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David Bowie interviewed by Cherry Vanilla (1973)
Posted: April 23, 2012
This is never before released audio of Cherry Vanilla quizzing David Bowie in New York in 1973. As his spokesperson, Cherry did this in order to provide more informed responses to interview questions about Bowie by journalists and DJs. This private recording is now finally released via her official website: www.cherry-vanilla.com
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Article on LICK ME in La Republica VELVET magazine
Posted: March 25, 2012
VELVET is a monthly Italian magazine featuring articles on fashion, culture and lifestyle.
The article, in Italian, appears in issue #63 - 2012
The gist of the article, for those who do not speak Italian, is "This ex-bad girl has always had a soul and a brain too. And despite the heavy use of drugs, pills and alcohol, managed to survive and thrive."
Check it out here: (click to enlarge)
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The legendary Blue Roses now available for free download
Posted: September 14, 2011
In 1988, Cherry and Man Parrish wrote this intriguing jazz-edged poetry piece to benefit
the grass-roots charity Cherry was working with at the time, Children In Crisis. It was
performed live, with Barb Morrison on sax, for two nights at Capito restaurant in Manhattan,
where photographs by Cherry were on exhibition. The trio made this quickie recording of it
at Parrish's studio in Brooklyn, in order to sell cassettes at the shows. Unfortunately, the
master tapes went missing long ago, but thanks to a well-worn cassette saved by the show's
director, Tony Zanetta, we can now make this little piece of history available for free download
here (see below) and also at www.manparrish.com.
Please excuse the less than perfect sound quality, and
enjoy the journey nonetheless.
Info on the album:
TITLE: BLUE ROSES
RECORDED: 1988 - Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC: Man Parrish (Girlfriend Music, ASCAP)
LYRICS: Cherry Vanilla (Vanilla Music, ASCAP)
SAX: Barb Morrison
Download the complete album:
Download tracks:
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Latest Patti Smith book is dedicated to Cherry Vanilla!
Posted: July 15, 2011
In Dave Thompson's just released book, Dancing Barefoot, The Patti Smith Story, the dedication reads ... "For Cherry, who not only showed me what could be done, but also gave me the resolve to do it." Cherry, who is also mentioned within the book, comments, "I am thrilled that Dave, a writer I respect so highly, has paid me this extremely generous compliment. I only hope that I have been and will continue to be an inspiration to other artists as well. That's more important to me than making any bestseller lists ... though that would also be nice." (See Dave Thompson's review of Cherry's book, Lick Me in the Book section of this site.)
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Now available ... Lick Me T-shirts
Posted: January 19, 2011
Just like the one Cherry wore in her punk-rock days,
just like the one Rufus Wainwright wears in the photo!
Sold exclusively through this website.
Browse to this site's "Shop" for details and order form.
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Back by popular demand
Posted: January 12, 2011
Cherry returns to COCO DE MER for encore reading of LICK ME:
Tuesday, January 25 2011
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Coco de Mer
236 Elizabeth Street
New York, New York 10012
www.cocodemerusa.com
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Three more LICK ME events for Southern California
Posted: October 23, 2010
Due to the numerous requests, Cherry has added two more readings / signings in Los Angeles and one in Montecito:
Friday, November 5, 2010
7 PM
As part of the Little Birds series
Tavin Boutique
1543 Echo Park Ave.
(bet. Morton and Grafton)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(310) 482-5832
www.lifebytavin.com
Monday, November 8, 2010
8 PM
Coco de Mer Erotic Boutique
8618 Melrose Ave.
(bet. La Cienega and San Vicente)
Los Angeles, CA 90060
(310) 652-0311
www.cocodemerusa.com
Thursday, November 11, 2010
4:30 - 6 PM
Tecolote Book Shop
1470 East Valley Rd.
(upper village)
Montecito, CA 93108
(805) 969-4977
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Max's Kansas City Blog Features Cherry Vanilla
Posted: September 22, 2010
From the Max' Kansas City Blog:
It was the drugs, stupid!
I've read a lot about Max's lately. And it's all true ... well, sort of - everyone having their own particular spin on their Max's memories. As for me, when I think back to what made Max's and, indeed, the whole era so incredibly memory-making in the first place, I realize it was the drugs.
