The Velvet Underground & Nico contained songs about buying drugs ... It managed to reach No. 171 on the charts, after a series of ups and downs for nine months, but its legacy wouldn't be ...

In many ways, The Velvet Underground and Nico was the first rock album that ... I can take care of that, no problem. I’ll do it in exchange for a picture,'” he said in Sound on Sound.

There is no argument against 1967 as an epochal ... That album was The Velvet Underground and Nico, a uniquely groundbreaking release from a band of artsy New York misfits and marketed by the ...

And there was no booing as I recall ... Brian Eno once said that while not a lot of people bought "The Velvet Underground and Nico" when it came out, everyone who did started a band.

Paul McCartney's songwriting was insulted directly to his face by Nico of The Velvet Underground at a party in 1968. What was ...

So I guess that means that I'm halfway there." While Charli XCX is correct that The Velvet Underground & Nico peaked at No. 195 upon its initial release, it re-entered the charts later in 1967 ...

That’s the Story of My Life: For the punks, no-wavers, noise-heads ... If any song on a record as heralded as The Velvet Underground & Nico could be underrated, it’d be the wonderfully ...

In the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground ... as well as their patron Andy Warhol and Nico, the singer he imposed on them — that rose through the ...

No one thought The Velvet Underground and Nico—with its songs about S&M and narcotics and its distortion-heavy production—would make the pop charts alongside more mainstream bands like the ...

John Cale and Nico performed and Lou Reed visited. The Velvet Underground’s New York tour offers a rare insight into the fertile downtown avant-garde music scene of the early to mid-60s.