Magazine Articles

4-page article, with 2 black and white photographs by Ken Greenberg. See Crawdaddy website to get a fascimile of this issue.

1½-page article illustrated with a White Light/White Heat promo session photo.

Reproduced in Velvet Underground Scrapbook Volume 1.

Velvet Underground history and long interview with Sterling, conducted late 1969. Photos by Ronn Campisi, Roswell Angier and Ken Greenberg.

Story of the Velvet Underground line-up from 1965 to 1972, including interesting live reviews. Reprinted in Velvet Underground Scrapbook - Volume 1.

Cover. 10-page complete discography and price guide, with black and white photographs.

2-page article/interview with Sterling Morrison focusing on guitar/amp stuff. One color snapshot from Velvet Redux video.

"Are Sterling Morrison & Company Still Too Radical?"

Velvet Underground cover, 4-page article (interview with Moe, story, and "report from European front"). Came with a free flexidisc with Moe's Teenager In Love.

3-page article reviewing an EPI performance at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Fully illustrated with 10 photos by Ian MacEachern. The text was reprinted in Up-tight - The Velvet Underground Story (see p. 65).

"Arts/canada attends McMaster University's multiscreen audio-visual psychedelic evening."

Brief history with reviews of the first three albums. Reprinted in Velvet Underground Scrapbook Volume 1.

3-page article with 3 photos (including a ½-page one by Ronn Campisi). "Until their return in July of this year when they played a 14 night gig at Max's Kansas City Restaurant, they hadn't worked in New York for three years. If you asked, they told you it was because there were no clubs left to play there, or that they just couldn't stand Bill Graham, or any number of other Official Reasons. But it's more than that, you know, much more. There was a scene there once, a collection of people, places and things... a meeting in time and space that happened at a single point and will probably never occur in that way again."

2-page review of the first show at Max's Kansas City in June 1970.

Interview with Sterling Morrison (same as Fusion interview, but not credited as such). Reprinted in Velvet Underground Scrapbook Volume 1.

½-page article including a brief Max's review (Some Kinda Love, Sister Ray). Small insert on cover. One B&W photo.

Front cover reads "Velvet Underground The Janitors of Lunacy - on the college circuit". 3-page feature on the upcoming "Velveteen" UK tour. There is also a short tour date listing some of the upcoming London shows.

Article focuses on an interview with Doug Yule after a performance at Kingston Poly. One rare photo of Morrison-Powers-Tucker-Yule line-up.

"Tony Stewart reports on the 'mysterious' Velvet Underground - a super-hip cult based on four reluctant 'intellectuals'".

Full-page history - part of the Rock giants from A-Z series - backed with a full-page B&W photo collage. Same issue has a full-page ad for Lou Reed's Rock 'n' Roll Animal album with UK tour dates, a review of Lou Reed's appearance at Charlton Festival with a B&W photo, and an ad for Tony Conrad's Outside The Dream Syndicate.

"'You put your head on the floor and have somebody step on it.' Not so much a bizarre variant on sado-masochism as a piece of stoned-out gibberish. But nonetheless, Lou Reed and John Cale mimed to 'The Ostrich' on the Dick Clarck show, got featured by Vogue as the perpetrators of a new dance craze, and somehow wound up with a rock and roll band named the Velvet Underground."

Full-page Velvet Underground cover: "The Velvets - A punk legend unpeeled". 4-page history by Giovanni Dadomo. Two other separate episodes about Lou Reed and solo.

4-page article based on an interview with Sterling Morrison, with 8 B&W photographs - some rarely seen. Small insert on cover.

"The Velvet Underground were the first avant-garde rock band, and the greatest."

5-page VU history.

4-page article with discography.

"Cult American band of the late sixties, masterminded by Lou Reed and John Cale, who still exert a massive influence on rock musicians all over the world."

Full-page review of 5-LP box set with UK discography and 2 photos.

3-page fully detailed review of the Velvet Underground CD catalog, with 2 photos by Gerard Malanga and Nat Finkelstein.

"Clinton Heylin reviews the back catalogue."

Story of the 1990 Fondation Cartier reunion.

Story of the 1990 Fondation Cartier reunion.

1990 Fondation Cartier reunion feature.

3-page article, first part of an edited English version of the epic interview originally published in French magazine Les Inrockuptibles no.24. Includes many photos.

