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The original New York City punks invented a type of troubled coolness that has inspired every generation of weirdos since, to the point where their iconic image often precedes their music. Haynes has an impressive track record of making provocative films that cut through the mystique of musical icons. The Velvet Underground is not so blatantly deconstructivist. But for the most part, Haynes is unconcerned with capturing a definitive vision of the Velvet Underground. All members bar Doug Yule were sent back to the United States in and Yule recorded all parts except the drums by Deep Purple's Ian Paice, saxophone by someone called Malcolm and some unidentified female backing vocals.

Recording the album as essentially a Doug Yule solo effort was at the instruction of manager Steve Seswick, who had earlier brought Yule to the band and had long pushed for the Velvets to adopt a more commercial style with Yule at its centre.

Yule himself was displeased at Seswick's control of the process. While Yule had been a significant creative force, albeit secondary to Lou Reed, on the celebrated Loaded album, Squeeze is much-maligned. It received terrible reviews, though it has gained some appreciators over the years. It is typically considered a Velvets record in name only. At around the same time as the official Velvet Underground were being reduced to Seswick's Doug Yule project, Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico had also been in Europe for a reunion performance in Paris in , which was bootlegged and eventually released under the name Le Bataclan ' Footage from this reunion performance is included in this film.

User reviews 28 Review. Top review. A lot of great archive footage and an enjoyable, well balanced film. Very much enjoyed this, as a fan of the bands music, I'm not sure I learned much that I didn't know before but I loved seeing a lot of this archive footage and photographs, which I don't think have been seen before publicly. Its very much a celebration of the bands music and legacy and a few of the interviews made me laugh and the closing montage may have made me cry a little.

What more can you ask from a film? I did find the Warhol style a little jarring at the beginning, with some of the flashing imagery, but it did calm down and seems fully appropriate to the subject and so much better than it being a dull series of interviews with talking heads And while there were interviews with the remaining members of band and the scene they were all completely relevant, thankfully we didn't get a series of other fans or celebrities talking about the band and themselves.

The film also did really well including those members who are no longer with us and it really felt that the whole band was featured and represented here. It is not an encyclopedic history of the band which some people perhaps wanted, I guess you'd need a six or eight hour miniseries to cover that, or you could just read one of the many books and biographys that exist.

We'll explore the storied career of The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed, one year on from the legendary musician's passing. Join Francis Leach from 8pm on Thursday 23 October for a celebration of one of the key bands in rock'n'roll history. Richard Witts is a British musicologist, musician and writer, whose third book, The Velvet Underground , is a study of the music and the story behind the iconic band.

They wanted to be a pop group. It also explains why those albums didn't sell very well at the time. They failed to hit either market. VU don't need it, they've got Andy Warhol'. Woodstock, we were happy they ended up in the mud, serves them right. Despite being at odds with musical trends of the time, the band were determined. They weren't going to compromise their artistic vision. So it was fortuitous that Andy Warhol would champion the band from an early stage. We were gonna do this," Cale said.

They were misfits, very creative misfits, and they had somewhere to work. And there was a lot of work going on there. Their musical ideals were conflicting and the circumstances from which the two major creative players, Reed and Cale, had come were so very different. Sweet Nuthin' one of my fav's. The idea of a viola playing a part in rock music was so bizarre. He was into the avant garde scene and went to New York and worked with a leading avant garde composer and great influence on the Velvet Underground, La Monte Young.

You have these two worlds kind of clashing and these two personalities who also clashed personally. You could say that Lou Reed wanted to be famous and John Cale wanted to be infamous.

Now you add in Nico and that really is a strange mix and then you add in Andy Warhol on top of that as their so-called manager and producer and it really is, for us, absolutely exciting but completely unique.

There's nothing comparable to that. The first recorded version of the song comes from a session in the band's Ludlow Street Loft in July , which features Cale singing lead vocals. Video: YouTube. The song was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's book of the same name and was written, and named, before the band adopted the name The Velvet Underground from a book by Michael Leigh.

Lou Reed wrote it but gave it to John Cale to sing on the Ludlow Tapes and it has this beautiful folksy sound to it. It's really like a parody of a medieval folk song or something. That's kind of what makes it such an imposing sound, this little faux medieval ditty, surrounded by this epic sonority that's grandiose and sort of full-measured. It was one of the first Velvet Underground songs and remains one of the songs that best illustrates the band. We'll notify you here with news about.

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