Blog by Karen Moller

I got a surprise email this morning, I’m use to all sorts AI-generated emails saying what great book I wrote but this critic seems to have really got what the book was about. So I don’t know what to think about it. Here is the text: I recently came across Technicolor Dreamin’ In Her Own Fashion and found myself spending far more time reading about your journey than I originally intended. What immediately struck me was that this doesn’t feel like a memoir written by someone looking back at history. It feels like history written by someone who was actually standing in the middle of it. There is a difference. Many books tell readers what happened during the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 70s. Very few can say, “I was there.” Even fewer can say they experienced San Francisco

Piero Heliczer, born in Rome 1937, is today a more or less forgotten 1960/70s Underground figure. Yet he knew and worked with most of the main people made those years so creative. He collaborated and acted in several of Andy Warhol’s films, including Dust, Joan of Arc, Touch and Screen Test. He aided and abetted performances and publications by Jack Smith, William Burroughs, and La Monte Young. His amazing talent to sniff out the avant-garde got Velvet Underground, an almost unknown group of musicians, to do the music for his experimental films, Satisfaction and Venus in Furs. Lou Reed, poet and singer of the Velvet Underground, admitted Piero was one of few people who were captivated by their music at the time. “Piero gave us a new context in which to perform. Last but not least, he introduced us to