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Bio. Long before he was at the forefront of New York’s underground music scene, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed (1942-2013) was a young songwriter, seeking to navigate his sound and establish his career. A self-taught guitarist, the shy, Long Island-bred artist spent much of his youth ...
The band that would become known as The Velvet Underground formed in 1964 out of the remnants of short-lived garage rock band The Primitives.Primitives members Lou Reed and John Cale brought in Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise to form a new quartet initially known as The Warlocks. Reed became the band's vocalist and lead guitarist, with Morrison playing secondary guitar, MacLise playing ...
Frequently bought together. This item: The Best of the Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed. £569. +. The Velvet Underground. £699. Total price: Add both to Basket. One of these items is dispatched sooner than the other.
"Best of the Velvet Underground" is something that the album really has to live up to. Classic alt-rock band the Velvet Underground churned out plenty of good music, and so selecting just fifteen of "the best" is rather too selective. Unfortunately, "Best of the Velvet Underground" DOESN'T live up to its title.
The Best of the Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a 15-track summary of The Velvets' career, borrowing heavily from the debut (six tracks) and featuring "Sweet Jane" and "Rock & Roll," licensed from Atlantic.
Professional ratings. The Very Best of The Velvet Underground is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in Europe on March 31, 2003, by Polydor, the record label that oversees the band's Universal Music Group back catalog. The album was released following a Hyundai television commercial, which featured the band's 1970 ...
8 de dic. de 2022 · Doo-wop music. In 1966, before The Velvet Underground even released their first album, Reed wrote the essay, A View from the Bandstand, for an Andy Warhol-edited issue of Aspen magazine, extolling ...
