The Velvet Underground What Goes On Sean Albiez David Pattie by Sean Albiez, David Pattie, Glyn Davis, Mark Goodall, Peter Griffiths, Mimi Haddon, Johnny Hopkins, Martin James, Timor Kaul, Elizabeth Ann Lindau, Toby Manning, Julijana Papazovan Thom Robinson, Jeffrey Roessner, Cibran Tenreizo Uzal 9781501338410, 1501338412 instant download after payment.

Though The Velvet Underground were critically & commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop $ alternative rock. In the 1970s & 80s Lou Reed, John Cale, & Nico produced a number of works that traveled a path between art and pop. In 1993 the original band members of Reed, Cale, Morrison, & Tucker briefly reunited for live appearances, & afterwards Reed, Cale & briefly Tucker, continued to produce music that travelled the idiosyncratic path begun in New York in the mid-1960s.

The influence of the band & band members, mediated & promoted through famous fans such as David Bowie & Brian Eno, seems only to have expanded since the late 1960s. In 1996 the Velvet Underground were in inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, demonstrating how far the band had traveled in 30 years from an avant-garde cult to the mainstream recognition of their key contributions to popular music. In these collected essays, Pattie & Albiez present the first academic book-length collection on The Velvet Underground. The book covers a range of topics including the band's relationship to US literature, to youth $ cultural movements of the 1960s & beyond & to European culture - and examines these contexts from the 1960s through to the present day.