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With exclusive new interviews from the band, this is a captivating account of one of the most influential groups in rock history. Brian Eno famously said the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. Perhaps no other musicians can claim such limited chart success and so enduring a musical legacy as The Velvet Underground. Artists including David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Nirvana, U2, R.E.M., and even dissident Czech playwright and eventual president Vclav Havel have cited the Velvets as a major influence. Seeing the Light presents the untold story of the band. Formed by the mercurial Lou Reed and classically trained Welshman John Cale in the mid-1960s, the band first gained notoriety after being adopted by Andy Warhol. Warhols patronage allowed the group to chart unexplored regions of rock n roll, producing unforgettable and unsettling music that veered from droning, avant-garde experimentalism to folk-infused pop, offering taboo-busting tales of drug addiction, prostitution, and sexual deviance. Creative tensions and frustrated ambition eventually saw both Cale and Reed leave the band, to its ignomini

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Author

Jovanovic, Rob

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250000149

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.05 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14