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January 3, 1966 (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe edition) Was planned for release on the deluxe 2-disc CD edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico but was pulled at the last minute. [3] [4] Eventually released on the 45th Anniversary edition. "The Murder Mystery" Studio recordings: The Velvet Underground
An acetate-sourced alternative mix of this album's version of "Ride into the Sun", featuring vocals by Lou Reed, has appeared on bootlegs and on the Australian box set What Goes On. As the Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on Another View , "Ride into the Sun" and "Rock and Roll", for possible ...
Nico was forced out of the group, and began a career as a solo artist. Her debut solo album, Chelsea Girl, was released in October 1967, featuring some songs written by Velvet Underground members. [91] Tom Wilson continued working with the Velvet Underground, producing their 1968 album White Light/White Heat [92] and Nico's Chelsea Girl. [93]
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.
Nico was born Christa Päffgen in Cologne to Wilhelm and Margarete "Grete" Päffgen (née Schulz, 1910–1970). [3] Wilhelm was born into the wealthy Päffgen Kölsch master brewer family dynasty in Cologne and was Catholic, while Grete came from a lower-class background and was Protestant. [5]
At Warhol's insistence, Nico sang with the band on three songs of their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The album was recorded primarily in Scepter Studios in New York City during April 1966, but for reasons unclear, some songs were rerecorded at TTG Studios in Los Angeles , along with the new song " Sunday Morning ", later in the ...
The name of this box set comes from the instruction presented on vinyl copies of the band's debut album to peel back the banana sticker featured on the cover. The set includes all four studio albums by the Lou Reed-era line-ups of the Velvet Underground, alongside demo recordings and live performances, some of which had been previously bootlegged, and some of which had never before been released.
Gold also includes two Nico solo tracks, co-written and played by Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, taken from her 1967 debut album for Polydor, Chelsea Girl. Two songs from the VU outtake compilation—"Temptation Inside Your Heart" and " Stephanie Says "—are included in their previously unavailable ...