ANDY WARHOL

Created on 04/05/2002
Latest update on 02/05/2023

Artist: Dana Gillespie
Author: David Bowie
Label: RCA
Year: 1971

First version recorded, with Mick Ronson on guitar. Came out on her '73-album Weren't Born A Man with the author on backing vocals and 12 string. She also made the first live version, as a guest of her beau David Bowie during a BBC special. Besides, Dana did backing vocals on Ziggy Stardust. Dana's first Andy Warhol is also part of her 2019 Cherry Red 2cd What Memories We Make - The Complete Main Man Recordings 1971-1974.

Covers:

1972:

David Bowie [author on Hunky Dory]

1981:

Generation X [for the BBC]

1994:

Stone Temple Pilots

Opening guitar line of Ron Davies's Silent Song Through The Land, title track of his first album (A&M '70), was copied for the intro of Bowie's Andy Warhol.

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