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unusual facts about Velvet Underground



Daniel Darc

1988: Parce que, concept album with Bill Pritchard (with a song written by Charles Aznavour - the title track - and an adaptation of "Stephany Says" - song of Velvet Underground)

Heineken Green Room in Singapore

:Norman Jay MBE, the Godfather of Dance, performed at Velvet Underground in Singapore and produced an exciting array of rare grooves, funk, house and hip hop beats.

Kauko Röyhkä

Röyhkä has written ten novels or short story collections and some other works including the biography of Finnish porn star Henry Saari and a book about Velvet Underground.

Leather Nun

Inspired by such groups and artists like John Lee Hooker, The Mothers of Invention, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Rory Gallagher and Mick Ronson, The Leather Nun released their debut EP, Slow Death, in November 1979, featuring a recording of "Death Threats" from 1978 and three newly recorded tracks.

Loureedia

Being a velvet spider that lives underground, the genus was named after musician Lou Reed, lead singer of the group Velvet Underground.

O Baby

The extra tracks were live acoustic versions of "Swimming Horses" and "All Tomorrow's Parties" (initially composed by the Velvet Underground), both recorded in December 1991 for radio station KROQ.

Perrosky

They have since released several EP and LPs Including a disc of covers "Doblando al Español" that includes covers of Eddie Cochrane, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Atahualpa Yupanqui and the Chileans Hielo Negro and Leo Quinteros(see discography).

Queen Jane Approximately

In the song "The Famous Jane" by Texas supergroup Arc Angels, the closing lines refer to several songs with the name "Jane" in the title, including Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", Dylan's "Queen Jane Approximately", and The Rolling Stones' "Lady Jane".

Ronnie Cutrone

During that time, as Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and concepts, he hit upon the style the critics called "Post-Pop." And, along with Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga, danced onstage with the Velvet Underground and Nico as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable show.

Sov gott Rose-Marie

Pärson Sound's drone-based experimental rock sound, inspired by The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley and the Rolling Stones, was filtered through a more folky, nationalist inspired sound, in hopes to "create a more temporary kind of rhythmic music that could play the same role as traditional folk music."

Sugarplum Fairies

The Sugarplum Fairies draw influence from French cultural icons such as Françoise Hardy, Anna Karina, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as the Velvet Underground, John Lennon, and Lee Hazlewood.

Sun Blindness Music

He was not alone in this though - frequent collaborators La Monte Young, Terry Riley, original Velvet Underground drummer Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela also contributed to the genre.

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who would later become famous for producing albums by the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan.


see also

A Night with Lou Reed

The video replaces them with "Don't Talk to Me about Work", "Women", "Turn Out the Light" and "New Age" from Legendary Hearts, The Blue Mask and The Velvet Underground's Loaded, respectively.

Another View

When the Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969.

Bataclan

Le Bataclan '72, the live album by members of The Velvet Underground

Satanicpornocultshop

2003 - Cover of The Velvet Underground's‘Candy Says’appeared on the UK Wire magazine compilation The Wire Tapper 10

The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed

The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground.

:There are Velvet Underground compilation albums with similar titles: The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection (2000) and The Very Best of The Velvet Underground (2003).

The Blue Mask

It also follows the Velvet Underground stylistically by counterpointing and transposing jarring feedback-driven rock with tough and tender ballads, melodic distortion of a magnitude not heard since the "Sister Ray" days.

The Pizza Underground

The group released its first music video in January 2014, parodying various Velvet Underground songs such as "All Pizza Parties" ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), "Pizza Gal" ("Femme Fatale"), and "Take a Bite of the Wild Slice" (Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").

The Very Best of The Velvet Underground

The Very Best of The Velvet Underground was released on the back of a successful Hyundai television advert, which featured the band's 1970 recording "I'm Sticking with You" off Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition).