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The Velvet Underground
Author | : Michael Leigh |
Publsiher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781909923416 |
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Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in The Velvet Underground, a legendary exposé of the diseased underbelly of ’60s American society. The book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock’n’roll group, whose songs were to mirror its themes of depravity and social malaise. Welcome to the sexual twilight zone...
The Velvet Underground s The Velvet Underground and Nico
Author | : Joe Harvard |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2004-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826415509 |
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the recording process. With input from co-producer Norman Dolph and Velvets fan Jonathan Richman, Harvard documents the creation of a record which - in the eyes of many - has never been matched. EXCERPT In 1966, some studios, like Abbey Road, had technicians in white lab coats, and even the less formal studios usually had actual engineering graduates behind the consoles. Studios were still more about science than art. Clients who dared make technical suggestions were treated with bemusement, derision, or hostility. The Velvets were a young band under constant critical attack, and the pressure to conform in order to gain acceptance must have been tremendous. Most bands of that era compromised with their record companies, through wholesale revamping of their image from wardrobe to musical style, changing or omitting lyrics, creating drastically edited versions for radio airplay, or eliminating songs entirely from their sets and records. With Andy Warhol in the band's corner, such threats were minimized.
Notes from the Velvet Underground
Author | : Howard Sounes |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781473508958 |
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**** COMPELLING - The Sunday Telegraph CONTROVERSIAL ... Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed narrative - The New York Times Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American songwriters of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured life. In this in-depth, meticulously researched and very entertaining biography, respected biographer Howard Sounes examines the life and work of this fascinating man, from birth to death, including his time as the leader of The Velvet Underground - one of the most important bands in rock'n'roll. Written with a deep knowledge and understanding of the music, Sounes also sheds entirely new light on the artist's creative process, his mental health problems, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to drugs and alcohol. In the course of his research, Sounes has interviewed over 140 people from every part of Lou Reed's life - some of whom have not spoken publicly about him before - including music industry figures, band members, fellow celebrities, family members, former wives and lovers. This book brings Lou Reed and his world alive.
Seeing the Light
Author | : Rob Jovanovic |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781429942263 |
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With exclusive new interviews from the band, this is a captivating account of one of the most influential groups in rock history. Brian Eno famously said "the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Perhaps no other musicians can claim such limited chart success and so enduring a musical legacy as The Velvet Underground. Artists including David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Nirvana, U2, R.E.M., and even dissident Czech playwright and eventual president Václav Havel have cited the Velvets as a major influence. Seeing the Light presents the untold story of the band. Formed by the mercurial Lou Reed and classically trained Welshman John Cale in the mid-1960s, the band first gained notoriety after being adopted by Andy Warhol. Warhol's patronage allowed the group to chart unexplored regions of rock 'n' roll, producing unforgettable and unsettling music that veered from droning, avant-garde experimentalism to folk-infused pop, offering taboo-busting tales of drug addiction, prostitution, and sexual deviance. Creative tensions and frustrated ambition eventually saw both Cale and Reed leave the band, to its ignominious end. In the decades since, The Velvet Underground's music has attained classic status, revered alongside The Beatles and The Beach Boys as one of the sources of modern pop. With exclusive new interviews from members Moe Tucker and Doug Yule, as well as the widow of their bandmate Sterling Morrison, journalist Rob Jovanovic peels back the mystique of one of the most important bands in rock history.
The Velvet Underground Experience
Author | : Carole Mirabello,J. C. Gabel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1732056137 |
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Compiled from archival ephemera, unpublished photographs, films, album covers, posters, fanzines, letters, testimonies, and poems, this monograph gathers anew the Velvet Underground Experience exhibition that opened in Paris in 2016 for a US audience, recreating the sound, visual, and emotional experiences of the underground scenes in New York, where extravagances were always allowed.
The Story of the Velvet Underground
Author | : Prosperi Buri |
Publsiher | : Europe Comics |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2021-05-26T02:00:00+02:00 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9791036883675 |
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The Beach Boys and the Beatles are filling up the airwaves, but halfway between California and Liverpool, another band is putting together a sound that will change rock ‘n’ roll forever. Andy Warhol discovers the Velvet Underground in a little tourist bar in New York, and he soon becomes the producer for this group whose songs aren’t so much about girls and hot rods but shooting up, alternative lifestyles, and the melancholy after the party. It’s the late sixties, but not quite everything is flower power. The radio wants nothing to do with the Velvets, but the cool kids know who they are, and the enormous influence of this short-lived band has yet to abate.
Beyond the Velvet Underground
Author | : Dave Thompson |
Publsiher | : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0711916918 |
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"Beyond the Velvet Underground follows the careers of the VU stars in the years that followed the band's demise ..."--Cover.
The Velvet Underground
Author | : Jim DeRogatis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1584233796 |
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Hardly anyone bought The Velvet Underground's albums when they were released, but most everyone who did formed a band. This was the kind of influence the Velvets axerted, and it persists to this day in the sounds of groungs as diverse as Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, R.E.M., My Bloody Valentine, and Sonic Youth - all of whom claim the Velvets as their most important influence. This book offers behind-the-scenes look at how 'The Velvet Underground' did it.