The Velvet Underground sounded like nothing else that came out in 1967.. It was one of rock 'n' roll's all-time greatest and most influential years – there were landmark projects released by the ...

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, ultimately peaking at No. 171.

The Velvet Underground And Nico, 1967 In Jay Reege's collection, there are some rare 45s by future Velvets. The oldest is by Louis Reed of Freeport, Long Island.

Sometimes history-changing moments are so simple they're barely even a story, like the formation of The Velvet Underground, happening through out of chance ...

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

The post A Definitive Ranking of Every The Velvet Underground Album appeared first on Consequence.. Welcome back to another edition Dissected, where we take a holistic look at a band’s ...

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.

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 ...

The Velvet Underground was going nowhere ... and the same with Nico. I mean Nico was very sweet, very light, very nice, but there were no deep dark problems to share, because I was just spinning ...

At 80, the musician who helped found the Velvet Underground before a prolific run as a producer and solo artist is releasing a new LP and mentoring new generations of avant-garde creators.

In the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground, veteran culture journalist Dylan Jones gives us swirls of vivid eyewitness reports, provocative opinions and ...