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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Velvet Underground, VU and Nico.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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The Velvet Underground and the Stooges probably show up a lot more in the music.
Alex has 10 nice (and not so nice) things to say about The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Therefore it is important to look at the culture that shaped The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed briefly before we examine their ideologies.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Exactly 30 years after they recorded The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground was inducted in 1996 into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
For "The Velvet Underground," this meant releasing the "closet" mixes where Reed 'monkied' with the 'final' tapes to bring his vocals to the forefront - burying some of the guitars.
That was the magic formula for The Velvet Underground and Nico , on of the most important albums in the rock history, signed by the famous Warhol’s banana on the cover.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Strikingly similar to the Velvet Underground's "The Murder Mystery" which is unsurprising given Bowie worshipped the ground they walked on.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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I was thirteen the first time I heard The Velvet Underground & Nico and it gave me a headache.
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