![]() There are excerpts from interviews, including some from group members who are now deceased, and those accompany a lot of historical footage of the group. The film covers the entire eight years of their career. They recorded an album on Verve Records, with Warhol’s painting of a banana on the cover, and then Warhol had them tour with a light show in 1966 and ’67, these shows becoming legendary as the “Exploding Plastic Inevitable.” This was the beginning. Later, when a beautiful singer and model from Germany with the stage name “Nico” showed up at Warhol’s art factory, he persuaded the Velvet Underground to make her a part of the group. Warhol came himself to listen, and put some of his cultural weight in to give them more attention. ![]() ![]() They were playing in a bar when someone who knew Andy Warhol saw them. They added Reed’s college friend Sterling Morrison on guitar, and Maureen Tucker, the sister of another Syracuse friend, on drums, and called themselves The Velvet Underground. Cale’s experimental style mixed well with Reed’s dark songwriting. Then there was John Cale, a young composer and multi-instrumentalist from Wales, who traveled to New York City to be part of the downtown music scene, and met Reed when the latter was working as a songwriter for a recording company. He’d been in a psych hospital at one point, and his songs reflected dark themes of alienation, addiction, and bisexuality. Lou Reed, a Jewish kid from Long Island who played in a doo-wop band in high school, and wrote songs while at college in Syracuse, had started taking drugs in his teens. The story begins with two musical artists toiling in relative obscurity. ![]() The Velvet Underground, a documentary about the group that enjoyed brief but unprofitable fame in the 1960s, has the added advantage of coming from a favorite director, Todd Haynes. I’m always interested when a film about a favorite rock band comes out. Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol. Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack also features tracks by artists who influenced The Velvet Underground including a live version of "Road Runner" by Bo Diddley "The Wind," a doo-wop classic by The Diablos featuring Nolan Strong and the previously unpublished La Monte Young composition, "17 XII 63 NYC The Fire Is A Mirror (excerpt)," performed by The Theatre of Eternal Music.Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:03:29 ![]() The soundtrack features such Velvet Underground favorites as " Sunday Morning," "All Tomorrow's Parties," "Pale Blue Eyes," "I'm Waiting for The Man" and "Sweet Jane," as well as the mono version of "Heroin" and the rare cut "Foggy Notion." Also featured are live versions of "After Hours" and "Sister Ray," Nico's "Chelsea Girls," and the tongue-in-cheek novelty song "The Ostrich" by The Primitives, an early band formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. To pre-order/pre-save Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack go, HERE.įeaturing some of The Velvet Underground's most well-known tracks, rarities and songs that influenced them, The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack serves as the perfect introduction to the band and companion piece to the film. Curated by the documentary's director, Todd Haynes, and music supervisor Randall Poster, the album is the official soundtrack for the critically acclaimed Apple Original documentary, The Velvet Underground, which will be released in theaters and premiere globally Friday, October 15 on Apple TV+. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack, a 2CD and digital soundtrack that features both well-known and rare Velvet Underground tracks, will be released on Octovia Republic Records/UMe. ![]()
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