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My husband Ozzy and I once met Andy Warhol. It was in New York in the Eighties, about a year before the artist died and at the height of Ozzy's solo success. We had a call from one of Warhol's people saying Andy wanted to meet Ozzy. We were intrigued so we said: 'Let's do it.'
First came dinner in a restaurant in Greenwich Village. Ozzy and I sat opposite Warhol, who was exactly like you see him in pictures, only more exaggerated - skinny face, and his collar too big for his neck, so the effect was a bit tortoise-like. Most of the time he didn't say anything, and when he did, it was so quiet you couldn't really hear.See the full content of this document
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The Dark Side of Fame
Dinner over, he said he wanted to take us to a Manhattan club. It wasn't long before Ozzy got agitated. 'I'm bored,' he told me.
'So am I,' I said. 'But we can't leave yet, it would be rude. Just give it another half an hour and then we can disappear.' Ozzy went off to the bathroom and didn't return. When I realised he'd done a runner, I did the same.Of course, Andy Warhol is most famous for saying: 'In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.' These days I'd put that figure closer to five minutes.I thought of Warhol's prediction when I was watching a morning chat show on TV recently. It featured a girl aged about 14. Her one aim in life was to have surgery so that she would look like Katie Price. Her reasoning seemed to be that if she looked like the glamour model, she would become as ...See the full content of this document
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