The Untold Truth Of The Velvet Underground

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3 жыл бұрын

The Velvet Underground is one of the most influential bands in the history of pop music. And their legacy is especially impressive considering all of their albums were panned by critics and ignored by fans. There's a saying that even though they didn't sell well initially, every person who bought one of their albums ended up forming a band.
That's because the groundbreaking style of Lou Reed, John Cale, Doug Yule, Sterling Morrison, and Moe Tucker has turned out to be timeless. And their collaborations with Nico and Andy Warhol only brought them to new heights of fame, including, eventually, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So how did it happen? Here's the untold truth of the Velvet Underground.
#TheVelvetUnderground #Bands #RockAndRoll
Began in New York City | 0:10
Meeting Andy Warhol | 1:21
Nico joins the band | 2:22
The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3:22
Firing Warhol and Nico | 4:19
John Cale is fired | 5:22
Lou Reed's departure | 6:00
Squeeze was panned and ignored | 6:57
Reunion tour and second break-up | 7:35
Death of former members | 8:17
Legacy of The Velvet Underground | 9:08
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@GrungeHQ 3 жыл бұрын

What's your favorite song from The Velvet Underground?

@williamberry2351 3 жыл бұрын

Sunday Morning or Stephanie Says

@sandygibson1197 3 жыл бұрын

Venus in Furs

@ministerofdarkness 3 жыл бұрын

Herion

@luisferreiro 3 жыл бұрын

All Tomorrow's Parties

@petabulmer7345 3 жыл бұрын

The Gift!

@tgore276 3 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for the 'Untold Truth."

@robertweikel5796 3 жыл бұрын

Lol right

@dougbennett8592 3 жыл бұрын

Twenty dollars in my hand

@gabria8618 3 жыл бұрын

@@dougbennett8592 *twentysix

@Itsyrm8 3 жыл бұрын

The untold truth is the banana. Evil- cursed - manipulative banana

@KCNYC 3 жыл бұрын

@@Itsyrm8 you really have to smoke a banana to truly understand

@klmullins65 3 жыл бұрын

It would've been interesting to mention Reed's rivalry with Frank Zappa, and how they traded barbs and insults in the press, yet Reed later inducted Zappa into the RnR Hall of Fame, speaking of him in the highest regard.

@austintrousdale2397 2 жыл бұрын

Both men were undeniably original, influential artists beyond the number of records that they sold while active in the industry. Frank was the superior musician.

@wwbuirkle Жыл бұрын

@@austintrousdale2397 Reed a superior lyricist

@almishti Жыл бұрын

I read an interview with Lou from the late 60s where he said Zappa was the most pretentious, boring excuse for musician that existed. Hhhaha. Lou had litle good to say about any of his contemporaries except the Beatles who he gushed over like a schoolboy. :)

@klmullins65 Жыл бұрын

@@almishti I heard an interview where Lou was blasting the Ramones, yet on the Danny Fields documentary, he has an audio tape of Lou praising them as geniuses, after seeing them live for the first time...I think Lou is one of those people that doesnt like to compliment the competition

@klmullins65 Жыл бұрын

@@almishti I've read interviews where Lou slammed The Beatles,

@c.d.macaulay66 3 жыл бұрын

White Heat White Light? Try it the other way around. That’s a pretty big detail to get wrong.

@michaelmcdonald8452 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely not narrated by a fan. “Venus in Fur?”

@djamesv 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you said it!

@mikewilson3581 3 жыл бұрын

Without the Velvet Underground my CD and Vinyl collection would be much smaller. Mega influential.

@scotttyson8661 3 жыл бұрын

Yep me also

@sarahwelty9223 Жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@blairmulholland 3 жыл бұрын

This video is full of lies and bs. Anyone who knows VU history will spot the inaccuracies, but the worst sin is the implication that Reed made decisions in the search for commercial success. Geez, he went back to live with his parents and worked as a typist! Does that sound like someone looking for chart hits to you?!

@blakecscott5525 3 жыл бұрын

“Venus in Fur”? The Gray Album “a conventional rock album”? Have they even listened to this music?

@johnmille2267 Жыл бұрын

Lou was weary of the way Steve Sesnick managed the band and that is the reason why he left. He probably thought he’d quite the music industry for good at that point in time. Doug has been blamed for the VU last album Squeeze, but Sesnick is the one, who hoodwinked him into doing that album. It is not Doug’s fault.