Everything - the art, the theater, the music, the fashions - was all because of the drugs. Even for those who didn't take 'em, it was. The atmosphere was so steeped in them, that whether through ingestion or contact, you just couldn't help but be high. And in those days, it was predominantly a psychedelic high. So, naturally, everything came off as much more colorful, intense and magical, than in times when other drugs reign.
So, when you read all of the incredible stories about Max's and you wonder why the place and the era seems to hold such glamour, intrigue and romance still - especially as compared with the world we live in now - you must understand...
http://maxskansascity.com/view/?post=7025
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Another outstanding review for Lick Me
Posted: September 22, 2010
Published in the Sept. 15, 2010 print issue of Library Journal:
Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla. Vanilla, Cherry. Chicago Review, dist. by IPG. Nov. 2010. c.288p. illus. index. ISBN 9781556539436. $24.95. MUSIC. Vanilla personified the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll of the Sixties and Seventies, and
she here reveals an astounding array of details about her life during those turbulent times. Onstage, she starred in the Andy Warhol production of Pork. She steeped herself in rock 'n' roll and toured with the Police. A poet, singer, DJ, songwriter, publicity
rep, groupie, and more, Vanilla was linked with David Bowie, Kris Kristofferson, and scores of others - the list reading like a who's who of the times with absorbing and titillating behind-the-scenes anecdotes. She survived untold highs and lows battling
drugs and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Yet the heart of this story is how and why a little girl from Queens, NY, evolved into a larger-than-life celebrity. Tales of an insensitive father, a compassionate mother whose night job as a telephone operator
provided Vanilla with a glimpse into the Copacabana, and youthful capers will engage readers from the beginning, offering a thought-provoking, bittersweet prelude to the mayhem that follows. VERDICT This brutally honest, engagingly written, and often
raw memoir of a pop-culture icon reflects a bygone generation. - Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, NJ
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Cherry's first ever Lick Me review
Posted: September 8, 2010
It's by the prestigious PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ... and it's a rave!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/nonfiction.html?page=2
Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla (By Way of the Copacabana, Madison Avenue, the Fillmore East, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and the Police)
Cherry Vanilla, foreword by Rufus Wainwright, Chicago Review, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55652-943-6
A fixture in the music and club scenes since the 1960s, musician, groupie, and PR woman extraordinaire Vanilla takes readers on a wild romp through her drug- and sex-filled life. Born Kathleen Dorritie in Queens in 1943, Vanilla loved music from an early age and would often accompany her parents to the Copacabana in Manhattan, where she once met Dean Martin. Raucous parties--often fueled by acid and pot--were a fixture of her life in the '60s, as she dabbled in DJing in clubs and built an advertising career on Madison Avenue. In 1970, Vanilla had "a rock and roll revelation": she wanted to become a groupie, even though she was "already a twenty-six-year-old businesswoman of sorts." This led to trysts with musicians like Kris Kristofferson and David Bowie, whom she helped introduce to American audiences. As punk music began to overtake glam rock, Vanilla launched her own music career and briefly toured in the U.K., with the Police as her backup band, and later in the U.S. Vanilla's voice is distinctively sassy, despite her conventional storytelling methods, and her memoir is an entertaining peek into music's backstage world. (Nov.)
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Cherry Vanilla's Lick Me about to be released!
Posted: September 1, 2010
In this candid, colorful read, Cherry chronicles her juicy, joyous journey, from the glamour days of New York's Copacabana nightclub in the 1950s to the raunchy days of punk rock at London's famous Roxy in 1977. Poet, actress, ad exec, groupie, DJ, Bowie PR lady, Sting bandmate --
Cherry was the ultimate rocker chick of the era, playing every role in show biz, while indulging in all of the sex and drugs she craved along the way -- a liberated, independent and successful woman, not afraid to tell the truth about her heartbreaks, failures, mistakes and even two abortions.
Lick Me is the ultimate insider's tale of what goes on behind the scenes in the world of rock and roll.
... Chicago Review Press
Lick Me will be released in hardcover -- with endorsements by the likes of Tim Burton, Dito Montiel and Pamela DesBarres -- by Chicago Review Press / A Cappella Books on November 1, 2010, available at bookstores, on-line, and also for download as an e-book. Pre-order at Amazon now. To purchase a personally autographed copy of Lick Me, visit Cherry's shop on this site.
Chicago Review Press
hardcover: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1556529430
ISBN-13: 978-1556529436
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