Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story

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The best-selling definitive history of The Velvet Underground. Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest rock books ever published, it first appeared in 1983 and has remained in print in several languages ever since.
Written and compiled by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga, Up-Tight is based on interviews with all four members of the Velvets, as well as others who became part of Andy Warhol’s circle of artistic collaborators.

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Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
Tony Conrad, who had by now become a film-maker, did a thing called Flicker.
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Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
There are unfortunately no Velvet Underground videos although there are four films (apart from Warhol’s) that are known to exist, though shown rarely, if at all:
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Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
Some of the music we really like is records by The El Doradoes or The Harpchords, all the really very nice old, old records. The El Chords, The Starlighters, ‘Valerie’, Alicia and The Rockaways, Buster Brown, Bo Diddley.
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