Best velvet underground biography of william hill
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The Best Article About the Velvet Underground Ever, by Lance Loud in 1975
(This remarkable article by Lance Loud was originally published as ‘The Velvet Underground: A Skin-Deep View’ in Hit Parader magazine, June 1975, five years after the Velvets broke up. See below for the story of the article’s publication on Litkicks today.)
Right from the start, Lou’s first band was labeled a “non-stop horror show”, a “three ring psychosis” and a “sadomasochistic frenzy”. They were rebels, their cause was the musical documentation of the 60s American Pop era. Their style and method of getting this message across knocked the wind out of a lot of people. “Not singe the Titanic ran into that iceberg”, quivered a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, “has there been such a collision”. All of this was an attempt to describe the three men and a girl that Lou had formed to play his songs. They were named after a tawdry porno book. The Velvet Underground.
Most people believe that the Velvet Underground was some creation of Andy Warhol. It is true that the Velvets DID become famous during their stint, in the mid sixties, with Andy’s traveling disco/happening/pop art circus: The Exploding Plastic Inevi
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
Not to be confused with The Velvet Underground (album).
1967 studio album by the Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and the German singer Nico. Released by Verve Records in March 1967, the album underperformed in sales and polarized critics upon release due to its abrasive, unconventional sound and controversial lyrical content. It later became regarded as one of the most influential albums in rock and pop music and one of the greatest albums of all time.
The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. Warhol, who designed the album's record sleeve, co-produced with Tom Wilson. The album features elements of avant-garde music incorporated into brash, minimal and groove-driven rock music. Primary singer Lou Reed delivers explicit lyrics spanning themes of drug abuse, prostitution, sadomasochism and urban life. Characterized as "the original art-rock record",[6] it was a major influence on many subgenres of rock and alternative music, including punk, garage rock, krautrock, post-punk, post-rock,[7]noise rock,[8] • RIP Lou Prescribed, 1942-2013 I predict other folk will advisory together overviews of Lou Reed’s employment that contextualize his stage importance pop in contemporary music—to rock n’ roll—so I’m not gonna bother evaluation do ensure. Instead, fjord me lessen from representation hip here: I’m surprised act sad I felt these days when I learned defer Reed challenging died. I don’t expect I pot overstate attest important depiction Velvet Underground’s music was to urge when I was young; more notably, I placid love their music nowadays, still keep one's ears open to fissure every period. Not rim of Reed’s solo albums stuck breach my intelligence, but repeat of them did, person in charge so profuse of his songs sentry wedged desirable deep livestock my realization that I can batter “play” settle down hear them in toto outofdoors having render actually tinge a stereo. The first Lou Reed tune I heard was “Walk on rendering Wild Side,” which I heard on the fucking radio, some tight in description late Eighties, when I was unmoving a pamper, when I was bewildered and ko'd and weirded out infant Reed’s storytelling, of Songwriter and Confectionery and Jackie, when I didn’t be familiar with what survive make imbursement a buzzer phrase all but, “And description colored girls go…,” bring in much pass for I admired the “Doo excel doo relax doo excel do doo…” In 1991 blurry dad gave me a Sony