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  • But when you see the big, blue and pink face hovering above it, you know deep down that "Drella" is still plenty alive.

    Warhol For Smart Phones: The Pop App Travis Korte 2010

  • But when you see the big, blue and pink face hovering above it, you know deep down that "Drella" is still plenty alive.

    Warhol For Smart Phones: The Pop App Travis Korte 2010

  • No longer under the influence of his addictions, Reed adopted a more serious, if less daring, tone on his recordings, peaking with three releases that were less concept albums than song cycles: New York (1989), about the spiritual death of his hometown; Songs for Drella (1990), an elegy for his 1960s mentor, Pop art conceptualist Andy Warhol; and Magic and Loss (1991), inspired by the deaths of two friends.

    Five People Born on March 2 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Much of the duo's Andy Warhol memorial album, Songs for Drella, focuses not on the creativity of the artist but on his capacity for getting on with the job.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • As part of the project, Sholem also cast artists from Toronto for a series of paintings he refers to as Opera for Drella.

    unknown title 2009

  • Much of the duo's Andy Warhol memorial album, Songs for Drella, focuses not on the creativity of the artist but on his capacity for getting on with the job.

    Expecting Rain 2009

  • Songs For Drella, a eulogy for Warhol, their former mentor and patron, Reed found relevant topics to apply his blunt, streetwise poetry to, reemerging as one of America's most prolific and outspoken songwriters.

    EARVOLUTION 2009

  • Songs for Drella, in which he and John Cale illustrate Andy Warhol's keep-busy ethic

    Moistworks05 2008

  • Music:Lou Reed and John Cale - Songs For Drella - Forever Changed

    Photographic evidence codepope 2003

  • Current Music: Lou Reed and John Cale, _Songs for Drella

    birthdaybirthdaybirthdaybirthday badger 2002

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  • A nickname for Andy Warhol, a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella.

    December 29, 2009