With Nico in 1966, from left to right by row: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Nico, Maureen Tucker photo by David Horvitz and Adam Dower
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York, USA
Genre(s)	Experimental rock, Art rock, Protopunk, Noise rock
Years active	1965–1973, 1990, 1992–1994, 1996
Label(s)	Verve, MGM, Atlantic, Polydor, Mercury, Sire
Associated acts	Nico Theater of Eternal Music
Former members
Lou Reed John Cale Sterling Morrison (deceased) Angus Maclise (deceased) Maureen Tucker Doug Yule Walter Powers Willie Alexander

The Velvet Underground (sometimes shortened to The Velvets or The VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. Its best-known members are Lou Reed and John Cale. The Velvet Underground is a pocket book by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on sexual paraphilia in the USA, published in September, 1963. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 69 pixel Image in higher resolution (1945 × 168 pixel, file size: 28 KB, MIME type: image/png) Velvet Underground logo, culled from promotional poster. ... Image File history File links VU_66promophoto. ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ... For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ... Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York, United States) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NY” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Experimental rock or Avant rock is a type of art music based on rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. ... Art rock is a term used by some to describe rock music that is characterized by ambitious or avant-garde lyrical themes and/or melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard modern popular music forms and genres, toward influences in jazz, classical, world music or the experimental avant... Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. ... Lightning Bolt Live at the Southgate House 2005. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ... MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1946. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ... Sire Records Company is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. ... For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ... It was a mid-sixties experimental musical group featuring La Monte Young and John Cale. ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ... Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ... Angus MacLise (March 4, 1938 - June 21, 1979) was a percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist and calligrapher. ... Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York, United States) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ... Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25, 1947) is an American musician and singer, most notable for being a member of The Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. ... Walter Powers III is a bass guitarist best known for having been a member of The Velvet Underground from late 1970 until late 1971. ... Willie Alexander & The Confessiones, LP, Somor Music 1982. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...

Although never commercially successful during their time, the Velvet Underground have been regarded as one of the most important and influential groups of their era.^[1] A famous remark, often attributed to British musician Brian Eno, is that while only a few thousand people bought the first Velvet Underground record upon its release, almost every single one of them was inspired to start a band.^[2] The group was one of the first to experiment with basic rock structures,^[3] and their sound influenced many later musicians in many genres, including experimental, punk, New Wave, and gothic rock. Brian Eno (pronounced ) (born Brian Peter George St. ... Experimental rock or Avant rock is a type of art music based on rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The New Wave was a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City musical scene centered around the club CBGB. The term itself is a source of much confusion. ... Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ...

Career

Pre-history (1964–1965)

The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer/guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records, which Reed described as being “a poor man’s Carole King”.^[4] Reed met John Cale, a Welshman who had moved to the United States to study classical music. Cale had worked with experimental composers John Cage and La Monte Young, but was also interested in rock music. (Young’s use of extended drones would be a profound influence on the early Velvets’ sound). Cale was pleasantly surprised to discover Reed’s experimentalist tendencies were similar to his own: Reed sometimes used alternate guitar tunings to create a droning sound. The pair rehearsed and performed together, and their partnership and shared interests steered the early direction of what would become the Velvet Underground. Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Garage band is a general term for startup rock bands, often consisting of teenagers and twenty-somethings. ... A onetime record company, most notable for its releases of sound-alike recordings, bargain bin reissues and repackages, and childrens records. ... Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ... This article is about the country. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ... La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. ... In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built. ...

Reed’s first group with Cale was the Primitives, a short-lived group assembled to support a Reed-penned single, “The Ostrich”. Reed and Cale recruited Sterling Morrison—a college classmate of Reed’s who had already played with him a few times—to play guitar, and Angus MacLise joined on percussion. This quartet was first called the Warlocks, then the Falling Spikes. Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ... Angus MacLise (March 4, 1938 - June 21, 1979) was a percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist and calligrapher. ...

