SONGS FOR DRELLA - A Fiction
The following text was taken from CD "Songs For Drella" liner notes.
life of Andy Warhol and is entirely fictitious. We start with
Andy growing up in a "Smalltown" - "There's no
Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh." He comes to New York and
follows the
customs of "Open House" both in his appartments
and the Factory. "It's a Czechoslovakian custom my
mother passed on to me/ the way to make friends Andy is to invite
them up for tea." He travels around the world and is in his words
"Forever Changed." He knows the importance of people and
money in the art world ["Style It Takes"] and follows his
primary ethic, "Work - the most important thing is work."
He can copy the classicists but feels "the trouble with
classicists, they look at a tree/ that's all they see/ they paint
a tree..."Andy wished we all had the same "Faces and Names". He becomes involved
with movies - "Starlight." He is
interested in repetitive "Images" - "I love images worth
repeating...see them with a different feeling." The mortality
rate at the Factory is rather high and some blame Andy - "It
wasn't me who shamed you..." The open house policy leads to
him being shot ["I Believe"]. He had been warned but a
new, locked door approach to the Factory caused him to wonder
"...if I have to live in fear/ where will I get my ideas...
will I slowly Slip Away?" One night he has "A Dream,"
his relationships change... "A Nobody Like You."He dies recovering from
a gall bladder operation.Chocolates were his weakness.
We miss him very much.
"Hello, It's Me."
Lyrics
The Art of Andy Warhol
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