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Oh, Andy Warhol
Mar. 5th, 2012 08:42 pmI'm browsing through some of my Beatles-related biographies when collecting some background, and came across a quote which never fails to crack me up (which is in Linda McCartney: A Portrait, for those of you fond of sources):
Paul Morrissey and Paul McCartney had known each other since 1967, when the Warhol crowd passed through London after the Cannes Film Festival and gathered at the apartment of the late Robert Fraser, a great art dealer who was very close to Paul McCartney and had invited him over to meet the famous New York artist. Paul brought with him the advance layouts of the Sergeant Pepper album cover, about which Andy could only say - to Fraser after Paul had left - that he didn't see his own picture on it, and that was his opinion of it, period.
Of course it was. (Though my favourite reaction to the Sgt. Pepper cover is Mae West refusing to give permission for her likeness to be used on the grounds of "what would I be doing in a Lonely Hearts Club band?")
Paul Morrissey and Paul McCartney had known each other since 1967, when the Warhol crowd passed through London after the Cannes Film Festival and gathered at the apartment of the late Robert Fraser, a great art dealer who was very close to Paul McCartney and had invited him over to meet the famous New York artist. Paul brought with him the advance layouts of the Sergeant Pepper album cover, about which Andy could only say - to Fraser after Paul had left - that he didn't see his own picture on it, and that was his opinion of it, period.
Of course it was. (Though my favourite reaction to the Sgt. Pepper cover is Mae West refusing to give permission for her likeness to be used on the grounds of "what would I be doing in a Lonely Hearts Club band?")
