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The Velvet Underground is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band the Velvet Underground. [ 3 ] The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 7, 2021.
The ballroom hosted numerous bands in its history, including Rudy Valee, Les Brown, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Sammy Kaye, Tommy Dorsey, and The Velvet Underground, as well as prominent local musicians like Earl Hood, Chuck Selby, and Ronald Koal. The Peppe family has owned and operated ...
Left to right: Director Paul Morrissey, Nico, Andy Warhol, and poet Gerard Malanga attend a ‘Freakout’ party featuring a Velvet Underground and Nico performance in Long Island, New York, 1966.
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. It originally comprised singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Angus MacLise. In 1965, MacLise was replaced by Moe Tucker, who played on most of the band's recordings.
Unlike me, she wasn't a fan of their early work. Except for songs of their debut featuring Nico, "because she's a girl."
The film depicts the first band practice of The Velvet Underground and Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation. Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison play their electric guitars (Gretsch Country Gentleman and Vox Phantom respectively), Maureen Tucker plays her 3-piece drum kit consisting of a rack tom, snare drum, bass drum and single cymbal, John Cale plays his electric viola and Nico ...
The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space. Veteran journalist and ...
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia gesamtkunstwerk events organized by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by the Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, such as Eat, and dancing and mime performance art by ...