Record Details

Artists:	Lou Reed / John Cale
Title:	Songs For Drella
Format:	12"
Label:	Sire
Cat No:	7599-26140-1
Released:	Apr 1990
Country:
Genres:	Art Rock
Status	Have
Added To List	8th February 2026

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[On inner sleeve]: Songs For Drella - A Fiction is a brief musical lookat the life of Andy Warhol and is entirely fictitious.[...] - Lou Reed Songs For Drella - A Fiction was originally co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy Of Music and The Arts at St. Ann's. Songs For Drella is a collaboration, the second Lou and I have completed since 1965. [...] - John Cale Recorded and mixed at Sigma Sound, N.Y.C. Mastered [...] at Masterdisk John Cale appears courtesy of Opal Records Published by Metal Machine Music / John Cale Music Inc. BMI [On labels]: Published by (G.B. only) Screen Gems-EMI Music Ltd. / Island Music Ltd. ℗ 1990 Sire Records Company for the U.S. & WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S. Made in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH Issued with a printed inner sleeve and extra sheet with the German translation of all lyrics by Dietrich Diederichsen. [url=https://www.discogs.com/Lou-Reed-John-Cale-Songs-For-Drella/release/11037423]Variation[/url]: this release comes without an extra sheet with German translation. Variation: Some batches of this release contain a promo insert with advertising for the music video "Songs For Drella" on the front side and for music videos from Lou Reed, Neil Young and R.E.M. on the back side. Some copies came with a 4x5cm sticker on front, white letters on black (probably for the German market): L O U R E E D J O H N C A L E MIT DEUTSCHER TEXTBEILAGE 7599-26140-1 All runout variants have predominantly stamped parts (R/S Alsdorf 759 926140-1-A/A2 respectively R/S Alsdorf 759 926140-1-B), all other parts are hand-etched.

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