Songs for drella - A Fiction - is a brief musical look at the life of Andy Warhol and is entirely fictitious. We start with Andy growing up in a *Smalltown* - *There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh.* He comes to New York and follows the customs of *Open House* both in his appartments and the Factory. *It's a Czechoslovakian custom my mother passed on to me/ the way to make friends Andy is to invite them up for tea.* He travels around the world and is in his words *Forever Changed.* He knows the importance of people and money in the art world [*Style It Takes*] and follows his primary ethic, *Work - the most important thing is work.* He can copy the classicists but feels *the trouble with classicists, they look at a tree/ that's all they see/ they paint a tree...* Andy wished we all had the same *Faces and Names*. He becomes involved with movies - *Starlight.* He is interested in repetitive *Images* - *I love images worth repeating...see them with a different feeling.* The mortality rate at the Factory is rather high and some blame Andy - *It wasn't me who shamed you...* The open house policy leads to him being shot [*I Believe*]. He had been warned but a new, locked door approach to the Factory caused him to wonder *...if I have to live in fear/ where will I get my ideas... will I slowly Slip Away?* One night he has *A Dream,* his relationships change... *A Nobody Like You.* He dies recovering from a gall bladder operation. Chocolates were his weakness. We miss him very much. *Hello, It's Me.* -Lou Reed Songs for drella is a collaboration, the second Lou and I have completed since 1965. I must say that although I think he had most of the work, he has allowed me to keep a position of dignity in the process. It therefore remains, as intended, a tribute to someone whose inspiration and generosity offered over the years is now remembered with much love and admiration. - John Cale

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