April 29th, 1979, Jean Michel Basquiat and Michael Holman met for the first time at “The Canal Zone” party, and decided to start a band together.
Gradually, they invited various Downtown artists to join the group, first Shannon Dawson, then Wayne Clifford, then Nick Taylor and eventually Vincent Gallo. In 1981, Basquiat named his industrial sound band, Gray. Jean named the band after Gray’s Anatomy, an important reference source for his later paintin читать дальше...
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