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ett and baudelaire also share the same predilections for dissipation as well perrett is one of the most anti establishment people i ve ever met he refuses to live within society s rules peter is a truly mythical figure i once described him in an article as being the syd barrett of the new wave there is a lot of mystique surrounding perrett that continues to exert a fascination over people the only ones music is kind of baroque grandiose almost it s the sound of opium dreams and car crashes refinement and chaos the only ones have just reformed and are going to be playing gigs this summer in england so i may update the book even though you re a female writer you ve chosen to chronicle the lives of male musicians as opposed to female ones does gender play a role at all when you choose the topics you want to write about the two female artists i would have most wanted to write about were debbie harry and nico i think they are both wonderful and indeed i ve done sleeve notes for a nico cd however i always write about artists who have largely been under the radar in terms of media coverage when i wrote about the new york dolls they hadn t yet reformed and hit the comeback trail but that s a bit of a tangent what i m trying to say is that i didn t think there was a need for me to write about debbie harry or nico as there were perfectly good books already out about both of them it s not an issue of gender either it s always been about whose work and style moves me which book do you like best out of the four you ve written and is that the one you enjoyed writing most johnny thunders in cold blood is the one that means the most to me because it was my first book and entailed a lot of struggle i put my soul into it and got to work closely with johnny who was my rock n roll hero it s also the book that i get the most feedback on johnny captured a lot of people s hearts and in cold blood is an authentic document it originally came out in 1987 first editions can cost quite a lot if you can find a copy i only have one left it was revised and updated a couple of years ago and it s the new version available through cherry red books that is still in print nina antonia with crooked j are you working on any new books or projects right now i had a difficult experience with the last book i tried to get off the ground which was going to be an alternative look at glam at this stage of the game i m too weary to fight for what should be obvious i e a decent advance and a reasonable timeframe for writing a book right now i m concentrating on managing a band called the skuzzies their front man crooked j is my partner if i m going to write about any band at all it will be the skuzzies they have the grimy allure of the city after midnight and incorporate everything i ve ever found inspiring in music and literature whilst being totally themselves when you were younger could you have ever imagined that your life would turn out this way does the fact that you have been so involved with the lives of your heroes seem surreal to you at all or does it just feel normal now in my early teens i spent most of my life in daydreams as this was preferable to real life my dream was to meet johnny thunders i suppose my dreams came true but of course things never turned out in the way one anticipates life is bittersweet as were my experiences of getting to know johnny and writing his biography his life was far from perfect as was mine but it was still the realization of something very special and finding creative fulfillment is rewarding writing too much too soon was a completely different experience it was more of an elegy to the original new york dolls a fond goodbye to answer your question i don t think i could have lived my life any other way my books gave me a voice that would otherwise have gone unheard an interview with the legendary cherry vanilla february 25 2011 6 13 am posted in uncategorized tagged 70s glam rock andy warhol cherry vanilla david bowie female punk rockers mad men leave a comment this is the uncut version of an interview that appeared on venus zine s website during december 2010 and features additional questions cherry vanilla answered that did not appear in the venus zine interview interview cherry vanilla the 60s and 70s music scene legend talks about what inspired her to write her new book lick me raves about the realism of mad men and shares some recollections of her times with andy warhol and david bowie by bess korey cherry vanilla s autobiography lick me how i became cherry vanilla was released during november 2010 and it is a no holds barred account of her life and career during the 60s and 70s during those decades she was a successful mad woman in the advertising industry collaborated with andy warhol and was one of his superstars had a personal relationship with david bowie while she was doing pr work for him during the glam rock era and had her own music career as a punk rocker during the mid late 70s all of these achievements and more are covered in lick me and she touches on some of these milestones from her life in the following interview what inspired you to write a book about your life story at this point in time the kids who are in the rock scene now have so many more worries than i had when i was young there s so much fear in the air there are real threats of course but also i think the government keeps us all in check by making us fearful and promoting the fact that they are our big protectors george bush and dick cheney really used this tactic a lot i wanted to promote a bit of fearlessness at least about art activism and sexuality for them and for the older folks like me i just wanted to remind them of the wild good times we had when things were not so scary as they are now make em count their blessings for having had such a fabulous youth and rejoice in the fact that we ve survived was it tough for you to write about so many personal things that happened to you and since you name names did you worry at all about how people may respond to the book it was extremely cathartic to write about so many personal things but also extremely painful at times i m a very practical person and i move on fast from failure tragedy and the like but all of the hurts and feelings i had buried so long ago came to the surface once again and had to be dealt with in a much deeper way once i started writing about them but then of course remembering all of the fabulous rock roll nights i d had the extreme joy of getting so close to the music and the musicians i loved really made me feel so extremely lucky i mean for a little irish catholic girl from queens i certainly had some rare and incredible experiences as for worrying about what anyone might think i had to put that out of my mind and try to tell the absolute truth about every encounter and every situation no matter what i think that as long as you strive so hard to portray things as they actually were and it was all so long ago i don t think that people should have any reason to get upset and even though i reveal so much about myself and my innermost feelings embarrassing moments and such i really tried hard not to reveal too much personal stuff about those in the situations i describe i mean i might tell everything about how fabulous it was to be in bed with david bowie kris kristofferson and the like but i would never discuss the size of anybody s penis or those kinds of tacky details do you watch the show mad