For your reading pleasure on this hot Monday, an episode in celebrity medicine from The Andy Warhol Diaries:

Sunday, December 19, 1976
Went to work (magazines and newspapers for week $26). Lou Reed called and that was the drama of the day. He’d come back from a successful tour, he was a big hit in L.A., but he said Rachel had gotten kicked in the balls and was bleeding from the mouth and he wanted the name of a doctor. Lou’s doctor had looked at Rachel and said that it was nothing, that it would stop, but Lou wanted another doctor to check. I said I’d get Bianca’s. But then Lou called back and said he got Keith Richards’s doctor to come over. I told him he should take her to the hospital. I was calling Rachel “she” because she’s always in drag but then Lou calls him “he.”

posted 20 April 2009 in Excerpts and tagged Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Keith Richards, Lou Reed. no comments yet