035: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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The VU - A History
The velvet underground formed in 1964 a collaboration between brash new yorker lu read and serious welshman john kale and idios and krattic Kineticution. The band recorded their debut album devellvate underground and nico in 1966 and released it in 1967 It was produced by Andy warhol sort of and Andy convinced the group to allow nico a german model to sing lead vocals on three of the songs Warhol used his celebrity to promote the band and the album He designed the album's famous cover pretty much just a picture of a banana and he nominally produced the sessions As a producer he wasn't hands-on Mostly allowing the band to do their
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