| Joe
Dallesandro meets Gainsbourg. Do you know Joe? A clip
from Andy Warhol's "Trash". Dallesandro's
tattoo on his right arm that reads "Little Joe",
and was portrayed in Lou Reeds "Walk on the Wild
Side" as the huslter.
which
was about the characters Reed knew from Warhol's studio,
The Factory. A Warhol photograph of the large crotch
bulge of Dallesandro's tight blue jeans graces the
famous cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.
Dallesandro
explained to biographer Michael Ferguson, “It
was just out of a collection of junk photos that Andy
pulled from. He didn't pull it out for the design
or anything, it was just the first one he got that
he felt was the right shape to fit what he wanted
to use for the fly.
The 1980s British band The Smiths would later use
a still photograph of Dallesandro from the film Flesh
as the cover of their eponymous debut album.
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