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 ...
“My album cover has not yet appeared at the Guggenheim ... There’s no doubt The Velvet Underground and Nico was a groundbreaking record. Combining the avant garde with pop songwriting, it ...
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 ...