Andy Warhol autographs his book "America" at Fiorucci on Valentine's Day 1986

Nelson Takes us up close to Andy Warhol as he autographs his book "America" for many fans including James St. James. Video by Nelson Sullivan

[@gwennquagmire3839]

So close you can smell the paint pen Andy was using. That's how awesome Nelson was... is... Will always be!!!

[@egapnala65]

"Worked a little bit and then went to Fiorucci from 4.00-600 to sign "America" books and signed 185. And Billy Boy came over to the store and Paige came and took us to the Cafe Condotti for tea and that was fun. When we sit underneath all my Grape prints it seems like it our place or something." From Warhol's diary

[@portlandsamber]

I like your style. 👍

[@guydreamr]

What was the date?

[@theblackboxclub]

9:26 that's a very nice touch by Nelson in the final seconds, where Warhol walks out of the door and is framed by an inflatable 'love-heart' balloon! I bet Nelson, was very pleased with that one. Seen al of his work on this account now, ad loved it all..so time to start again, to catch what I missed....! - Marcus

[@shawndamccormick278]

I'm so thankful that we have these to watch, yet they are a bit bitter sweet knowing these days are looooong gone.

[@benadams1661]

Enjoy the here and now because one day you will be looking on today with regret you didn't Appreciate what you had

[@LaurenOliviArt]

Nelson you will always be loved 💖

[@Transformational_change]

Nelson is the best. Wish I could have him over for dinner.

[@Howard007]

he had such a beautiful signature

[@eBrigid]

Fiorucci. Now that is a name I haven't heard in ages. I recognize so many people in this video. Feels like yesterday. Andy looks great here too.

[@metronomejack]

Ohh Andy, I can watch documentaries about you without ever getting bored, It's magic!

[@lachrechiamjohnson5301]

His footage was amazing!

[@bodeguero1]

I remember this. U have the best channel and footage. Fiorucci was truly an experience and we need another one now badly.

[@lillyrocks2011]

Wow! Awesome. I wish I could be there, and close to Andy, Nelson...

[@jacknjill3000]

Great flashback and thanks for posting. Even tho I’m from San Francisco, I remember how fun it was to show up to these special events and opening of new trendy stores. Everyone would show up and be a part of something special. I love how in New York, you could have Andy walking or standing there and no one would even turn around and left alone. That’s what’s amazing about NYC and how stars were left alone back then. I’m not sure now and haven’t been to NYC for 20 years. We never had a Fiorucci store in SF, but I had this neon orange nylon motorcycle jacket in 1983.

[@emilymacdonald6660]

Very nice signature from Mr warhol I like he's painting of ms marilyn monroe ❤

[@TS-qq7vr]

I wonder how much influence Warhol's short films had on Nelson Sullivan.

[@guydreamr]

Not sure about his films specifically , but Warhol's documentarian style which included carrying a still camera almost wherever he went had a huge impact on Nelson.

[@flyfly2850]

Take me there NOW.

[@edeneverly2573]

Oh my god this is beyond amazing.

[@casket8530]

Man I wish you had footage of Basquiat.

[@bowieaddict3178]

I know it doesn't help but I have the movie on VHS. 😂 Seriously!⚡⚡⚡✨⚡⚡⚡

[@froladee]

The gent at 4:51, what the hell does he know?! His angles happen to be flawless!

[@epipd5712]

I heard that too, how rude of him. Nelson had great angles in there, especially of Warhol! like Wow

[@TS-qq7vr]

Followed by a top of the heap drag queen, "Oh look, it's Uncle Nelson."

[@TS-qq7vr]

To be honest, his camera work in this crowded, jostling environment isn't as awesome as his street videos. Some of his final videos back home in the South are absolutely amazing for his fluid steady hand with a heavy camera. For anyone who hasn't seen them, watch his trip to the mall in Atlanta with RuPaul where he goes downstairs to film the sculpture or his walking tours in Kershaw, SC. Damned guy held that thing like it was a solid mounted, feather weight GoPro.

[@WingedMatchbox]

I miss the 80s

[@LS_777]

All the footages of NS are pure gold! 💎❤️❤️

[@brucewebb1114]

The cool thing is that no one had cell phones. Everyone was participating. I love those times

[@MentalUnrest]

Bruce Webb it is nice to see, however it’s only because they weren’t around. It’s just a sign of the times and nothing to do with people being different. If iPhones were around in the 80’s people would have their faces buried in them. Same as today.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

@@MentalUnrest modern technology is dependent on your anxiety, do a little research on neuromarketing and go get a flip phone. there is a reason millennials are a fucked up disaster of a generation, and its not just they would have been better being raised by wolves instead of boomers.

[@TheIndependentLens]

@@MentalUnrest Safe Spaces in the sand . . . Go drifting into the sea . . . Eventually . . . The people were different because of not having all that waste of time BS. I'm sorry if you're still on Facebook.

