"The Gift" is the second track that appears on White Light/White Heat, the 1968 second album by the Velvet Underground. The song is over eight minutes...
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The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. It originally comprised singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist...
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Peel Slowly and See (redirect from Velvet Underground/Peel Slowly and See)
set of material by the Velvet Underground. It was released in September 1995 by Polydor. The name of this box set comes from the instruction presented...
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White Light/White Heat (category The Velvet Underground albums)
Heat is the second studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Released on January 30, 1968, by Verve Records, it was the band's last...
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The following is a list of all songs by The Velvet Underground, excluding those after the departure of Lou Reed on the Squeeze album and the reunion tour...
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song), 1997 "The Gift" (The McCarters song), 1988 "The Gift" (Seether song), 2006 "The Gift" (The Velvet Underground song), 1968 "The Gift" (Way Out West...
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Sterling Morrison (category The Velvet Underground members)
an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally...
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Live MCMXCIII (category The Velvet Underground live albums)
MCMXCIII ("1993" in Roman numerals) is a live album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in 1993 by Sire Records. It was released simultaneously...
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John Cale (category The Velvet Underground members)
composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various...
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Pale Blue Eyes (category The Velvet Underground songs)
band the Velvet Underground, written and sung by Lou Reed. He recorded a demo with John Cale in May 1965. It was included on the band's 1969 album The Velvet...
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Cale's "Hanky Panky Nohow", The Velvet Underground's "I'm Set Free", Beat Happening's "Cast a Shadow", and Wire's "Too Late". The cover of Daniel Johnston's...
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originally recorded by Reed's band the Velvet Underground in 1969, and eventually released on the 1985 compilation album VU. The 30th-anniversary re-issue of...
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Billy Name (category The Velvet Underground)
photographed the covers for the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat and their eponymous third album as well as the photographs in the gatefold sleeve...
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"Femme Fatale" is a cover of a song from The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, and even it was slowed and changed very...
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Sexy Star (category Lucha Underground Gift of the Gods Champions)
Lucha Underground, where she was a former Lucha Underground Champion and Gift of the Gods Champion. She is the first woman to win the Lucha Underground Championship...
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The Velvet Underground. Indiana University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0253218322. Clinton Heylin, ed. (2005). All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground...
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The Velvet Underground, named a song and live album after the novel. The band Nightmare of You based the song "Thumbelina" on the book. The band The Gaslight...
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suggested to Velvet Underground front-man Lou Reed that he record himself stabbing a cantaloupe with a wrench in the band's song "The Gift". The Mothers of...
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Adam Lambert (redirect from The Very Best of Adam Lambert)
to promote Velvet: Side A. In January 2020, Lambert was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Music Artist category for Velvet: Side A. Lambert...
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story) by Robert A. Heinlein Waldo Jeffers, protagonist of The Velvet Underground song "The Gift" Waldo Jones, disabled inventor in Robert A. Heinlein's...
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Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song) (category The Modern Lovers songs)
2021. It charted at no.11 on the UK chart in 1977. As a teenager Richman saw the Velvet Underground perform many times, and the format of "Roadrunner" is...
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States. This town is mentioned in the song "The Gift" by the Velvet Underground as the home of Waldo Jeffers. The town of Locust, which was in CANOE...
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musical, The Dirty Hippie Jam Band Project . She was also a member of the pizza-themed Velvet Underground parody band The Pizza Underground, featuring...
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producer. He is frontman for Philadelphia rock group Nick Perri & The Underground Thieves, as well as founding member of previous groups Silvertide,...
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experimental and art rock sound of the Velvet Underground as well as late '70s punk and post-punk bands such as the Fall, Buzzcocks, Wire,Television and...
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Ray" (by the Velvet Underground), "Ghostrider" (by Suicide) and "Louie Louie" (by Richard Berry) became a live staple. Only four of them, the Stooges'...
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Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher, Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor...
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Andy Warhol (redirect from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)
managed and produced the experimental rock band the Velvet Underground. He also founded Interview and authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy...
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Reed's second post-Velvet Underground solo album, and as B-side of his major hit, "Walk on the Wild Side". Its fame was given a boost in the 1990s when it...
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Neverwhere (novel) (redirect from How The Marquis Got His Coat Back)
copy of the Black Friars' key from Hammersmith, a blacksmith friend of hers. Richard enlists the mysterious Lamia, one of the vampire-like Velvets, as a...
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