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Flashback to 1986 and Timo was living life in his hectic late twenties in the fast-paced London music business as manager of chart-topping British boy band Curiosity Killed the Cat.
A chance encounter with king of pop art, Andy Warhol's artistic entourage led to Timo and the band hopping on a plane and flying over to New York to film Curiosity's new single, Misfit, in a music video at the famed Factory.
It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could be put down to boundless, youthful tenacity and being in the right place at the right time. For Warhol, this was his last music video production before he passed on to the great and unlimited canvas above.
Amongst a handful of signed memorabilia from this brief time at the Factory, Timo held on to a Warhol signed, folded ten pound note, tucked into his wallet for almost two decades. He finally agreed to let me frame it and hang it in the downstairs loo after admitting the secret content of his wallet to a Warhol art collector!
Not one to dwell too much on the past, and partly because life took him on a far different course from the music world of the eighties, a visit to the new Warhol Live exhibit at the stunning De Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was more out of curiosity to see if the band of the same name had, in fact, made a mark within the great display of Warhol's work within the music industry.
The exhibition is striking in that Warhol's legacy is every bit as astonishing today as it was in the mid to latter decades of the last century. And if you hurry on down to the De Young before April 5, you can also catch the equally gorgeous sight of the extraordinary gowns of the late and great Yves Saint Laurent.
The De Young is open Tuesday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Fridays until 8:45 p.m. Add a $10 special exhibition fee (good for both the Warhol & Yves Saint Laurent shows) to the following admission prices: Adults $10, Seniors 65 and over $7, Youths 13-17 $6, College Students with ID $6, Children 12 and under FREE. Admission tickets to the de Young may be used on the same day for free entrance to the Legion of Honor. First Tuesday of each month is FREE. Though special exhibition fees still apply.
