From left: Nico, Andy Warhol, and Moe Tucker, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale of The Velvet Underground in 1966. In April 1966, the four members of an unknown rock band called The Velvet ...

Watch Iggy Pop Cover Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side' For The First Time In the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground, veteran culture journalist Dylan Jones ...

PITTSBURGH — In 1967, the Monkees held down the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart for 29 weeks with four different albums, the Beatles were at No. 1 for 15 weeks with their blockbuster “Sgt.

“More than eighty reels of film made up Warhol’s 1967 epic double-screen, twenty-five-hour film **** (FOUR STARS). Reel 20 – “Nico Music” – features the Velvet Underground’s chanteuse Nico improvising ...

In his defense, the band had been splitting apart piece by piece for several years at that point. Producer/manager Andy Warhol was fired by Reed after just one album together, their 1967 debut The ...

PITTSBURGH — Just as Andy Warhol was a major influence on pop art, the band most associated with Warhol shaped generations of indie and alternative music. To paraphrase an often-repeated quote ...

The wedding was legitimate, with a marriage license and judge. The ceremony was bonkers, staged in the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit, witnessed by 4,500 people and planned by Andy Warhol. Yes, that ...

In the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground, veteran culture journalist Dylan Jones gives us swirls of vivid eyewitness reports, provocative opinions and ...