ANDY WARHOL
Nel 1971 esce Hunky Dory, “Il primo album in cui si avverte il talento di David Bowie”, scrive il malmostoso Scaruffi che cita tutte le canzoni dell’album, meno quella dedicata a Drella.
Like to take a cement fix
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up
just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go
I'd like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He'll think about paint
and he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
Andy Warhol, per gli amici Drella [“Dracula+Cinderella]: amato/odiato. C’è chi vuole ucciderlo, come i Simple Mind in Killing Andy Warhol:
Killing Andy Warhol
They say the rain in Europe
Cools you down and helps you think
Water, water everywhere
Nothing you can drink
Kissing Andy Warhol
Non fanno sconti a Andy gli Stereo Total che in Andy Warhol, senza neppure una punta di umorismo lo dileggiano [Andy è un artista che fa ridere] e concludono che i suoi estimatori sono semplicemente patetici. Ma il synthpop del duo franco-tedesco è fiacco e non arriva a bersaglio. Un brano finto-ironico di un duo altrove di discreta fattura. Meglio va il video.
Andy Warhol
Quand on est artiste humoristique
La pire tragédie
C’est quand d’autres, pathétiques
Soudain vous prennent au sérieux
Anche i Warrant, - che Scaruffi liquida da par suo come band che “hanno forse coniato la forma definitiva dell'heavymetal da classifica, trasformando il genere di strada per eccellenza in un genere domestico… in feste di stereotipi per adolescenti di buona famiglia”, - dedicano un pezzo un po’ troppo lezioso Andy: Warhol Was Right.
A conti fatti, bisogna concludere che tra tanti omaggi al genio della pop art solo David Bowie ha scritto una song memorabile, - sono passati 43 anni e il suo Andy Warhol è il miglior tributo. Inizio e fine: la morte di Warhol nel 1987 a 67 anni segna la fine della Pop Art. Ma il genio creativo dell’artista, regista, performer continua in nuove forme: anche nell’arte niente si distrugge. Il testamento è scritto in un album leggendario, Songs for Drella, tributo di due grandi artisti che erano vissuti ‘alla corte’ di Andy Warhol, Lou Reed e John Cale. Mai così risparmioso, il solito Scaruffi scrive che l’opera è “un insolito requiem per Andy Warhol”. A noi basta ascoltare due song, - la polemica con i classicisti e il saluto finale, - per renderci conto del valore di questo capolavoro.
The trouble with a classicist he looks at a tree
That's all he sees, he paints a tree
The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky
He doesn't ask why, he just paints a sky
The trouble with an impressionist, he looks at a log
And he doesn't know who he is, standing, staring, at this log
And surrealist memories are too amorphous and proud
While those downtown macho painters are just alcoholic
The trouble with personalities, they're too wrapped up in style
It's too personal, they're in love with their own guile
They're like illegal aliens trying to make a buck
They're driving gypsy cabs but they're thinking like a truck
I like the druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains
I like their lack of training, their primitive technique
I think sometimes it hurts you when you stay too long in school
I think sometimes it hurts you when you're afraid to be called a fool
I really miss you, I really miss your mind
I haven't heard ideas like that in such a long, long time
I loved to watch you draw and watch you paint
but when I saw you last, I turned away
[...]
Hello it's me, that was a great gallery show
your cow wallpaper and your floating silver pillows
I wish I paid more attention when they laughed at you
hello it's me
Pop goes pop artist, the headline said
Is shooting a put-on, is Warhol really dead
You get less time for stealing a car
I remember thinking as I heard my own record in a bar
They really hated you, now all that's changed
but I have some resentments that can never be unmade
You hit me where it hurt I didn't laugh
your diaries are not a worthy epitaph
Oh well, now Andy, guess we've got to go
I wish some way somehow you like this little show
I know it's late in coming but it's the only way I know
hello it's me
Goodnight, Andy
Goodbye, Andy
Splendido tributo di The Vandermak 5 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/vanderma.html] a
JOSEPH H. LEWIS
MARIO MONICELLI
ANTONIN ARTAUD
DEREK JARMAN
FRITZ LANG
[Sito ufficiale di Le Chapelier Fou: http://www.stylobrique.org/chapelierfou/index.html]
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
[suggerito da Winnie dei Pooh]
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