![]() ![]() Tom Tom Club was formed by the rhythm section of Talking Heads: drummer Chris Frantz and bass player Tina Weymouth. Lou Reed recorded a new version of this song with the Tom Tom Club for their 1988 album Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom. This brought Lou Reed and John Cale, long since split from The Velvet Underground, to name their 1990 collaborative album Songs For Drella, in tribute to Warhol, who died in 1987. The reference was to how Andy could make you famous, but at the price of sucking some of that fame away for himself. Perhaps this is a good point to mention that Velvet Underground's producer and mentor, Andy Warhol, had the nickname of "Drella" - a name derived from a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella. ![]() In spite of this impressive family tree, Sedgwick was to find only limited success outside of Andy Warhol's flock, struggle with substance abuse, and die from overdose of alcohol and barbiturate at the age of 28. Her fame extended well beyond the (Warholian) proverbial 15 minutes - her great-great-great grandfather, William Ellery, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, and her family history blooms out from there touching almost every corner of United States history from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the founding of New York's Central Park. The subject of this song, Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick, was an actress, socialite, model, and heiress. Lou Reed himself in a 1969 interview with Open City would later call the book "the funniest dirty book I've ever read." The book included hyperbole-laden examinations of S&m, polyamory, homosexuality, and other practices then seen as "deviant." Tony Conrad, a filmmaker friend of the band, accidentally dropped the book for Lou Reed to find, who pounced on it and adopted the title he liked it less for the S&m aspect and more for the word "underground" which would associate them with the underground film and music scene. The band's name itself came from journalist Michael Leigh's 1963 paperback The Velvet Underground, an exposé of the sexual revolution going on in the USA at the time. S&M was a common theme in 1960s culture, especially around Warhol's New York, and of course it was a large influence on early Velvet Underground songs. The velvet underground femme fatale crack#According to the book The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side, during Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows, Warhol's right-hand man, Gerard Malanga, would get onstage in a leather outfit and crack a whip during this number. ![]()
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