Dress my friends up just for show…
‘Pop Art – Underground Sounds from the Warhol Era’ is a 15-track CD due next month as part of a tie-in with a three-part Warhol retrospective starting on Channel 4 next week. In fact, the UK is due to go Warhol berzerk in the coming weeks with a major retrospective at TATE modern as well as the TV series and CD.
Released through Channel 4 Music, the CD includes tracks from The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Television, New York Dolls, MC5, The Tubes, Nico, The Ramones, 13th Floor Elevators, Blondie, The Modern Lovers, John Cale & Lou Reed and of course, David Bowie.
Surprisingly, the Bowie track is ‘Andy Warhol’…albeit a slightly clumsy edit, at least it is on the promo. I’ll post the full track list and more details of the TV series as they are confirmed, and as you would imagine, we will be making a fairly big deal of this one for obvious reasons, with a couple of competitions hopefully.