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David Bowie, September 1971, The Factory, New York, Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol
“It was my shoes that got him,” David said in 2003. “That’s where we found something to talk about. They were these little yellow things with a strap across them, like girls’ shoes. He absolutely adored them. Then I found out that he used to do a lot of shoe designing when he was younger. He had a bit of a shoe fetishism. That kind of broke the ice.”
In September 1971, Bowie flew over to New York to sign a new contract with RCA (negotiated during the successful Bowpromo trip by manager Tony Defries – see trackbytrack 83). While there, it was arranged for Bowie to meet pop artist and cultural icon Andy Warhol. Hunky Dory was in the can, and Bowie brought along a test pressing in order to play the track Andy Warhol to its inspiration. ‘He absolutely hated it’ remembered Bowie. Warhol apparently left the room. ‘He was cringing with embarrassment. I think he thought I really put him down in the song, and it really wasn’t meant to be that – it was a kind of ironic hommage to him. He took it badly, but he liked my shoes’. After the shoe-based conversation had run its course, Warhol and his team shot some film of Bowie miming an evisceration; and further footage exists of both entourages milling about (see more stuff below). Warhol and Bowie appear almost to avoid each other, sticking to their opposite ends of the room, barely appearing in the same frame together, except for a fleeting moment when both - ignoring each other - turn away from the camera’s blurry gaze. Bowie – of course – would go on to play Warhol in the film Basquiat (1996); but their relationship begins with the Hunky Dory track, which famously kicks off with faked studio chatter… How do you pronounce Warhol? (How do you pronounce Bowie?) Then the dueling acoustic guitars kick in – almost a pre-echo of the encounter between the two artists. The track has a stunning riff. It is heavy, and almost impossible to believe it is just two acoustic guitars. Written for Dana Gillespie (see trackbytrack 81), the song premiered in June ‘71 with Gillespie on vocals for a live BBC session (trackbytrack 80); and was then recorded by Bowie at another radio session in September – although it was never broadcast (trackbytrack 82). In the wake of the album release, it would become the B side of the Changes single in early ‘72; and then be included in one of the five Ziggy era radio sessions of that year.
‘Andy Warhol’: Track 8 of the Hunky Dory album. Released 17 December
1971. Written
by David Bowie. Available on Hunky Dory (1971).
