Kenny Wilson Blog Archive

Category: The Velvet Underground

  • New York Poets Theatre

    Interesting piece of history about the amazing St. Mark’s Place. One of my favourite streets anywhere in the World! A bit further down, at this time, was Andy Warhol’s club “The Electric Circus”.

  • New York Poets Theatre

    Interesting piece of history about the amazing St. Mark’s Place. One of my favourite streets anywhere in the World! A bit further down, at this time, was Andy Warhol’s club “The Electric Circus”.

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967| PopMatters|Peter Hogan

    In meeting Andy Warhol, the Velvets acquired what few fledgling bands have been lucky enough to achieve: a wealthy patron. In addition, Warhol’s Factory, populated by an enormous range of people of varying talents, provided a fertile cross-pollination of ideas and personalities, whilst also constituting a powerful PR machine. Enter Nico For John Cale, Andy…

  • The lasting influence of The Velvet Underground and Nico | Riley Fitzgerald

    The Velvet Underground and Nico embodies a seldom realised idea: that music really can change the world. A financial failure in its time, the loose collection of these New York artists’ self-titled debut took a decade to sell 100,000 copies. However, despite its commercial failings, The Velvets’ humble flop was a primitively bright conceptual spark. While simultaneously hitting the…

  • Overloaded: The Story Of White Light/White Heat | MOJO

    BY DAVID FRICKE (Mojo Magazine) “NO ONE LISTENED TO IT. BUT THERE IT IS, FOREVER – THE QUINTESSENCE OF ARTICULATED PUNK. AND NO ONE GOES NEAR IT.”– Lou Reed, August, 2013 BY MID-1967, ONLY a few months after The Velvet Underground’s debut album was released, their iconic ice queen singer Nico was a solo artist, and…

  • Velvet Underground & Nico: John Cale’s Track Commentary

    John Cale offers his memories of recording each song on the iconic Velvet Underground debut Source: Velvet Underground & Nico: John Cale’s Track Commentary Everyone’s heard the famous maxim, generally accredited to legendary music producer Brian Eno: while the Velvet Underground’s debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, sold a paltry 30,000 copies upon release in…

  • John Cale on the ‘Chaos’ of Velvet Underground – Rolling Stone

    John Cale reflects on the 50th anniversary of ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’ and the chaos that surrounded it. Source: John Cale on the ‘Chaos’ of Velvet Underground – Rolling Stone   By Kory Grow March 10, 2017 The way John Cale tells it, he had a revelation one day in the mid-Sixties. He’d dedicated…

  • John Cale on the ‘Chaos’ of Velvet Underground – Rolling Stone

    John Cale reflects on the 50th anniversary of ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’ and the chaos that surrounded it. Source: John Cale on the ‘Chaos’ of Velvet Underground – Rolling Stone   By Kory Grow March 10, 2017 The way John Cale tells it, he had a revelation one day in the mid-Sixties. He’d dedicated…

  • ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know – Rolling Stone

    Source: ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know – Rolling Stone Actually, I did know most of this, but not Warhol’s idea of putting a crack on the record to make the phrase ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’ repeat over and over again. Inspirational, and an idea later used by the Beatles at the…

  • Adam Ritchie: Photographer

    I came across Adam Ritchie when I was researching into the Velvet Underground. Most of the early pictures of the band were taken by him and Lisa Law. It seems strange that there are not more pictures of the band from this time when you consider the number of photos taken at Andy Warhol’s Factory by Billy…