Nights on Broadway: Andy Warhol with Caitlin Clarke, Debbie Harry, and Andy Kaufman, backstage at “Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap”
Andy Warhol would have been 85 today, an age he may well have reached had he not been "murdered" by New York Hospital. The Pop artist played a huge role in my childhood obsession with moving to New York City, and is a recurring character in my forthcoming memoir, "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?"? Meeting him probably would have been anticlimactic -- he sounds like he could be pretty awful if he didn't want something from you, and pretty awful even if he did -- but his passing certainly marked the end of the '80s "downtown" scene as it was. Nearly 30 years after his death, though, his art is still selling for record prices proving that unlike his revolving door of Superstars, a Warhol is forever.
With Mick Jagger