When Bob Dylan Traded an Andy Warhol Painting for a Couch

June 15 · 19 min · Episode 17 · 9.4 MB

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In 1966, Bob Dylan left Andy Warhol's Factory with a silver Elvis painting tied to the roof of his car, then traded it for a couch. This episode follows that Double Elvis through the Factory, the supposed Dylan–Warhol rivalry, Edie Sedgwick, and a much stranger truth, all the way to its home at MoMA and a $27 million auction that proves Dylan should've kept it. A story about myth, fame, and what we decide is worth keeping.

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Suggested Further Reading

Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020)
Jean Stein and George Plimpton, Edie: An American Biography (Knopf, 1982)
Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Grove Press, 2001)