Articolo in memoria di Andy Warhol. Per ricordarlo ho scelto il brano Heroin dei The Velvet Underground & Nico, con testo e video.
Nel post di oggi vorrei parlarvi di Andy Warhol, capostipite della Pop Art, pittore, scultore, regista, produttore cinematografico, direttore della fotografia, attore, sceneggiatore e montatore, ispiratore di mode e tendenze musicali, in particolare per David Bowie, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger e molti altri ancora.
Andrew Warhola Jr. era nato a Pittsburgh (USA) il 6 agosto 1928, si laureò nel 1949 in arte pubblicitaria presso l’ attuale Carnegie Mellon University della sua città, poi si trasferì a New York, dove lavorò per molte riviste, come Vogue e Glamour.
Ideò la Factory, una vera fucina di talenti in ogni forma d’ arte, in cui passarono talenti come Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring , Lou Reed.
Andy Warhol morì a 59 anni il 22 febbraio 1987, a seguito di complicazioni dovute ad un intervento alla cistifellea.
Heroin è contenuta nell’ album The Velvet Underground & Nico del 1967.
Testo: Lou Reed – Heroin
I don’t know just where I’m going
But I’m gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
‘Cause it makes me feel like I’m a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I’ll tell ya, things aren’t quite the same
When I’m rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus’ son
And I guess that I just don’t know
And I guess that I just don’t know
I have made the big decision
I’m gonna try to nullify my life
‘Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper’s neck
When I’m closing in on death
And you can’t help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don’t know
And I guess that I just don’t know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I’d sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor’s suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don’t know
Oh, and I guess that I just don’t know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it’s my wife and it’s my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I’m better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don’t care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim’s in this town
And all the politicians makin’ crazy sounds
And everybody puttin’ everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
‘Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don’t care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I’m as good as dead
Then thank your God that I’m not aware
And thank God that I just don’t care
And I guess I just don’t know
And I guess I just don’t know
Video Youtube: The Velvet Underground e Nico-Heroin
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