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I would try to spot the inaccuracies but I just don't care

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

@@blakecscott5525 great album👍🤞✌🤘👏💖💫

@maureendenham4942 4 ай бұрын

😢 John Cale ❤ 85+ I still wouldn't kick him outta the bed. Only untold I've continually noticed is that The Velvet Underground was+is John Cale's baby. BTW John Cale left of his own accord - my feelings.. best move he made related to TVU. Dear John, 💖 PLEASE come back to ATLANTA 🥰

@nolagospeltracts8264 3 жыл бұрын

How is this untold truth? All the info in this video is common knowledge among Velvets fans.

@evershit4714 2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s just for those that are only “new fans”.. although the official documentary is coming out lol

@peterfrance7489 2 жыл бұрын

Loved them for almost 50 years now but never listened to a documentary on them so some new stuff for me. Nico being chosen by Warhol was a revelation!

@obfuscated3090 2 жыл бұрын

VIEWS. Never forget for a second KZfaq is about views and that the average person is barely literate. That doesn't make them "bad" but they must be engaged as one might a rather stupid child. That goes with the territory and is more likely to introduce noobs to the Velvets who might not otherwise watch. The Velvets music opens minds and not just ancient boomers like self. Whatever shares their stuff effectively in the modern world is fine with me. Peace.

@irish66 4 ай бұрын

So no mention that Lou was a big fan of The Banana Splits.

@chrisbacos 3 жыл бұрын

I first heard of them in the 1980s when there was a revived interest in the group. I have loved them ever since.

@johnkelsiemcnair7787 3 жыл бұрын

I found a copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico's album along with Terry Reid's Seed of Memory and John Coltrane's Giant Steps in trash can in 1979. I still have those LPs.

@misstury606 3 жыл бұрын

What a find! Nice.

@josephsmall4270 3 жыл бұрын

I listen to Nico's solo albums a lot, and VU's first album.

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

Why?

@tvar9672 Жыл бұрын

VU loaded is a fantastic record as well. Really those first 4 are all great.

@sheekennmove Жыл бұрын

@@tvar9672the first fours all they got

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

@josephsmall4270.👍🤞👋

@larkguit 3 жыл бұрын

It's been said that very few people bought Velvet Underground albums, but most of those who did started bands

@michaelhoskins6579 3 жыл бұрын

The "Untold truth" = events that have already been exhaustively documented over the last 50 years, and are already known to most people with a passing interest in The Velvet Underground.

@markcarey67 3 жыл бұрын

"Cale was born in the UK"....didn't you thing people would know where Wales was?

@atomictraveller 3 жыл бұрын

they don't, and if you've got a heart a brain or even just a winkle, you'll help to keep it that way before its full of drive in vasectomy joints

@ThetrueNickabilly 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting footage. Littered with inaccuracies.

@EnoVarma 3 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail is the prettiest picture of David Bowie I've ever seen.

@tmamone83 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say "untold" because I already knew all that stuff. But still great video!

@TheWanderer691 3 жыл бұрын

I always loved both Lou Reed and John Cale. Sadly they were both regarded as difficult people so their break up seemed predictiable. I was told by someone who had worked with John Cale that he was very aloof and the whole experience was unpleasant. It is sad that hardly anyone today even knows who they were despite their considerable influence.

@gaynordurdy7689 3 жыл бұрын

Always thought Cale was way cooler than Reed

@sarahwelty9223 Жыл бұрын

I can believe that John Cale was hard to work with especially post VU, he was heavily fuelled by cocaine most of the time and it probably affected his temperament. I've seen some of his interviews from around the late seventies early eighties and he was very rude and intimidating to the journalist who was interviewing him.

@TheWanderer691 Жыл бұрын

@@sarahwelty9223 The incident I am refering too happened in the late '80's.

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

@@cindytomato what the f..k are you on🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 .if its anything to do with your name god help us 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@sandygibson1197 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you to this amazing band for influencing so many people.

@Daniel-Optician 3 жыл бұрын

Their influence to me a problem too, took "heroin" too literally!!! Around 20 years to sort things out, hey ho all good now. You have a perfect day!!

@ForARide 3 жыл бұрын

Picture at 2:23 is from the Yule lineup and not the Cale lineup. Sloppy editing. And as for the record, Cale wasn't just only a classically trained viola player, but a classically trained multi instrumentalist. The first instrument he learned aged six was the piano.

@gethinap 3 жыл бұрын

John Cale was born in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@maureendenham4942 2 ай бұрын

Gosh 😱 do you think 🤔 he knows 😂

@rabidmoose2682 3 жыл бұрын

White light/White heat! Nuff said!