men and if so based on your experiences of working on madison avenue do you feel as if it is a true representation of what was going on in advertising during that era oh my god they got it so right i can t believe it it s exactly as it was they even mention rattazzi s restaurant where i had my first poetry reading and what a reminder of just how fortunate i was i mean i kind of knew that women had a hard time in that world but i somehow just didn t think that it applied to me i was so naïve and that might have been my saving grace in a way i just assumed that if i did my job well and got along with my co workers that i would be rewarded with responsibilities raises and positions befitting my work ethic and my talents and i think that naïveté kind of saved me i just seemed to sail through the obstacles and i became one of the very few radio tv producers and casting directors on madison avenue at the time the only thing they haven t covered thus far in mad men is fire island and the lsd scene which was very big with all of us mad avers at the time i am waiting to see that episode maybe they will lift one from my book or maybe i could help them write one do any of the female characters on mad men remind you of yourself back then well i see a bit of me in all of them peggy certainly captures the advancements i made career wise but i wasn t as dark or dorky as they portray her in the show looks and attitude wise i was much more like joan but i was more independent and ambitious than she seems to be i certainly wasn t like betty i didn t want to be anybody s wife or girlfriend back then i wanted to be free to screw around all i wanted and to pay my own rent and my own way how do you feel working on madison avenue influenced your later career and your time doing pr work for david bowie you know what we did on madison avenue was paid advertising it was the corporate world and it s where i learned the methods and the rules of promotion but when i started doing pr for bowie what thrilled me most was discovering how much press coverage one could actually get for nothing via public relations and that s when i learned how to combine them both i remember when the great fashion critic mr blackwell put bowie on his worst dressed female list i saw that as a great opportunity to make a very inexpensive radio campaign out of it which was then written about and talked about so much in the press and in important social circles that we got ten times our money s worth out of it we didn t really have huge amounts of money on hand to promote david back then we just made it look that way to the public and it was not only my advertising experience that helped me with that but also the experience i had gained in promoting the underground films and plays i did with my friends it was so much more challenging to get the word out on something when there was absolutely no budget to do so what was it like working with andy warhol warhol gave me belief in myself as an actress he was always so encouraging and so full of praise he used to tell me that if hollywood would only recognize what he called the real stars meaning the ones he chose like me that we would once again have a golden age of movie stars like he felt we d had back in the 1930 s 40 s and 50 s he believed that stars were born stars not manufactured and that one only had to have the insight to recognize them and then put them in a setting and scenario where they could shine as themselves my favorite moment with him was when i auditioned for him in order to get the title role in his play pork and instead of him making me read a scene from the play as most playwrights would have an actress do he just chatted with me about tv commercials and asked me to sing a hymn from catholic school i sang dear lady of fatima and he loved it and i got the part do you have any memories from your time with david bowie that you would like to share well my favorite memories from my time with bowie are the ones from the ziggy stardust concerts on his early us tours they were so groundbreaking and amazing and so entertaining i really feel so lucky to have gotten to attend so many of them but of course getting to have sex with him that first time after the concert in boston is probably my most favorite memory of all that and the many nights we stayed up talking till dawn when he was at the height of his cocaine period were you involved with the feminist movement at all during the 60s and 70s not officially though i felt i was a natural feminist all of my life i wasn t afraid to do anything a man could do socially sexually and career wise i felt i broke down a lot of barriers opened a lot of doors and did away with some major taboos i earned my own money and paid my own way and i can t remember ever letting anything stop me from doing something i wanted to do or accomplishing something i wanted to accomplish because of my gender even though you weren t officially a feminist do you feel as if the feminist movement affected your life as a businesswoman and performer of course and i feel it affected a lot of women s lives that followed i wonder if there ever could have been such commercial entities as a madonna or a lady gaga if there had not first been the more underground female characters such as myself cherry vanilla posing in 2010 what influenced your decision to emerge from behind the scenes in the music world to the forefront as a performer the sex pistols are what got me to go to london in 1977 i had been into both american and uk rock groups for years and years all of the big ones beatles stones jimi hendrix janis joplin jim morrison led zeppelin van morrison pink floyd leon russell and the like but when i heard the pistols anarchy in the uk for the first time there was an energy in it that i just could not resist i sold everything i owned and got on a plane to london almost immediately i just had to see what was going on over there i have always had such a strong desire to demystify things to find out what it must feel like to be everything from an ad exec a dj an actress a pr lady and so forth it was only natural that i would want to demystify the rock star thing i was in the music business already and it was the ultimate music biz role i wouldn t have been satisfied had i not gotten up there in front of the drums the amps and the guitars and found out what it actually felt like to spill your guts out to an audience and control the energy in the room and to try and raise it to a fever pitch without it getting completely out of control and causing mass chaos do you think it s easier to be a woman in the music business today than it was in the past not necessarily i think it s hard being in the music business today no matter what sex you are there s a lack of focus on any one form the lack of a movement of any kind a trend it s the long tail thing created by the web instead of a hundred artists selling millions of albums it s millions of artists selling hundreds of albums or tracks as is more likely now mick jagger said an interesting thing in a recent interview and that is that musicians all through the ages never really made tons of money but there was that one window in time in the sixties and seventies when groups like his were able to become extremely famous and extremely rich by making music but that time seems to have come and gone now a musician is just lucky to be making a living at all by way of his or her music there are of 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