{"id":1135,"date":"2008-07-30T03:38:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:14:34","slug":"o-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1135","title":{"rendered":"O Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il web magazine dello Smithsonian American Art Museum ha pubblicato una breve intervista con Laurie Anderson<\/a> che ricorda anche il momento in cui \u00e8 diventata una star con O Superman<\/em> negli anni \u201980.<\/p>\n

La storia \u00e8 divertente:<\/p>\n

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I didn’t know anything about the pop world. I was just an artist in New York and I had made a record that I was distributing by mail order. People would call me up on the phone and say, “Can I get this record?” I would go over to a carton, pick it up and go to the post office with it. I had pressed 1,000 records of something I had done on an NEA grant called O Superman<\/em>. Then I got a call one afternoon from a guy in Britain who said “I’d like to order some records. I’ll need 40,000 Thursday and 40,000 more on Monday.” So I said, “Right. Okay. I’ll get right back to you.”<\/p>\n

I called Warner Brothers and said, “Listen, I need to press a bunch of records, could you help me with it?” And they said, “That’s not how we do things at Warner Brothers Records. What we do is you sign an eight-record deal.” And I was like, “What?”<\/p>\n

So that’s what I did, because I thought that could be interesting. I tried very hard not to be seduced by that kind of world. I had a lot of fun with it. You get out of a car and everyone is screaming, it was just funny for me. They were like, “Can I get your autograph? Oh my god!” and “It’s really you.” For me I felt like an anthropologist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

E visto che c’\u00e8 su You Tube, tanto vale rivederselo<\/p>\n