A lion’s share of those covers were of songs from their historic debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). Four songs from ...

Led by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, the reunion marks the end of the siblings’ long-held feud, one that led to Oasis ...

Coming from the wild and loud New York City of the mid-1960s, The Velvet Underground cut its own path, different from any other band at that time. They mixed harsh words with hard, bold sounds.

She said onstage: "In March 1967, the Velvet Underground released their album The Velvet Underground And Nico. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at #199.

Charli XCX has hailed The Velvet Underground's landmark 1967 album 'The Velvet Underground And Nico' as "the apex of fine art and DIY culture colliding". Over the weekend, the 'Apple' hitmaker ...

Charli XCX has hailed The Velvet Underground's landmark 1967 album 'The Velvet Underground And Nico' as "the apex of fine art and DIY culture colliding". Over the weekend, the 'Apple' hitmaker – whose ...

Charli XCX has declared her love for the 1967 album ‘ The Velvet Underground & Nico ’, calling it “the apex of fine art”. She namechecked the debut album by the influential New York City ...

Nico left the band after the release of The Velvet Underground and Nico, and John Cale would remain in the fold for their follow-up album, White Light/White Heat.

IN PETER DOGGETT’s exemplary linernotes to these reissues, he quotes an interview Nico gave shortly before her death in 1988, aged 49, where she explains her desire to make “archaic music… music you ...

Left to right: Director Paul Morrissey, Nico, Andy Warhol, and poet Gerard Malanga attend a ‘Freakout’ party featuring a Velvet Underground and Nico performance in Long Island, New York, 1966.

Only 10,000 people bought the first Velvet Underground record, the old quote commonly attributed to Brian Eno goes, but everyone who bought those 10,000 copies started a band.