauty
“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
— Ch. 10: Atmosphere
“I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.”
— As quoted in Pop Art, an Critical History, Steven Henry Madoff, Madoff, University of California Press, Berkeley 1997, p. 104

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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