@robertschlesinger1342 3 жыл бұрын

The group had potential but huge egos got in the way.

@ForARide 3 жыл бұрын

Mainly Reed's

@richardmcgrath9729 2 жыл бұрын

Lou wasn't brought up in Queens..his family story was the classic East European Jewish one of get to NYC with little more than your life..start off in Brooklyn and end up upper-middle class on Long Island...

@Mrariesdave Жыл бұрын

Interesting that Lou Reed and John Cale were born just seven days from each other in 1942...both Pisces Water Horses.

@darthcheney7447 3 жыл бұрын

Bah. Cale and Tucker can put the band back together again and they would fill the house.

@lenini056 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they can get Doug Yule on board to sweeten the deal. I wonder how John Cale and Doug Yule see each other?

@darthcheney7447 2 жыл бұрын

@@lenini056 That thought did occur to me. I think it's more like Mo and her not acting like a Trumptard. Let go of politics and embrace the music I always say.

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

I liked Nico she never got much mention as the others.but she was beautiful .Godbless You Nico..Rest in peace Nico.🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌻🌻🌻🌻💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🌹Amen. I hope your At Peace.

@patrickol4300 8 ай бұрын

Sandra, you're embarrassing yourself. Please, do be quiet.

@BassMisteress101 3 жыл бұрын

Now that you guys covered the Velvet Underground, you should do the Modern Lovers next!

@DianaLopezDlo 3 жыл бұрын

A person of taste 🧐

@mainmaam 2 жыл бұрын

A highly recommended book about the Velvet Underground is by Rob Jovanovic, titled "Seeing the Light".

@funfun5656 2 жыл бұрын

Nico was so beautiful. A shame she died so young

@websurfer5772 Жыл бұрын

I feel badly about the way I heard she died. I don't trust the man who said he found her by the roadside in Spain next to her bike.

@funfun5656 Жыл бұрын

@@websurfer5772 They did a full autopsy...consistent with others who've gone the same way as were accounts of her behaviour leading up to it.

@websurfer5772 Жыл бұрын

@@funfun5656 Well, so they said. It could be true though.

@funfun5656 Жыл бұрын

@@websurfer5772 Could be part of the "MKUltra" operation as agents were said to close their loop. I mean if you believe that similar pretenses are what ultimately took the life of lovely Norma Jean it wouldn't be a stretch to suspect the same happened to Nico (on account of who she chose to keep her company. While conspiracies do happen there's a fine line between being skeptical and putting a minus sign in front of everything you see.

@websurfer5772 Жыл бұрын

@@funfun5656 Excellent points.

@roggill6599 3 жыл бұрын

I've always been a Lou Reed fan.

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

@roggill6599.uve got my vote 👍✌👏💫💖100/100 all the way .he was the man 👍.rest in peace to him .gone but not forgotten Godbless him Amen 🕊🦋🌹

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

It's a pity john cale and Lou never got on they were both great song writers .Rest in peace to lou .hopefully hes happy again .Godbless him Amen🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌻🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

@patrickol4300 8 ай бұрын

What are u talking about ,Cale is alive n well !!????? 😂😂😂

@sandrakenney567 8 ай бұрын

@@patrickol4300 silly me🙄🙄🙄🤔🤣.

@richardawhite4206 3 жыл бұрын

Watch a video on a band who were never sell outs and never achieved commercial success but yet I have to watch three commercials in a ten minute video. Oh the irony.

@udomatthiasdrums5322 2 жыл бұрын

still love it!!

@7rays 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Lou

@flaviuscountry 3 жыл бұрын

I like the song where Lou called Bob Dylan a prententious k*ke and then released an album of guitar feedback. Classy guy

@michaelmcdonald8452 3 жыл бұрын

I like Squeeze in and of itself but I’ve never seen it referred to as “a Velvet Underground album” with any seriousness.

@misstury606 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the VU never went mainstream. It would've ruined the band and it's music. Just like Aerosmith when they went all commercial. They were great and did their best work in the 70's and 80's imho. I love Lou Reed and everything he did.

@tompanoname3579 3 жыл бұрын

Oh Sweet Nuthin'

@alanparker3130 Жыл бұрын

I did not notice any "untold truth". Totally standard issue, in fact.

@petejones879 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how Lou got on with John's broad Welsh accent.. Must have been mind blowing for a New Yorker

@delroywilson9588 3 жыл бұрын

What's the "untold" part of this?

@timper4326 Жыл бұрын

There was a band in the early 60s they took their sound from I wish I could remember the name of the band, but their music wasn't new, but it was an Avant Gard sound.

