Songs for Drella (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground. On January 9, 1989 Cale and Reed performed a selection of Songs for Drella at The Church of St. Anne's in Brooklyn. The first full version was played on November 29-30, and December 2-3 at the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On the last date they were joined onstage by Maureen Tucker for the encore of "Pale Blue Eyes." It was released in 1990 by Sire Records. A live performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Ed Lachman, was filmed and released on VHS and laserdisc formats. The album is the pair's first collaboration since 1972, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname coined by Warhol Superstar Ondine for Warhol, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd.