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Alice Cooper and Andy Warhol…

Found this story over at CNN.  It was written by Oscar Holland and Allyssia Alleyne and concerns…

Alice Cooper’s ‘forgotten’ Warhol found after four decades

The upshot of the article is that musician Alice Cooper, best known for such songs as School’s Out and I’m 18, apparently bought and owned an Andy Warhol print whose value today may be upwards of $10 Million… and it was only now that he remembered he had it.

Why is that?

Blame the 1970’s rock n’ roll lifestyle.  From the article, Shep Gordon, Alice Cooper’s manager at the time, states:

I remember (then Alice Cooper girlfriend) Cindy came to the office and said that she wanted to give Alice the electric chair (painting) for his birthday, and (Warhol’s studio) said she could have one for $2,500.  That’s my recollection but everything from those days is really foggy. As I (later) found out — things that I thought were real were not real.

Incredible, no?  Especially the last line about things that “I thought were real were not real.”

Perhaps that’s the best description of the rock n’ roll lifestyle circa the 1970’s you’re going to find.