The Velvet Underground was a book about sadomasochism by Michael Leigh that Reed found when he moved into his New York City apartment (left by previous tenant Tony Conrad). Reed and Morrison have reported the group liked the name, considering it evocative of “underground cinema”, and fitting, due to Reed’s already having written “Venus in Furs”, inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s book of the same name, also dealing with sadomasochism. The band immediately and unanimously adopted the book's title for its new name. The Velvet Underground is a pocket book by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on sexual paraphilia in the USA, published in September, 1963. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. ... Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (January 27, 1836 – March 9, 1895), writer and journalist, was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). ...

Early stages (1965–1966)

The newly named Velvet Underground rehearsed and performed in New York City. Their music was generally much more relaxed than it would later become: Cale described this era as reminiscent of beatnik poetry, with MacLise playing gentle “pitter and patter rhythms behind the drone”.^[4] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Beatnik is a media stereotype that borrowed the most superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s to present a distorted (and sometimes violent), cartoon-like misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality found in Jack Kerouacs autobiographical fiction. ...

In July 1965, Reed, Cale and Morrison recorded a demo tape at their Ludlow Street loft. When he briefly returned to Britain, Cale gave a copy of the tape to Marianne Faithfull, hoping she’d pass it on to Mick Jagger. Nothing ever came of the demo, but it was eventually released on the 1995 box set Peel Slowly and See. For other uses, see demo. ... Ludlow Street runs between Houston and Canal Street on Manhattans Lower East Side. ... Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. ... Michael Phillip Mick Jagger CBE (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ... A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is one or more musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related things that are contained in a box. ... Peel Slowly and See is a five-disc box set of material by The Velvet Underground. ...

When the group accepted an offer of $75 for their first paying performance at Summit High School, in Summit, New Jersey, MacLise left the group, protesting what he considered a sellout. “Angus was in it for art”, Morrison reported.^[4] Summit High School is a four-year public high school in Summit, New Jersey and is operated by the Summit Board of Education as a part of the Summit Public Schools. ... Nickname: Location of Summit within Union County and state of New Jersey Coordinates: , Country USA State New Jersey County Union Settled 1710 Incorporation as Township March 23, 1869 Incorporation as City March 8, 1899 Government  - Type Faulkner Act Council-Manager  - Mayor Jordan Glatt  - City Administrator Christopher Cotter Area  - City 15. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... Selling out refers to the compromising of ones integrity, morality and principles in exchange for money, success or other personal gain. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ...

MacLise was replaced by Maureen “Moe” Tucker, the younger sister of Jim Tucker, a friend of Morrison. Tucker’s abbreviated drum kit was rather unusual: she generally played on tom toms and an upturned bass drum, using mallets as often as drumsticks, and she rarely used cymbals. (The band having asked her to do something unusual, she turned her bass drum on its side and played standing up. When her drums were stolen from one club, she replaced them with garbage cans, brought in from outside.) Her rhythms, at once simple and exotic (influenced by the likes of Babatunde Olatunji and Bo Diddley records), became a vital part of the group’s music. The group earned a regular paying gig at a club and gained an early reputation as a promising ensemble. Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York, United States) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenience playing by a single drummer. ... A tom-tom (not to be confused with a tamtam) is a cylindrical drum with no snare. ... A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. ... Look up Mallet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A drum stick is an item used to hit percussion instruments to produce sound. ... For the Japanese rock band, see Cymbals (band). ... Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 - April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer. ... Bo Diddleys emphasis on rhythm largely influenced popular music, especially that of rock and roll in the 1960s. ...

Andy Warhol and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–1967)

Andy Warhol became the band’s manager in 1965 and suggested they feature the German-born singer Nico on several songs. Warhol’s reputation certainly helped the band gain a higher profile. Warhol helped the band land a coveted recording contract with MGM’s Verve Records, with himself as nominal “producer”, and gave the Velvets free rein over the sound they created. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ... A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ...

During their stay with Andy Warhol, the band became part of his multimedia roadshow, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, for which they provided the music. This show played a couple of months in New York City, then took to the road all over the United States and Canada until its last installment in May 1967. The show included 16 mm film projections and colors by Warhol. Exploding. ...

