Publisher's Synopsis
Andrew Warhola Jr was born into a poor Czechoslovakian immigrant family in Pittsburgh in 1928. Within a short space of time, he had created a "factory" from which emerged films, paintings, records, books, magazines and stars, and Warhol, himself ascetic, conservative and very religious, had become the high priest of fashionable drug culture and a living legend. This biography of his life and career is based on extensive interviews with his friends, confidants and ex-lovers.;Victor Bockris has also written "Notes from the Bunker" and biographies of the New York rock groups The Velvet Underground and Blondie.