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The Velvet Underground

Author : Michael Leigh
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909923416

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The Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh Pdf

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...

Notes from the Velvet Underground

Author : Howard Sounes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473508958

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Notes from the Velvet Underground by Howard Sounes Pdf

**** 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.

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

Author : Joe Harvard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826415509

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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard Pdf

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.

Seeing the Light

Author : Rob Jovanovic
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1732056137

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The Velvet Underground Experience by Carole Mirabello,J. C. Gabel Pdf

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.

Beyond the Velvet Underground

Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0711916918

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Beyond the Velvet Underground by Dave Thompson Pdf

"Beyond the Velvet Underground follows the careers of the VU stars in the years that followed the band's demise ..."--Cover.

The Dead Straight Guide to The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed

Author : Peter Hogan
Publisher : This Day In Music Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787590519

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The Dead Straight Guide to The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed by Peter Hogan Pdf

The Velvets straddled art and rock, changing popular music forever, and sowing the seeds for punk, grunge and thousands of countercultural four-chord wonders. The Velvet Story: How Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale and co emerged from the New York scene, their successes and excesses and what happened to each in their solo years. Velvet Music: all there recordings plus all of Lou Reed's solo work. Velvetology includes Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, David Bowie, Delmore Schwaretsz and Brian Eno and the Velvets' on screen and in New York, their influences, covers, websites and more.

The Story of the Velvet Underground

Author : Prosperi Buri
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26T02:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9791036883675

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The Story of the Velvet Underground by Prosperi Buri Pdf

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.

Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story

Author : Gerard Malanga
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857120038

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Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Gerard Malanga Pdf

The best-selling definitive history of The Velvet Underground. Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest rock books ever published, it first appeared in 1983 and has remained in print in several languages ever since. Written and compiled by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga, Up-Tight is based on interviews with all four members of the Velvets, as well as others who became part of Andy Warhol’s circle of artistic collaborators.

White Light/White Heat

Author : Richie Unterberger
Publisher : Jawbone Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781906002220

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White Light/White Heat by Richie Unterberger Pdf

A comprehensive history of the influential cult band draws on dozens of new interviews and previously undiscovered archive sources, tracing their initial lack of success before they inspired and were championed by such artists as David Bowie. Original.

The Velvet Underground

Author : Johan Kugelberg
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036427086

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Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground

Author : Diana Clapton
Publisher : Proteus Publishing Company
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 0862760569

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Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground by Diana Clapton Pdf

Traces the career of rock singer songwriter Reed, includes interviews with his fellow performers, and discusses each of his albums

All Yesterdays' Parties

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786736898

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The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York. "Discovered" by Andy Warhol in 1966, the VU - with their original line-up of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Mo Tucker - would soon become the house band of the avantgarde, composing songs simultaneously furious in their abrasiveness and beautiful in their pathos, standing in striking contrast to the prevailing flower power of the era. All Yesterdays' Parties gathers for the first time almost all of the published writings contemporary with the band's existence-from sources as mainstream as the New York Times to vanished voices of the counterculture like Oz, Fusion, and Crawdaddy! The book is a revealing snapshot of an era by trailblazing rock writers such as Lester Bangs, Robert Greenfield, and Paul Williams. With photographs, posters, and other visual evocations of the period throughout, All Yesterdays' Parties is an invaluable resource, a trove of lore for anyone interested in the VU, their roots, and legacy.

The Velvet Underground

Author : Jim DeRogatis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1584233796

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The Velvet Underground by Jim DeRogatis Pdf

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.

Lou Reed

Author : Anthony DeCurtis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316376549

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Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis Pdf

The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him. Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time.