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The Velvet Underground was republished in 1967 in the United Kingdom under the title Bizarre Sex Underground. In 1968, Harry Roskolenko (1907-1980) brought out a sequel, The Velvet Underground Revisited, though it was attributed to Michael Leigh again (Michael Leigh had died in 1965). [1]
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.
Transformer was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, both of whom had been strongly influenced by Reed's work with the Velvet Underground.Bowie had obliquely referenced the Velvet Underground in the cover notes for his album Hunky Dory and regularly performed both "White Light/White Heat" and "I'm Waiting for the Man" in concerts and on the BBC during 1971–1973.
In 2009 Ozit-Morpheus Records re-released this compilation under the title Unpiecing the Jigsaw: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground which appended two live tracks by Nico ("Femme Fatale" and "All Tomorrow's Parties") to the third disc, and, on a fourth disc, a lengthy interview called 47 Minutes in Depth With Lou Reed. [1] [2]
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.
After the Velvet Underground disbanded in the early 1970s, she took a hiatus to focus on her marriage and family. She returned in the 1980s, and, until the late 2000s, released four studio albums and performed as a session musician. In 1996, Tucker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground.
The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records (Reed described his tenure there as being "a poor man's Carole King"). [10]
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