In 1966 MacLise temporarily rejoined the Velvet Underground for a few EPI shows when Reed was suffering from hepatitis and unable to perform. For these appearances, Cale sang and played organ and Tucker switched to bass guitar. Also at these appearances, the band often played an extended jam they had dubbed “Booker T”, after the leader of the musical group Booker T. and the MG’s; the jam later became the music for “The Gift” on White Light/White Heat. Some of these performances have been released as a bootleg; they remain the only record of MacLise with the Velvet Underground. MacLise was said to be eager to rejoin the group now that they’d found some fame, but Reed specifically prohibited this. Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to liver characterised by presence of inflammatory cells in the liver tissue. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping,popping or using a pick. ... Booker T. & the M.G.s is a soul band, most prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. ... White Light/White Heat is The Velvet Undergrounds second album. ... For other uses, see Bootleg. ...

In December 1966, Warhol and David Dalton designed Issue 3 of the multimedia Aspen.^[5] Included in this issue of the “magazine”, which retailed at $4 per copy and was packaged in a hinged box designed to look like Fab laundry detergent, were various leaflets and booklets, one of which was a commentary on rock and roll by Lou Reed, another an EPI promotional newspaper. Also enclosed was a 2-sided flexi disk, side one produced by Peter Walker, a musical associate of Timothy Leary, and side two titled “Loop”, credited to the Velvet Underground but actually recorded by Cale alone. “Loop”, a recording solely of pulsating audio feedback culminating in a locked groove, was “a precursor to [Reed’s] Metal Machine Music”, say Velvets archivists M.C. Kostek and Phil Milstein in the book The Velvet Underground Companion.^[6] Indeed, “Loop” predates Reed’s almost identical concept (Metal Machine Music being a double album, and being released to a larger audience, obviously with different feedback) by nearly ten years (and also predates much industrial music as well). More significantly, from a retail standpoint, “Loop” was the group’s first commercially available recording as the Velvet Underground. Aspen was a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. ... FAB may mean: Look up fab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A Flexi disc sound recording is a thin vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable. ... Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, PC (born 1932), was Conservative MP for Worcester between March 1961 and April 1992, and the founder of the Tory Reform Group. ... For the American baseball player use Tim Leary (baseball player) Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. ... // A loop is generally something that closes back on itself such as a circle or ring. ... Audio feedback (also known as the Larsen effect) is a special kind of feedback which occurs when a loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker). ... locked groove – impression on a phonograph record deep enough to hold the record needle in place, thereby creating a seemingly endless flow of repeated music. ... Metal Machine Music (sometimes abbreviated MMM) is an album by Lou Reed. ... It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ...

The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

At Warhol's insistence, Nico sang with the band on three songs off their début album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. The album was recorded in three separate studios during 1966; primarily in Scepter Studios in New York City during April. It was released by Verve Records in March 1967. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ... Alternate covers The early LP edition with the banana sticker peeled off. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ...

The album cover was famous for its Warhol design: a bright yellow banana with “Peel slowly and see” printed near a perforated tab. Those who did remove the banana skin found a pink, peeled banana beneath. This would later be used as the cover to one of several Velvets boxed sets, also titled Peel Slowly and See, released in 1995. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Peel Slowly and See is a five-disc box set of material by The Velvet Underground. ...

Eleven songs showcased their dynamic range, veering from the pounding attacks of "I’m Waiting for the Man" and "Run Run Run", the droning "Venus in Furs" and "Heroin" to the quiet "Femme Fatale" and the tender "I’ll Be Your Mirror", as well as Warhol's own favorite song of the group, the magnificent "All Tomorrow’s Parties". Im Waiting for the Man is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground. ... Run Run Run is a song by French rock band Phoenix and is featured on their second studio album, Alphabetical. ... Venus in Furs is a song by The Velvet Underground, originally released on the album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967). ... Heroin is a song by The Velvet Underground, released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. ... Femme Fatale is a song by The Velvet Underground. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ...

The overall sound was propelled by Reed’s deadpan vocals, Cale's droning viola, Morrison's often rhythm and blues– or country-influenced guitar, and Tucker’s simple but steady beat. Nico's European-accented vocal contributions lent an otherworldly quality to the group. The viola (French, alto; German Bratsche) is a bowed string instrument. ... For other uses, see Rhythm and blues (disambiguation). ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

• March 12, 1967: The Velvet Underground and Nico, featuring the famous Andy Warhol–designed "banana" cover, is released, peaking at #171 on Billboard magazine's Top 200 charts.

