#The velvet underground vinyl professional

Several others who worked on the album are often mentioned as the technical producer. Īrtist Andy Warhol designed the album's cover and played a major role in its production.Īlthough Andy Warhol is the only formally credited producer, he had little influence beyond paying for the recording sessions. When the record's release date was postponed, Wilson brought the band into Mayfair Recording Studios in Manhattan in November 1966, to add a final song to the album: the single ' Sunday Morning'. With the backing of a label, one month later in May 1966 three of the songs, ' I'm Waiting for the Man', ' Venus in Furs' and ' Heroin', were re-recorded in two days at TTG Studios during a stay in Hollywood. Finally, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings, with the help of Verve staff producer Tom Wilson who had recently moved from a job at Columbia. Soon after, Dolph sent an acetate disc of the recordings to Columbia Records in an attempt to interest them in distributing the album, but they declined, as did Atlantic Records and Elektra Records-according to Morrison, Atlantic objected to the references to drugs in Reed's songs, while Elektra disliked Cale's viola. This was financed by Warhol and Columbia Records' sales executive Norman Dolph, who also acted as an engineer with John Licata. The bulk of the songs that would become The Velvet Underground & Nico were recorded in four days in mid-April 1966 at Scepter Studios, a run-down recording studio in Manhattan. In 1966, as the album was being recorded, this was also the line-up for their live performances as a part of Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable. She sang lead on three of the album's tracks-' Femme Fatale', ' All Tomorrow's Parties' and ' I'll Be Your Mirror'-and back-up on ' Sunday Morning'.

At the instigation of their mentor and manager Andy Warhol, and his collaborator Paul Morrissey, German singer Nico was also featured she had occasionally performed lead vocals for the band.

#The velvet underground vinyl professional

The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded with the first professional line-up of the Velvet Underground: Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker.

Nico sang lead vocals on three tracks, including the single ' All Tomorrow's Parties'. In 2003, it was ranked 13th on Rolling Stone 's list of the ' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time', and in 2006, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. In 1982, English musician Brian Eno quipped that while the album only sold approximately 30,000 copies in its first five years, 'everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band'. Described as 'the original art-rock record', it was a major influence on many subgenres of rock music and alternative music, including punk, garage, krautrock, post-punk, shoegaze, goth, and indie.

The Velvet Underground & Nico initially sold poorly and was mostly ignored by music critics at the time, but later became regarded as one of the most influential albums in rock and pop music. The album features experimental performance sensibilities and controversial lyrical topics, including drug abuse, prostitution, sadomasochism and sexual deviancy. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour.

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records. The early LP edition with the banana-skin sticker peeled off