num_pages: 312
description: Sporting shades and a feedback-heavy sounds, 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 Rough Guide to The Velvet Underground The Velvet How Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale and the others emerged from the New York scene, their successes and excesses and what happened to each in their solo years. Velvet From their 1967 debut with Nico to their 1993 reunion with all the tales behind the tunes. Velvet Everybody who was anybody in the Velvet’s world, taking in Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, David Bowie, Delmore, Schwaretsz and Brian Eno. Velvet The “Underground” on screen, the Velvets’ New York, clubs, influences, covers, websites and more.
language: English
title: The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground
titlecomplete: The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground (Rough Guide Reference)
genres: Nonfiction, Music
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Rough Guides