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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: The Velvet Underground and Nico
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 16:10:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 16:10:57 1985
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> 
> REPLACE THIS LINE WITH A BANANA
> 
> In response to the query about NICO,
> 
>      There is at least one other album on which she appears.  She sings on
> about half the songs on the first VELVET UNDERGROUND album.  The album title
> is (I think) "The Velvet Underground and Nico", and the cover is white with
> a nice bannana done by Andy Warhol.  I believe that Andy actually founded the
> group, in any event the album is from some stage "experience" he created.
> The band's name comes from the bar where they originally played. Lou Reed
> was a member, as was John Cale.  Nico did not sing on any of the band's 
> later albums (there are three more).
> 
> 
>                                     A. Silberman
>                                     silber%uiuc@csnet-relay
>                                     silber@a.cs.uiuc.edu  
   Warhol didn't found the group, but he did "discover" them and assist them in
getting recorded.  The name of the band comes from the title of a book about
sado-masochism.  There are actually more than three VU albums, if you count 
live albums and the recently released "VU"--made from discovered tapes for 
what the band's fans called "The Great Lost Velvet Underground Album."  All
information is from the liner notes on VU--which is an excellent album, by
the way.

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