[@spookshow6999]

Ugh everyone comments this. We know. Everything sucks now. Literally.

[@1953childstar]

@@MentalUnrest Good point !!!

[@KayInMaine]

So cool! I thought Andy Warhol was very gracious (and not a jerk like people say he was).

[@bowieaddict3178]

Wonderful video.

[@kimberlyann8555]

David Bowie played Andy Warhol in Basquiat, Love that movie

[@halfmt4643]

Just another reason to love the 1980s. There has never been a better decade since.

[@planetX15]

Didn't like the 90s?

[@matemahe]

@@planetX15 cell phones killed civilization

[@edeneverly2573]

The comment doesn’t say anything about the 90s. Why even bring it up? Since you did, I frogging loathe the wannabe fools that claim the 99s was the last great decade. It was the 80s that was the last great decade in every way. The 90s had some good stuff, much of it some roll over from the late 80s. But by 95 it was BORRRIINNNGGG! God what a snooze fest. And everything that was great (80s) had faded away. Everyone walked around in flower dresses and loafers, grungy shit and all the color drained. It was really fucking boring. I recall thinking how boring everything was and I lived it. I got out of college in 94 and it just got so blah.

[@TS-qq7vr]

@@edeneverly2573: The 1980s sucked donkey dong. The 1990s were better movies, less oppressive than the Reagan preppy culture, but the music sucked absolute rooster cock.

[@bananabread6148]

@@TS-qq7vr The 90's had some great music. Stereolab is one of my favorites of all time.

[@davidebiotech2]

those polaroids and 110 pocket cameras...

[@noongourfain]

I was 20...My mom was still working at Interview.

[@jacknjill3000]

Wow and that was Warhol’s magazine and I used to have a subscription.

[@lupelupelupe]

omg someone had the nerve to correct andy's heart art?! :P

[@arthurstillfried2946]

I thought the same! I liked the heart how it was..open

[@danjones3176]

Andy loved being told what to do.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

andy looks good

[@marypettit7294]

This channel is amazing some great vids

[@bcbc23]

I spotted Tina Chow and Stephen Sprouse, too

[@jacknjill3000]

Wow and I’ll have to have a closes look and love Tina Chow and Stephen Sprouse. Tina had a twin sister right?

[@jacknjill3000]

In 1983 I was 19 and bought a Fiorucci neon orange nylon motorcycle jacket in San Francisco. I was changing my image and wanted to look more new wave. I only wore it about 3 times bc it was loud. Lol! I ended up selling it at a consignment store a year later bc I couldn’t pull it off. I never saw anyone with that same jacket and now would be a collectors item and could easily go for $500.. Those were fun times being a young person and going clubbing and shopping for clothes and putting your look together. I never got to go to the Fiorucci store in NYC and now wondering if it was still open when I first visited NYC in 87. Oh and I remember the jeans came rolled up in a tin can. Oh and the other big brand was Parachute and they had many stores in NYC and Reminiscence that made like basics that had a vintage feel.

[@steveclark3879]

Brilliant.

[@gwennquagmire3839]

8:04 ANDY taking pics. Meta making Meta before Meta was Meta!

[@russiaboy58]

James St James got an autograph; so cute:]

[@TS-qq7vr]

What time is he at? Never mind, got him. 3:15

[@Shannon_Lynn]

And to think just a year later Andy dies :(

[@annother3350]

01:26 er... You missed a bit Andy....

[@TS-qq7vr]

"Holy shit!" (She points her finger right in it)

[@bxlis]

it was better without that fucking line

[@slipknotmascaras250]

Magnifico exprendido showwww!✌

[@jacoblara4820]

It would just be the coolest thing ever if he got footage of Basquiat considering this is when he was most popular and especially being in New York

[@drinkingpoolwater]

this is also right around the time basquiat and warhol were working together. warhol died a year after this.

[@alexkastano96]

wow usually there is a 4 -6 dislikes under of every Nelsons video...and this one got none...))

[@stevengallant6363]

A week after Valentine's day 1987, Andy died.

[@LiuLoki]

3:59 alguém falando português

[@spectaclereplication]

Tina Chow 2:08

[@pappasmurfsharem]

Thanks for posting a time. There's so little footage of her that even seeing 5 secs. of her is desirable lol

[@rominanomi]

Quindecillion So cute tina!!! unforgettable!!!

[@TS-qq7vr]

Who the hell is Tina Chow?

[@TS-qq7vr]

Who?

[@jacknjill3000]

RIP Tina - Chow. Doesn’t Tina have a twin sister?

[@reynaerica]

@8:07 looks like Yoko Ono.

[@guydreamr]

Sure does look like her, good catch.

[@mrbipolarmattyhoward6071]

Imagine knowing what we know now back then 😂

[@Rogue-bh4ds]

The 80's wow Big hair, Big makeup, Big cars, Big ego's

[@TheIndependentLens]

Way less Victim playing and virtue signaling . . . It was heaven!

