I Met Andy Warhol

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The album’s 7th track, I Met Andy Warhol very aptly follows on from the track about Camden Town and is about the lyricists meeting with the legend while he was working in his teens selling hotdogs outside the famous theatre and concert venue, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm Road, North London and it is recommended to read about the actual meeting with Andy Warhol HERE to give you a fuller understanding and insight into the song. The song is very 70’s retro-sounding with a gorgeous synth/organ sound interspersed with the bubble-gum-pop type sound. Some of the most memorable lines from the song are, Andy could have painted you/on the pouch of a kangaroo/or on the side of a bus/or on a plate of frozen moon dust/ or on a plate of frozen moon dust – a lot of fun!
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I Met Andy Warhol was released as a single on 5/11/19 and can be downloaded at all good download stores including Spotify HERE on iTunes HERE on Apple Music HERE on Deezer HERE on Google Play HERE
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I Met Andy Warhol lyrics
‘You Won’t believe who I bumped into the day before yesterday down by the Roundhouse!
Well, who mate?
I bumped into this geezer called ‘Andy Warhol!’

See David in tattered blue jeans
Listening to Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’
Selling hot dogs by The Round House
In North London, thereabouts

David in tattered blue jeans
Looking like a skinny bean
David in tattered blue jeans
As unstable as gasoline

One night Andy came to town
He was the brightest star around
They were opening up his show
Would he come to the show no one could know?

I spoke to Andy that time
He looked so dandy and so fine
On the street in seventy two
On the arm of his boy with his eyes of blue

From near Andy didn’t look big
Grandma shouting ‘Pig, Pig, Pig’!
Protesting with her Welsh talk
Andy answered ‘No, you’ll find it’s called ‘Pork’!
‘No, you’ll find it’s called ‘Pork’!

He gave me a look and a smile
He sure did have class, he had style
I’ll never forget his warm eyes
When I later heard he’d gone, I cried
I cried, yeah I cried, I cried

Andy could have painted you
On the pouch of a Kangaroo
Or on the side of a bus
Or on a plate of frozen moon dust
Or on a plate of frozen moon dust

David in tattered blue jeans
Meeting stars of the silver screen
David in tattered blue jeans
Rubbing shoulders with kings and queens

David in tattered blue jeans
Looking like a skinny bean
David in tattered blue jeans
As unstable as gasoline
As unstable as gasoline

‘Andy Warhol he’s a legend you know!
Paints all kinds of art you know
You know like tins of soup ’n stuff like that’!
I met Andy Warhol

Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 372310DQ
ISRC QZHNA1919468 & QZK6P1990250

P.S. ‘David’ in the song is me as it is the name given to be by the late Chief Rabbi of Israeli Shlomo Goren upon my conversion to Judiasm, David Ben Avraham being my full Hebrew name.