Not only for the Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones, but also for Aretha Franklin and Loredana Bertè: what's behind ...

Their debut album, 1967’s ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ includes songs about drug addicts, transvestites and hookers; its 1968 follow-up, ‘White Light / White Heat,’ is even darker.

No one thought The Velvet Underground and Nico—with its songs about S&M and ... printing the peelable vinyl banana sheeting for the album cover, but actor Eric Emerson sued (or threatened ...

Album covers can be a powerful form of storytelling ... two sides of Bowie – the performer and the real person. The Velvet Underground’s debut album is regarded as a pivotal moment in rock ...

Around the same time, I started spinning my father’s copy of “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” a 1967 recording with the iconic banana cover designed ... first Velvets album, but all 30,000 ...