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A performance of the song in July 1968 in San Diego at The Hippodrome is mentioned in the article "Dead Lie the Velvets, Underground" by Lester Bangs. The refrain to the song is reportedly: "sweet rock and roll, it'll cleanse your soul". Sterling Morrison also contends that the song was a "preamble" to "Sister Ray". [5] [4] "Wild Child"
In 2014, Universal Music Enterprises held a contest in collaboration with Genero to create an official music video for the song. [6] From 120 submissions, the video by Choking Monkey Productions, directed by Oliver Chen and starring Paloma Lopez, was picked as the winner and subsequently uploaded to the Velvet Underground Vevo YouTube channel.
Though Morrison and Tucker had each worked with Reed and Cale since the Velvet Underground had broken up, Songs for Drella was the first time the pair had worked together in decades, and speculation about a reunion began to form, fueled by the one-off appearance by Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker to play "Heroin" as the encore to a brief Songs ...
Another version of "Heroin" was with Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale at the band's Ludlow Street loft in July 1965. Unlike versions of songs such as "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Venus in Furs" from the same session, which sound drastically different from how they would on The Velvet Underground & Nico, this version of "Heroin" is nearly identical to the album version in structure.
Chelsea Girl is the debut solo album and second studio album by German singer Nico.It was released in October 1967 by Verve Records and was recorded following Nico's collaboration with the Velvet Underground on their 1967 debut studio album.
"I Heard Her Call My Name" is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground. It is the fifth track from the band's second album, White Light/White Heat.It is a particularly loud, brash and aggressive song that features a pair of atonal guitar solos performed by Lou Reed and repeated use of high pitched feedback.
The ostrich guitar or ostrich tuning is a type of trivial tuning.It assigns one note to all strings, e.g. E-E-e-e-e'-e' or D-D-D-D-d'-d'. The term "ostrich guitar" was coined by the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed after the pre-Velvet Underground song "The Ostrich" [1] by Lou Reed and the Primitives, on which he first recorded using this tuning, the first known commercial composition to make use ...
The Complete Matrix Tapes is a live album by the New York City-based experimental rock band the Velvet Underground, released on November 20, 2015.It features unexpurgated recordings of the band's two-night stint on November 26 and 27, 1969, at San Francisco club The Matrix, owned and operated by Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin.