Velvet Underground Reunion

No matter what your underground scene is, the Velvet Underground is probably on your list of best bands of all time. I mean, underground is part of their name for god’s sake. Anyway, the New York based band has announced a reunion show at none other than the New York City Public Library. The event will take place on December 8.

Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule make up the surviving members of the original strange as hell New York pre-punk rockers. The three will discuss the Velvet Underground’s music and legacy with rock journalist David Fricke as part of the “LIVE from the NYPL” series.

The reunion comes on the heels of the publication of “The Velvet Underground: New York Art,” a collection of previously unseen photographs, poster and cover designs by Andy Warhol, Lou Reed’s handwritten music and lyrics, underground press clippings and other reviews, fliers, handbills and posters.

Tickets for the event are a reasonable $25 or $15 for library donors, students, and seniors through the NYPL website. The original Velvet Underground lineup consisted of Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Nico. Their first self titled record which had the famous banana drawing by Andy Warhol included some staple tracks in rock history including “Heroin” and “Sunday Morning”.

Cale left the band in 1968 and was replaced by Yule. The group split in the early 1970s, though it re-formed briefly with Cale and toured in the early 1990s. Nico died in 1988, and Sterling Morrison in 1995.

Lou Reed, Douge Yule, Mo Tucker photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

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