@Robertegan 3 жыл бұрын

" at 5:24 . . ."After the failure of White Heat/White Light..." !? Is that the Bizarro Jerry version of White light/White Heat.

@ministerofdarkness 3 жыл бұрын

The few who heard the Velvet Underground went on to start a band.

@louvanlou9441 3 жыл бұрын

not me.

@barberoriley5059 3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t

@patrickol4300 8 ай бұрын

Eh, nope 😂

@JD._.PICTURES 3 жыл бұрын

I can rest now

@James-bv4nu 2 жыл бұрын

"So I'm back, to the Velvet... hmmm... Underground... Back to the floor, that I love. To a room, with some lace, and paper flowers. Back to the gypsy, that I was... To the gypsy... that I was."

@ryandenis7667 3 жыл бұрын

should've said John Cale was born in Wales

@petejones879 3 ай бұрын

There Is no Velvet UG without Lou Reed and John Cale

@gavinjh1303 3 жыл бұрын

The most underrated & greatest Avant-garde rock band

@whatishappeing 3 жыл бұрын

how can they be underrated when everyone who's heard of them worships them

@gavinjh1303 3 жыл бұрын

@@whatishappeing underrated from.a commercial aspect..

@whatishappeing 3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinjh1303 lou reed's net worth is 15 mil

@gavinjh1303 3 жыл бұрын

@@whatishappeing whoa..Thanks for the info ..I actually mean the VU not Lou Reed but thanks for sharing the information though..

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

@@whatishappeing No, I can single handedly back this comment up. I think that this band is completely forgettable. One day no one will ever play their music again

@rickkiebiech6088 3 жыл бұрын

Sister Ray.

@FairwayJack 3 жыл бұрын

Coney Island Baby was a good album ... that was a solo effort

@royferguson3909 3 жыл бұрын

no shit ! Sherlock. ' wow' , have you read a book ???? Clever you Please, tell us something, we don't know . Please be an American, cos I expect more from my British counterparts. you be saying that Monty Python, are the funniest thing since Billy Collenerly, next. somethings are so obvious...that they don't need to be said . I ha e had a " bad " day. so I apologise, BUT stating the obvious, is just ...just...puerile. love and peace....man

@misstekhead 3 жыл бұрын

I’m in no way a fluent German speaker, but the way the narrator pronounced Nico’s real name, Christa Päffgen, just sounded way off.

@AndyMangele 3 жыл бұрын

German is my first language - and yes: it was indeed way off!

@fleadoggreen9062 6 ай бұрын

Did they all get a piece of the publishing

@cartoonsandcannabis 10 ай бұрын

Lou was from Long Island

@andreaandrea6716 Жыл бұрын

Where's the fire? Maybe you could slow down a tiny bit...? It's so fast it's almost garbled. I don't have time to take it in. I want to SAVOUR the information (not feel like I'm being hurried out the door). It's VERY interesting.

@imsocuteimsorich4952 2 жыл бұрын

Lou was a natural in his ways and an icon to me,his .music .may not have satisfied others but he was to me a genius whey it came to his music,rest in peace Lou you will always be my man👍✊✌💓👏🌹

@shadygroves8252 3 жыл бұрын

the best band to ever do it

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

To do what?

@eatbliss8895 Жыл бұрын

@@rangers94ism you know? It.

@rafaelrojas1400 3 жыл бұрын

it was time.

@seanp9277 10 ай бұрын

Loaded suffers greatly because of the absence of Maureen Tucker.

@Mozart1220 3 жыл бұрын

If it's "untold" how do these people know?

@AllenSentinery 2 ай бұрын

Neat.

@awickedtribe 5 ай бұрын

Most people don't know that Lou Reed, contrary to his love for R&B, put together the Velvet Underground with the idea of creating "rock and Roll' without Black influences.

@maureendenham4942 Ай бұрын

@@awickedtribe CALE put together TVU, with some more assistance from Reed...

@truecynic1270 3 жыл бұрын

Walk on the Wild Side is a TRUE classic. The lyrics, alone, reflect the reality of the time. Oh, yes. But Warhol was/is a fake! His artwork is quite poor.

@55vermeer 3 жыл бұрын

lol ...As if their music isn't.

@Alsatiagent 3 жыл бұрын

@@55vermeer Their music was quite unique.

@55vermeer 3 жыл бұрын

@@Alsatiagent I'll give you that.

@davidpaul6656 3 жыл бұрын

Btw Walk on the Wild Side is NOT a Velvet Underground song. It's probably THE ONLY GOOD song Lou Reed ever wrote.

