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John Giorno

John Giorno (1936-2019) was an American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass communication experiment Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film "Sleep". He was also an AIDS activist and fundraiser. Giorno was born in New York. In 1962, while in his early 20s and working in New York as a stockbroker, he met Andy Warhol. Giorno and Warhol are said to have remained very close until 1964, after which time their meetings were rare. Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1Give It To Me, Baby (1967)
1327
2We Got Here Yesterday, We're Here Now, and I Can't Wait to Leave Tomorrow
616
3I Don't Need It, I Didn't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It
533
4Stretching It Wider
517
5Exiled in Domestic Life
488
6Completely Attached to Delusion
461
7Suicide Sutra
438
8Eating the Sky
300
9Grasping At Emptiness
228
10Give It to Me, Baby
223

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