Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
00:00
The Last Song Reed Would Sing in Public
Pale Blue Eyes is actually a song that read the demoed in 1965, and it's quite astonishing that what became one of the group's most loved and most covered songs have been left off their first two albums. Jesus shows that Kale wasn't the only one in the band, to be influenced by the effortly for this harmony is. That would actually be the last song Reed would sing in public, in a performance in 2013 when he knew he was dying. The singer Anoni came out publicly as trans herself shot the afterwards.
Transcript
Play full episode