The promising commercial début of the album was dampened somewhat by legal complications: the album’s back cover featured a photo of the group playing live with another image projected behind them; the projected image was a still from a Warhol motion picture, Chelsea Girls. The film’s cinematographer, Eric Emerson, had been arrested for drug possession and, desperate for money, claimed the still had been included on the album without his permission (in the image his face appears quite big, but upside down). MGM Records pulled all copies of the album until the legal problems were settled (by which time the record had lost its modest commercial momentum), and the still was airbrushed out. is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... Chelsea Girls is a 1966 film directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. ... ‹ The template below is being considered for deletion. ...

White Light/White Heat (1968)

The Velvet Underground performed live often, and their performances became louder, harsher and often featured extended improvisations. Cale reports that at about this time the Velvet Underground was one of the first groups to receive an endorsement from Vox. The company pioneered a number of special effects, which the Velvet Underground utilized on White Light/White Heat. This is an album cover. ... Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoiding overt references to recognizable musical genres. ... Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer formerly based in Britain, and now owned by Japanese electronics giants Korg, which is most famous for making the AC30 guitar amplifier and the Vox organ. ... White Light/White Heat is The Velvet Undergrounds second album. ...

After the VU severed its relationship with Andy Warhol and Nico, they recorded their second album in September 1967, White Light/White Heat, with Tom Wilson as producer. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

The recording was raw and oversaturated. Cale has stated that while the debut had some moments of fragility and beauty, White Light/White Heat was “consciously anti-beauty”.

The title track and first song starts things off with John Cale pounding on the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. The eerie, hallucinatory “Lady Godiva’s Operation” remains Reed’s favorite track on the album. A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935), also known by the nickname The Killer, is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ... Lady Godiva by John Collier, ca 1897 Godiva (or Godgifu) (c. ...

Despite the dominance of noisefests like “Sister Ray” and “I Heard Her Call My Name”, there was room for the darkly comic “The Gift”, a short story written by Reed and narrated by Cale in his deadpan Welsh accent. The meditative “Here She Comes Now” was later covered by Galaxie 500, R.E.M., Cabaret Voltaire, and Nirvana. Sister Ray is a song by The Velvet Underground that closes side two of their 1968 avant-garde rock album White Light/White Heat. ... I Heard Her Call My Name is a song by American avant-garde rock band The Velvet Underground, taken from their album, White Light/White Heat. ... The Gift is an eight-minute or so short story appearing on the 1968 Velvet Underground Album White Light/White Heat. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which humour is presented without exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. ... This article is about the country. ... Album cover for On Fire Galaxie 500 was a seminal slowcore guitar band from the late 1980s. ... This article is about the band. ... Cabaret Voltaire was a British music group from Sheffield, England. ... This article is about the American grunge band. ...

• January 30, 1968: White Light/White Heat, the second Velvet Underground album, is released. White Light/White Heat entered the Billboard Top 200 chart for 2 weeks, at number 199.

However, tensions were growing: the group was tired of receiving little recognition for its work, and Reed and Cale were pulling the Velvet Underground in different directions. The differences showed in the last recording session the band had with John Cale in February 1968: two pop-like songs in Reed’s direction (“Temptation Inside Your Heart” and “Stephanie Says”) and a viola-driven drone in Cale’s direction (“Hey Mr. Rain”). (None of these songs were released until they were included on the VU and Another View compilation albums.) Further, some songs the band had performed with Cale in concert, or that he had co-written, were not recorded until after he had left the group (such as “Walk It and Talk It”, “Guess I’m Falling in Love”, “Ride into the Sun”, and “Countess from Hong Kong”). is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ... Another View is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ... A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ...

The Velvet Underground (1969)

Before work on their third album started, Cale was eased out of the band and was replaced by Doug Yule of Boston group the Glass Managerie, who had opened several VU shows. The Velvet Underground was recorded in late 1968 (released in March 1969). The cover photograph was taken by Billy Name. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25, 1947) is an American musician and singer, most notable for being a member of The Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. ... The Velvet Underground is the eponymous third album by The Velvet Underground, their first with Doug Yule, John Cales replacement. ... Billy Name (born 22 February 1940 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Original name: William Billy Linich) is an American artist, photographer, film-maker and was a close friend to Andy Warhol and one of the Warhol superstars. ...

• March 12, 1969: The self-titled third Velvet Undergound album is released. It fails to make Billboard’s Top 200 album chart.

It has often been reported that the early edition of the Velvet Underground was a struggle between Reed and Cale's creative impulses: Reed's rather conventional approach contrasted with Cale's experimentalist tendencies; according to Tim Mitchell, Morrison has reported that there was creative tension between Reed and Cale but that its impact has been exaggerated over the years.^[7] is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...

In any case, the harsh, abrasive tendencies on the first two records were almost entirely absent on their third platter, The Velvet Underground. This resulted in a gentler sound influenced by folk music, prescient of the songwriting style that would form Reed's solo career. Another factor in the change of sound was the band's Vox amplifiers and assorted fuzzboxes being stolen from an airport while they were on tour; they obtained replacements by signing a new endorsement deal with Sunn.^{[citation needed]} In addition, Reed and Morrison had purchased matching Fender 12-string electric guitars. Doug Yule plays down the influence of the new equipment, however. Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including: Traditional music: The original meaning of the term folk music was synonymous with the term Traditional music, also often including World Music and Roots music; the term Traditional music was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the... Vox is the Latin word for voice. ... The Fender Electric XII was a purpose-built 12-string electric guitar, designed for folk rockers. ...

Morrison's ringing guitar parts and Yule's melodic bass guitar and harmony vocals are featured prominently on the album. Reed's songs and singing are subdued and confessional, and he shared lead vocals with Yule, particularly when his own voice would fail under stress. Doug Yule sang the lead vocal on "Candy Says", which opens the LP, and a rare Maureen Tucker vocal is featured on "After Hours", a song that Reed said was so innocent and pure he couldn't possibly sing it himself. The album's influence can be heard in many later indie rock and lo-fi recordings. The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping,popping or using a pick. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ...

Year on the road and the "lost" fourth album (1969)

The Velvet Underground spent much of 1969 on the road, feeling they were not accepted in their hometown of New York City and not making much headway commercially. The live album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live was recorded in October 1969 and released in 1974 on Mercury Records at the urging of rock critic Paul Nelson, who worked in A&R for Mercury at the time. Nelson asked singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy to write liner notes for the double album which began, “I wish it was a hundred years from today….” New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ... Paul Nelson (born January 21, 1936, in Warren, Minnesota, and died circa June 28, 2006, in New York City) was a folk and rock music critic who wrote for Sing Out! and Rolling Stone. ... In the music industry, Artists and Repertoire (A&R) refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and artist development. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Elliott James Murphy (born March 16, 1949 in New York, Long Island, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, producer and journalist living in Paris. ...

During the same year, the band recorded on and off in the studio, creating a lot of material that was never officially released due to disputes with their record label. What many consider the prime of these sessions was released many years later as VU. This album has a transitional sound between the whisper-soft third album and the pop-rock songs of their final record, Loaded. VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ... Loaded is The Velvet Undergrounds fourth album. ...

The rest of the recordings, as well as some alternate takes, were bundled on Another View. After Reed’s departure, he later reworked a number of these songs for his solo records (“Stephanie Says”, “Ocean”, “I Can’t Stand It”, “Lisa Says”, “She’s My Best Friend”). Indeed, most of Reed’s early solo career’s more successful hits were reworked Velvet Underground tracks, released for the first time in their original version on VU, Another View, and later on Peel Slowly and See. Another View is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ...

Loaded (1970)

In 1969 MGM Records president Mike Curb wanted to purge any drug- or hippie-related bands from MGM, and the Velvets were on his list, along with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. (Nonetheless, MGM insisted on keeping the tapes of their unissued recordings.) This is an album cover. ... Michael Curb (born December 24, 1944 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American musician, record company executive, race car owner (in both NASCAR and IRL), and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979 until 1983. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia Hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) refers to a member of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, becoming an established social group by 1965, and expanding to other countries before declining in the mid-1970s. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American rock/jazz fusion musician, composer, and satirist. ...

Atlantic Records signed the Velvet Underground for what would be its final studio album with Lou Reed: Loaded, released on Atlantic’s subsidiary label Cotillion. The album’s title refers to Atlantic’s request that the band produce an album “loaded with hits”. Though the record was not the smash hit the company had anticipated, it contains the most accessible pop the VU had performed, and several of Reed’s best-known songs, including "Sweet Jane” and “Rock and Roll”. Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Loaded is The Velvet Undergrounds fourth album. ... Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ...

Though Tucker had temporarily retired from the group due to her pregnancy, she received a performance credit on Loaded. Drums were actually played by several people, including Yule, engineer Adrian Barber, sessioneer Tommy Castanaro, and Doug Yule’s brother Billy, who was still in high school. A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more offspring in an embryonal or fetal stage of development by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies, between the stages of conception and birth. ... William Billy Yule is best known for having been a sit-in drummer for The Velvet Underground during 1970. ...

Disillusioned with the lack of progress the band was making and pressured by manager Steve Sesnick, Reed decided to quit the band in August 1970. The band essentially dissolved while recording the album, and Reed walked off just before it was finished. Lou Reed has often said he was completely surprised when he saw Loaded in stores. He also said, bitterly, “I left them to their album full of hits that I made.” Steven Sesnick was the manager for The Velvet Underground after they fired Andy Warhol. ...

However, Reed was particularly bitter about a verse being edited from the Loaded version of “Sweet Jane”. “New Age” was changed as well: as originally recorded, its closing line (“It’s the beginning of a new age”) was repeated many more times. A brief interlude in “Rock and Roll” was also removed. (Years later, the album would be reissued with the edits restored.) On the other hand, Yule has pointed out that the album was to all intents and purposes finished when Reed left the band and that Reed had been aware of most, if not all, of the edits. The few weeks between Reed’s departure in late August and Loaded’s arrival in the shops in September of the same year also would have left little room for the whole process of editing, reviewing, mastering and pressing. It has been suggested that Sweet Jane (Mott the Hoople version) be merged into this article or section. ... New Age is the fifth song from the 1970 The Velvet Underground album Loaded. It is one of the songs that feature Doug Yule on vocals, encouraged by main singer and songwriter Lou Reed. ...

1970 onwards

Although Loaded’s spin-off single “Who Loves the Sun” did nothing, the album itself is something of a muted triumph. “Sweet Jane” and “Rock and Roll” became U.S. radio favorites^{[citation needed]}, and the band, featuring Walter Powers on bass and Doug Yule promoted to lead vocals and guitar, went on the road once more, playing the U.S. East Coast and Europe. By that time, however, Sterling Morrison had obtained a B.A. degree in English, and left the group for an academic career with the University of Texas at Austin. His replacement was singer/keyboard player Willie Alexander. The band played shows in England, Wales, and the Netherlands, some of which are collected on the 2001 box set Final V.U.. Certain fans began mocking the new lineup as the “Velveteen Underground”. This was perhaps unfair: Yule has expressed discomfort with the group being promoted as the V.U., and extant recordings show that the group performed plenty of newly written material, rather than relying solely on the earlier songs written by Reed. Image File history File links Album cover for The Velvet Undergrounds fifth and final studio album, Squeeze (1973). ... Walter Powers III is a bass guitarist best known for having been a member of The Velvet Underground from late 1970 until late 1971. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... University of Texas redirects here. ... Willie Alexander & The Confessiones, LP, Somor Music 1982. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... Final V.U. 1971-1973 is a live box set consisting of recordings of lineups billed at the time as The Velvet Underground. ...

In 1972 Atlantic released Live at Max's Kansas City, a live bootleg of the Velvet Underground’s final performance with Reed, recorded by fan Brigid Polk on August 23, 1970. By this time Doug Yule was once again touring the United Kingdom, this time backed with hired hands, as Sesnick had sent home Tucker, Powers and Alexander, effectively ending their time with the band. Later that year, Sesnick managed to secure a recording contract with Polydor Records in England, and Yule recorded Squeeze (1973) under the Velvet Underground name with Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice. Live at Maxs Kansas City is a live album by The Velvet Underground. ... For other uses, see Bootleg. ... Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk, born September 6, 1939) is an artist and former Warhol superstar. ... is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920s vintage Polydor export label with its double-horn gramophone logo In 1954 Polydor Records introduced their distinctive orange label. ... Squeeze is the fifth and last studio album to be released under the Velvet Underground name. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Ian Paice Ian Anderson Paice (born June 29, 1948; Nottingham, England) made his name as drummer with seminal heavy rock band Deep Purple. ...

Squeeze is a controversial item among Velvet fans, generally held in low regard by fans and critics: Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes that the album received “uniformly terrible reviews” upon initial release, and was often "deleted" from official V.U. discographies.^[8] Due to perceived middle of the road content, Squeeze is sometimes dismissed out of hand by Velvet Underground fans. However, with the advent of Internet audio file sharing, the previously obscure record has gained some supporters, who speculate that Squeeze might have fared far better if it had been promoted not as a V.U. album, but as Yule's solo debut, with some arguing that some of the songs would not have been out of place on Loaded. Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a music journalist and the Senior Editor for All Music Guide. ... Middle of the Road was a Scottish pop group who enjoyed great success across Europe in the early 1970s. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...

Reed, Cale and Nico teamed up at the beginning of 1972 to play two concerts in London and Paris. The Paris concert performed at the Bataclan club was bootlegged, but finally received an official release as Le Bataclan '72 in 2003. 16 track live album including 2 exclusive bonus tracks (both rehearsals - Pale Blue Eyes & Candy Says). This is the legendary show recorded at the Bataclan Club in Paris, on January 29th, 1972. ...

Post-VU developments (1973–1990)

Reed and Cale, in the meantime, developed solo careers. Sterling Morrison was a professor for some time, teaching Medieval Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, then became a tugboat captain for several years. Maureen Tucker raised a family before returning to small-scale gigging and recording in the 1980s; Morrison was in a number of touring bands, among others with Tucker’s band. University of Texas redirects here. ... A tugboat shown turning a large RORO cargo ship. ...

On July 18, 1988, Nico, the German-born singer and early associate of The Velvet Underground, died of a cerebral hemorrhage following a bicycle accident. is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

The band was name-dropped in the 1982 Fleetwood Mac song “Gypsy” (So I'm back to the Velvet Underground / Back to the floor that I love / To a room with some lace and paper flowers), a reference to songwriter Stevie Nicks returning to her childhood home where she listened to the Velvet Underground as a teenager. Nico was clearly an influence on the very young Nicks, who was just 19 and starting to open for Janis Joplin with Fritz in the Bay Area in 1967 when The Velvet Underground and Nico was released. This article is about the band. ... Gypsy is a song by the rock group Fleetwood Mac. ... Stephanie Lynn Stevie Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a long solo career, which collectively have produced over twenty Top 40 hits. ...

Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel was a fan of the Velvet Underground, ultimately becoming a friend of Lou Reed. Though some attribute the name of the 1989 “Velvet Revolution”, which ended more than 40 years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, to the band, Reed points out that in fact the name Velvet Revolution derives from its peaceful nature—that no one was physically killed (“hurt”) during those events.^[9] After Havel’s election as president, first of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic, Reed visited him in Prague.^[10] On 16 September 1998, at Havel’s request, Reed performed in the White House at a state dinner in Havel’s honor hosted by President Clinton.^[11] A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (IPA: ) (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Non-violent protesters face armoured policemen The Velvet Revolution (Czech: , Slovak: ) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. ... The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana ÄŒeskoslovenska (KSÄŒ) was a political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ... // 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... State dinners in different countries follow different rules and are governed by different protocols. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

Reunions (1990 and 1992–1994)

In 1990, Reed and Cale released Songs for Drella, dedicated to the recently deceased Andy Warhol. (“Drella” was a nickname Warhol had adopted, a combination of “Dracula” and “Cinderella”.) Though Morrison and Tucker had each worked with Reed and Cale since the V.U. broke up, Songs for Drella was the first time the mercurial pair had worked together in decades, and rumors of a reunion began to circulate, fueled by the one-off appearance by Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker to play "Heroin" as the encore to a brief Songs for Drella, set in Jouy-en-Josas, France. Image File history File links VU-1993-1. ... Songs for Drella, released in 1990, is a concept album by Velvet Underground alumni Lou Reed and John Cale. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... Jouy-en-Josas is a French commune in the département of the Yvelines, in the région ÃŽle-de-France, 4 km southeast of Versailles and 19 km southwest of Paris. ...

