The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground
By Peter Hogan
2007
First Published
3.70
Average Rating
312
Number of Pages
Sporting shades and a feedback-heavy sounds, the Velvets straddled art and rock, changing popular music forever, and sowing the seeds for punk, grunge and thousands of countercultural four-chord wonders. The Rough Guide to The Velvet Underground The Velvet How Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale and the others emerged from the New York scene, their successes and excesses and what happened to each in their solo years. Velvet From their 1967 debut with Nico to their 1993 reunion with all the tales behind the tunes. Velvet Everybody who was anybody in the Velvet’s world, taking in Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, David Bowie, Delmore, Schwaretsz and Brian Eno. Velvet The “Underground” on screen, the Velvets’ New York, clubs, influences, covers, websites and more.
Avg Rating
3.70
Number of Ratings
60
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Author
Peter Hogan
Author · 15 books
Peter Kenneth Hogan is an English writer and comics creator who started out as editor of cult political British comic Revolver in 1990–1991, before working for 2000 AD and American comic book publishers Vertigo and America's Best Comics.