2½-page article, second part of the article above. More photos.

3-page article based on a interview with John Cale for the 1993 Velvet Underground reunion tour and a reprint of a 1978 interview with Lou Reed. Same issue has also a news item about a forthcoming CD box set.

"The Velvet Underground are arguably the most brillant and innovative rock band ever. they are certainly the most imitated and influential. As former Pixie Black Francis once famously told MM, they might not have sold many records during their brief career, but everyone who heard them was inspired to form a band. the Velvets were the darlings of Sixties New York and the Warhol set, and in changing the face of music as we knew it, they self-destructed in an orgy of drugs, paranoia and internal conflict after only four classic albums. Against the odds, the VU have reformed for a series of concerts this summer. On the eve of their first full shows together in nearly 30 years, Allan Jones talks to founder member John Cale in Paris and overleaf, recalls a classic encounter with Lou Reed."

"Now we've got a chance to really do it. Not a lot of bands get a second chance, so it's up to us to do it right this time. We've got another crack at it, which is amazing" - John Cale

Full Velvet Underground cover. 5-page article with interview and other stuff. Three 1993 photos by Steve Double including a full-page colored one.

"They dripped dark and sinister cool while those around them dripped flowers from their hair. They wore black instead of rainbow-colored silks. They wore sunglasses at night while earth mothers and fathers frolicked with nature in the wilderness. The Velvet Underground were the antithesis of the dippy hippies, and as such reviled in their lifetime. But since then, they have spawned generations of Velvet wannabes, and they've reformed at a time when they are impossibly popular compared to when they first made that strange, harsh, anger-driven music. Keith Cameron scored a rare interview with all four original members in New York and sat in on their rehearsals, while Steven Wells puts the other side of the coin - that the Velvets are single-handedly at fault for 25 years of inaddo indie wank."

Velvet Underground cover. 4-page report/interview, with 3 black and white photographs.

"It was only rock'n'roll before The Velvet Underground brought potent drugs and pervy sex to the party. 25 years after their last live high, they've risen again to join the Info-inferno of U2's Zooropa tour. Gods, or fallen angels? We devote eight pages to evidence old and new."

Velvet Underground special in Record Hunter - addin to Vox magazine. Lou Reed 1966 cover 2½-page history/discography with photographs from Factory era by Stephen Shore.

1½-page UK discography and album reviews.

7-page article with 1993 color photos by Ken Sharp and 1966 B&W photographs by Fred W. Mc Darrah, VU members quotes about 1993 reunion.

Interview with John Cale. John Cale talks about the old times with Bonner, who supplements the article with a history of the band. Also included are various quotes on the VU and its influence by various (alternative) pop persons, and a review of the first two albums by Bonner.

1½-page review of UK Channel 4 TV night devoted to the Velvet Undergound with interview with Lou Reed about the end of the 1993 reunion. 5 photos.

2-page review of Peel Slowly And See box set.

3-page article about Velvet Underground on the web.

Warhol/Cale cover. 5½-page article extracted from John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh For Zen. Large photos by Fred McDarrah.

"1965. John Cale, a Welsh viola player prominent in New York's classical avant-garde scene, befriended a depressed songwriter called Lou Reed. A year later, their group, The Velvet Underground, was to team up with Andy Warhol and change the face of rock 'n' roll."

Part 2 of the previous article. 3½-page article extracted from John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh For Zen. 4 photos (live 1966, Songs For Drealla (2), Cartier's reunion)

"The death of their old manager Andy Warhol led John Cale and Lou Reed to collaborate once more, and then to the reunion of The Velvet Underground. In this second extract from his autobiography, Cale describes how the long-standing tensions between Lou Reed and himself finally cause the band to implode for good."

15-page article extracted from John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh For Zen. Photos by Stephen Shore, Fred W. McDarrah, Gerard Malanga, Nat Finkelstein... The Velvet Underground shares the cover with Blondie.

"We did not consider ourselves to be entertainers. We never smiled and would turn our backs on the audience. Our aim was to upset people, make them feel uncomfortable, make them vomit. We hated everybody and everything." Thirty years after Lou Reed threw him out of The Velvet Underground, John Cale's book reveals the shocking truth behind rock's most revered revolutionaries.