[@edeneverly2573]

Yup! Big egos? Nah, more like being the biggest, boldest you or whoever you wanted to be and authentic creative expression while not giving a fuck! Oh, and bitches on Ibstagram these days? Yea, their makeup every single friggin day is WAY bigger than what we wore. They are dressed up and some in drag so of course they have a lot of makeup. Twits these days wear pounds of makeup with purple tinted grease highlighter, green lipstick and extensions to their knees and you’ve got something to say about the 80s?! Get the fuck out of here. The “big” came out for dress up. Otherwise, IG bitches got us beat.

[@TS-qq7vr]

@@edeneverly2573, big egos confirmed.

[@juliedobson3039]

Jealousy is a curse , you missed out …….it was Fantastic……..👌

[@teeniebeenie8774]

whatev happend to billy boy? she fade out???

[@teeniebeenie8774]

and how

[@vanHoogenboom]

@@teeniebeenie8774 On 13 February 1998 BillyBoy* and partner Jean Pierre Lestrade ("Lala") founded the Foundation Tanagra (non-profit) in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. In 2012 the website of the Foundation was updated to reflect the creation of a future museum in Delémont.

[@ditavalerio615]

Drives me nuts when I see ppl getting their skin sign when it’s going to wash right off

[@daveclima5497]

Andy Warhol is descendant of Eastern Slovaks xD

[@403error4]

It’s more like a fashion show i think!

[@drinkingpoolwater]

how did nelson never capture basquiat on film. was he that mythical? i guess it was that nelson didn’t run with artists too much. he more of a nightlife guy.

[@portlandsamber]

Good to know. I keep looking for him.

[@drinkingpoolwater]

@@portlandsamber i've watched a lot of these and i've never seen him.

[@noongourfain]

I went to H.S. with Basquiat. I was younger and never was in class with him. I heard one teacher say: "I rarely dislike any of my students. But I didn't like HIM!" That's OK...he wasn't H.S. material and just did not care. It probably showed. The same teacher didn't like my father either. My dad went in and told them I had the perfect body to be a runner. Well I had no interest in running. That same teacher was an avid jogger and did not believe that running well required a certain type of body. The teacher told me so after my dad left.

[@houseofshuffles449]

Awww...he didn't even give anyone a gold-painted telephone and tell them they could use it to talk to God :-P

[@optimusgotslimed3175]

the Ramones when I was young

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Anyone know the woman in pink on Andy's right? Its making me crazy.

[@TheIndependentLens]

She is KeeKee Von Poohnahnee. She's *AMAZING!*

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

The 80's was the time period in pop culture where a lot of the now-iconic artists and stars started out from the underground or grassroots indie movement. They did nearly everything themselves, no fancy studio labels, no contracts with huge advertising agencies, nada. The decades after the 80's, artists already had studio label contracts or were in prominent art circles before they got famous in mainstream. The beginning of the manufactured cookie-cutter pop stars era. Only a few truly grassroots independent artists manage to make it popular in mainstream after the 80's.

[@jmb1666]

I love watching these videos, yet I would never want to hang out with these people😂 Just a bunch of vapid narcissists...Nelson is the most entertaining of all💗

[@LisaMarie-xp4ym]

I don’t know, looks bloody fun to me!! I know I would be very happy joining in!!

[@jmb1666]

@@LisaMarie-xp4ym Too much idle chatter for me. No one really looks like they're having fun...Andy wants to get the hell outta there. But love the 80's scene :)

[@TS-qq7vr]

Of course Warhol has Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones playing.

[@ronaldgentle1145]

love bizarre by Prince

[@drinkingpoolwater]

I wonder if Nelson captured the girl who ripped andys wig off. that happened at this event.

[@soniacomelli339]

No, the wig thing happened at Rizzoli store: in "The Andy Warhol's diaries" they use this footage for make the episode more complete and real for the viewers.

[@drinkingpoolwater]

@@soniacomelli339 ah i wasn't even aware they used this footage. great doc tho.

[@noongourfain]

Andy Warhol said he would go to the opening of an envelope... Or was that what someone said about him? Well this isn't just any opening it's for HIS book so...not just an envelope.

[@TS-qq7vr]

Nelson's camera skills weren't as great here as in his later videos.

[@gusto8585]

The Days that will never be relived.....EVERYTHING nowadays is SOO BASIC N PLASTIC

[@ambellawaves2633]

I like how Andy would have to Google how to give a fuck.....!!! He's so unimpressed and can't wait to leave.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

are they all loaded? ev one so happi why would andy put himself thru this mess?

[@LisaMarie-xp4ym]

Bad angles!

[@Carl6801force]

Put down the cocaine and let the rubber dick go.

[@95KIPPIE]

I’ll take it these peoples names who are being shown on the screen aren’t celebrities? There’s no way that they are, I’ve never heard of any of them. Oh just people who want their name on the screen, duh😊