The Reed–Cale–Morrison–Tucker lineup reunited in 1992, commencing activities with a European tour beginning in Edinburgh on June 1, 1993, and featuring a performance at Glastonbury which garnered an NME front cover. Cale sang most of the songs Nico had originally performed. As well as headlining, the Velvets performed as supporting act for five dates of U2’s Zoo TV Tour. For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see NME (disambiguation). ... U2 (IPA: /ju. ... For the fan club-exclusive album released from this tour, see Zoo TV Live. ...

Before the band could tour the U.S. or record—an MTV Unplugged broadcast and album were proposed and there were vague plans to record a studio album—Cale and Reed fell out again, breaking up the band once more. MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ...

On August 30, 1995, Sterling Morrison died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The band seemed to reach their definitive end as a performing unit with Morrison’s passing. However, this prospect would change when the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Lou Reed and John Cale put their differences aside to reform the Velvet Underground for the last time, with Maureen Tucker in tow. Doug Yule was absent and is said to have been slighted by the band. At the ceremony, the band was inducted by singer/poet Patti Smith, and the band performed "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend", written in tribute to Sterling Morrison. is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ... Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York, United States) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ... Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ...

The Velvet Underground continues to exist as a New York–based partnership managing the financial and back catalog aspects for the band members, but no performances will be forthcoming. In issue number 946 (April 15, 2004), Rolling Stone ranked the band #19 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".^[12] is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the magazine. ...

Discography

Main article: The Velvet Underground discography

Recordings by The Velvet Underground // Category: ...

Studio albums

• The Velvet Underground and Nico (recorded 1966, released 1967)
• White Light/White Heat (recorded 1967, released 1968)
• The Velvet Underground (recorded 1968, released 1969)
• Loaded (recorded and released 1970)
• Squeeze (recorded 1972, released 1973)

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Lineups

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Temporary, live and studio members

• Angus MacLise — sat in on percussion with Tucker switching to bass guitar and Cale and Morrison to lead vocals during a Chicago engagement when Reed was taken ill with hepatitis, June–July 1966.
• Nico — collaborator on vocals with the band on four tracks off The Velvet Underground and Nico and several Exploding Plastic Inevitable engagements, 1966–1967. In addition, about half of the tracks on Nico's 1967 debut LP, Chelsea Girl, feature songs written by and/or featuring Reed, Cale and Morrison. These tracks are generally considered Velvet Underground songs, to the extent that some songs are included on compilations like the Peel Slowly and See box set and the Gold 2-CD set.
• Billy Yule — stand-in on drums for a pregnant Tucker on three tracks off Loaded and at the Max's Kansas City 1970 engagement, including Live at Max's Kansas City; and the 1973 Boston engagement.
• Tommy Castanaro — stand-in on drums for a pregnant Tucker on two tracks off Loaded.
• Adrian Barber — stand-in on drums for a pregnant Tucker on a number of tracks off Loaded.
• Larry Estridge — tour stand-in (bass guitar) for Walter Powers, June 1971.
• Rob Norris — tour member (guitar) for the 1972 UK Squeeze tour.
• George Kay — tour member (bass guitar) for the 1972 UK Squeeze tour and the 1973 Boston engagement.
• Don Silverman — tour member (guitar) for the 1972 UK Squeeze tour.
• Mark Nauseef — tour member (drums) for the 1972 UK Squeeze tour.
• Ian Paice — session musician (drums) for Squeeze (1973).

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See also

• Rock 'n' Roll, by Tom Stoppard
• Václav Havel
• Velvet Revolution

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Notes

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External links

• The Velvet Underground Web Page

Audio

• "Style It Takes" (John Cale on Studio 360 radio program from June 2, 2006); MP3 file; John Cale performing "Style It Takes" (talking about Andy Warhol, the subject of that song).
• "Loop" from Issue 3 of Aspen magazine (December 1966).