Full Velvet Underground color cover. 8-page 1969-73 story based on quotes by Sterling, Doug, Lou, Maureen, Dany Fields, Geoffrey Haslam, Billy Yule, Walter Powers, Ian Paice and Rob Norris. 11 photos - some previously unpublished.

"Once the darlings of New York, they were reduced to playing fleapits and ski-lodges. But the Velvets' failure produced some great songs - and great stories."

4-page history with photos cropped from the back cover of White Light/White Heat. It has also a Nico picture from Marble Index front cover.

"Groupe mythique mais trop mal connu, le Velvet Underground n'a jamais cessé de reflèter, tout au long de sa démarche cahotique et mystérieuse, la perversion et l'amoralité glaciales d'un monde de gloire fabriquées et de vrais drames, le monde de l'underground new-yorkais et de ces créateurs hallucinés. Partagé entre l'ombre la plus noire et la lumière la plus blanche, le Velvet Underground continue de donner à la rock music une dimension étrange."

History with photos of Tucker/Alexander post-Lou VU line-up.

4-page article in connection with the French White Light/White Heat reissue, with 4 photographs including a color picture of the 1972 Reed/Cale/Nico reunion at Bataclan in Paris.

2-page story with chronology and discography. It offers a ½-page Bataclan 1972 photo with Cale, Nico and Reed.

9-page history and interviews (with Diana Clapton, Maureen Tucker, Sterling Morrison's wife, Philip Milstein).

"De son vivant, le Velvet jouait dans l'ombre. Aujourd'hui il joue sur du velours."

Lou Reed/Velvet Underground special with Lou Reed cover and 6-page story and CD discography. The article offers same Bataclan 1972 picture as in Best #176, credited to Jean-Yves Legras. Same issue has also interviews with Lou Reed and Steve Hunter.

5½-page 1965-68 Velvet Underground history with many pictures. The second part of this article is available in Jukebox #55.

2-page review of Fondation Cartier reunion, with color photograph, and French Polydor box set review.

Large 2-page Cartier reunion photograph with brief article.

Velvet Underground cover. Second part of the article published in Jukebox #33. 6-page 1968-1990 history with discography.

Bibliography.

VU insert on cover. 7-page Velvet Underground special including:

• L'underground du Velvet : interview with Gerard Malanga by Eric Dahan.
• Une ultime prière pour Nico : portrait by Ari Boulogne.
• Delmore Schwarz, le mentor de Lou Reed : history by Raphaël Sorin.
• Lou Reed "Vaclav Havel, je vous aime!" : French translation of part of the famous Havel-Reed interview, from Between Thought And Expression.
• Interview with John Cale, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison by Maurice Najman.

Report and interviews during New York rehearsals before 1993 European tour.

1993 parisian concerts announcement.

Cover with photo by Claude Gassian. 1¼-page report and interview in Amsterdam during 1993 reunion tour with one photo by Renaud Monfourny.

"Les vingt ans du Velvet Underground. Loin du dandysme morbide de sa jeunesse, le groupe fétiche des années Warhol reprend du service actif. Concert parisien ce soir, disque-commémo à suivre."

8-page 1993 reunion special with rehearsal report, June 1st Edinburgh show review and interviews with Maureen, Sterling, John and Lou, and 10 color photos by Claude Gassian.

"C'est Lou Reed lui-même qui le dit: le premier amour est le plus intense. Le Velvet Underground étant le premier amour de Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker et Sterling Morrison, ils ont donc décidé de le revivre 25 ans après le split. Il s'en explique ensemble et séparément, avec un enthousiasme équivalent à celui qu'ils mettent à rejouer sur scènes ces chansons mythiques."

"The magnificent looser". 7-page interview with Doug Yule, illustrated with many pictures including a rare full-page color photo by Sanford Shor. Same issue offers a review of the Peel Slowly And See CD box set.

Essay about the Velvets' sense of humour.

2-page review of Loaded - Fully Loaded Edition.

3-page review of Loaded - Fully Loaded Edition.

"Alors que, suite au coffret cinq CD paru en Octobre 1995 chez Polydor, nous pensions tout connaître de la face cachée du Velvet Underground, voici que sort une édition augmentée de Loaded. Avec cet album, à la pochette en forme de bouche de métro de laquelle s'échappe une fumée rouge, parus en 1970, au contenu riche, les amateurs vont en avoir pour leur argent."