It's the Big Bang of art and pop music: Andy Warhol's explosive collision with the Velvet Underground.Behind the impenetrable void lurked an outsider's rage. As a working-class gay man from Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol had an incredible drive to assimilate, to crash the glamour world of metropolitan society, inherited wealth and mass artistic fame. Suffering serial humiliations and setbacks, he played the game until the point, sometime in the early 1960s, when he had achieved his goal. Then for a bri...
Guardian Music — It's the Big Bang of art and pop music: Andy Warhol's explosive collision with the Velvet Underground.Behind the impenetrable void lurked an outsider's rage. As a working... more info