History always presents itself in a fashion where everyone was once famous. The Warhol decade was full of decadence; style and art–all housed in one factory. Let’s sit down for the Glenn O’Brien Interview. Long live Andy…

For most of us, we were being conceived during the life and times of Andy Warhol’s Factory days. These rare hidden YouTube videos of Andy just won’t let up. Ohh Andy. But let’s talk entourage, and that brings me to Glenn O’Brien.

“Glenn O’Brien graduated from Georgetown, where he edited The Georgetown Journal (founded by Condé Nast—the person, not the company). He was editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview, then New York bureau chief of Rolling Stone. After a year growing a beard at Playboy he became the first Editor-at-Large in magazine history at High Times, a title which he intended to mean that his whereabouts were unknown. For 12 years he wrote the column “Glenn O’Brien’s Beat” for Interview, and was the magazine’s Tri-State Editor—which he intended to mean wakefulness, dreaming, and deep sleep. He was the singer and songwriter of the band Konelrad, the world’s first socialist-realist rock band. He produced and starred in Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party, which David Letterman called “the greatest TV show ever,” and he wrote and produced the film Downtown 81, starring Jean-Michel Basquiat. He has also worked as a stand-up comedian and an advertising creative director and copywriter. He is a Pisces with Aquarius rising, is married, and has two children. He lives in New York.”-GQ magazine

Throughout O’Brien’s career it’s evident that he’s an Icon largely in the subjects of music, fashion, and creative directing and falls nothing short of a Living Legend.

Links:
The Style Guy *GQ magazine