“One night we played ‘The Black Angel’s Death Song’ and the owner came up and said, ‘If you play that song one more time you’re fired!’ So we started the next set with it” – Sterling Morrison, Guitarist, The Velvet UndergroundRead more
American rock band The Velvet Underground got their name from Michael Leigh’s 1963 book of the same name that explored a secretive sexual masochist subculture.Read more
The Velvet Underground’s song “There She Goes Again” borrows its distinctive guitar riff from Marvin Gaye’s song ‘Hitch Hike’.Read more
The Velvet Underground sold just 30,000 albums in its first five years, but “everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band”, quipped composer Brian EnoRead more
Andy Warhol once managed The Velvet Underground, who nicknamed the artist ‘Drella’ — a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella.Read more
In 1965, The Grateful Dead and The Velvet Underground, unbeknownst to each other, were both performing as ‘The Warlocks’ on opposite ends of the country — before both having to change their names when discovering a different band called The Warlocks already released an album.Read more
