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Grossman. ‘They have both helped in the success of
some terribly talented people,’ he notes. ‘But both
personalities belonged in the same garbage can.’
As David finished Hunky Dory that summer,
Defries was developing an almost messianic sense
that he could remake the music industry, buoyed up
by his coup at Mercury. He and David were hanging
out together more and more, at the Sombrero or
back at Haddon Hall. Defries disapproved of drug
use, the mark of a loser, but rapidly bought into the
Bowie lifestyle, savouring the exotic sexual frisson.
David also shared Tony’s fascination with
Americana – and together they became obsessed
with the biggest coup: breaking America. When
Andy Warhol’s play Pork, which so flagrantly
symbolised this new world, debuted in London that
summer, it was natural that David and Tony would
come to witness the event. What few could have
predicted was how they would adopt Warhol’s work,
using it to sell America back to itself.
Collaged from hundreds of hours of Andy’s phone
conversations by Tony Ingrassia – a graduate of the
Theatre of the Ridiculous – Pork was scheduled to
open on 2 August, and promised a healthy dose of
outrage. Two gorgeous nude boys, the ‘Pepsodent
Twins’, stood impassively on stage throughout the
show, while ‘Amanda Pork’ – obviously based on
Factory regular Brigid Polk – talked incessantly on
the phone, frolicked topless, masturbated and
engaged in hilariously deadpan conversations with
the Andy Warhol character, played with a languid
precision by Tony Zanetta. The play caused