@jabba820 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidpaul6656 hold up- only good song?? Bad take my dude. No love for even Perfect Day on that same album???

@Desibeatnik 3 жыл бұрын

it's a shame what happened to Mo Tucker

@nicorigo5661 3 жыл бұрын

what happened to Moe?

@johncale814 2 жыл бұрын

This is what a documentary made by a bot looks like. "Nico Paf-jen?"

@demonte6582 3 жыл бұрын

...and where is the "untold" part of the story?

@tradrjk 7 ай бұрын

Hey....I went to highschool with Doug....hi Doug

@dennismartinovich4639 3 жыл бұрын

Lou Reed lived to be 71 wow after years of abusing you're bodysomething got to give

@MegaMarkitos99 2 жыл бұрын

Some ppl really are just able to push themselves as far as physically possible, my gma is 91 and a smoker her whole life and on morphine meds and can still talk a storm and walk like nothing😂 then you got the other side where ya die young af from an OD. Just staying far away from hard drugs is the way to go

@robinburn4974 3 жыл бұрын

I met Nico once in the late sixties, nice lady but away with the fairies 😊

@nc5809 3 жыл бұрын

I heard she wasn't very nice. I believe the fairies part. Heroin makes some people see fairies, anyway.

@evhbombastic Жыл бұрын

Has anyone heard about the sixsome tryst of Jagger-Warhol-Bowie-Dali-Reed-Picasso? Bono and Pollock were a little too lat3.

@louistracy6964 3 жыл бұрын

4 minutes in and nothing new. Untold boredom.

@craignightingale8022 3 жыл бұрын

Check out John Cale's depiction in Songs they never play on the radio- once he becomes a health freak, it's jokes.

@rporta 2 жыл бұрын

where's the untold truth??

@natures_neighbor 2 жыл бұрын

How is this “the unknown truth” when all of the information you discussed is well known and widely available to anyone with a computer? Click bait.

@fredzep01 3 жыл бұрын

It's weird to think about Nico living in Manchester North UK on council estates. see kiddies say no to drugs, from the stars to the toilet.

@sam-ww1wk Жыл бұрын

Actually, all that has been told....for a long, long, time..

@rockets4kids 3 жыл бұрын

I predict every truth will have already been told many times...

@Vinylhead66BlogspotDe 3 жыл бұрын

thta is not unttold Thrut, everybody knows that. let me alone

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

The untold truth? With these guys it pick a truth, any truth. Seriously, does anyone even know who they are? My guess is they will be forgotten in about 10 years. So long Velvet Underground. We never knew you

@danablue5019 3 жыл бұрын

Stuff everyone knows about TVU

@VuotoPneumaNN 8 ай бұрын

Erik Satie has fuck all to do with influencing The Velvet Underground. You should have mentioned LaMonte Young or Terry Riley instead. And Phil Soector wasn't a musician.

@swillbill6640 3 жыл бұрын

Reinvented? More like took a dump on it.

@gregorygarcia7807 2 жыл бұрын

At this time: 3/1/22 I would like to remember The Velvet Underground for being the music of the velvet revolution we see taking place today in Ukraine. A revolution for democracy as I see it. The greatest threats to peace are trigger words and phrases. Democratic balance must temper all Republic's "Patriotic" zeal for their parties local independent control of "Politics".

@patrickol4300 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@sekil75 Жыл бұрын

Venus in Fur.....( it's Venus in Furs Can you pay attention to what you're saying?

@uppercutgrandma4425 2 жыл бұрын

I feel that The Velvet Underground would prefer the PS5 over the Xbox Series X.

@evhbombastic Жыл бұрын

All of this might have been true if anyone had actually listened to them in the first place.

@danahatch 6 ай бұрын

No untold truth here. And um excuse me, White Heat/White Light?!?

@mgmchicago 3 жыл бұрын

The Untold Truth? Shouldn't it be The Tragic Truth from this Tragic Channel?

@bosseraven9180 2 жыл бұрын

Untold truth??? Nothing here new to me!!!

@YDNTK-ui4uc 3 жыл бұрын

"Your damn right I Sold Out, I sell out every night I Hit the stage" Gene Simmons

@Mozart1220 3 жыл бұрын

Except they haven't for a long long time. KISS stopped being relevant in 1978. I USED to be a HUGE fan until they went disco and trashed Ace and Peter.

@aliceborealis 2 жыл бұрын

Gend Simmons is a disgusting pig, and not worthy of being mentioned in a convo about VU.