White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Story, in Pictures and Sound
The story of this legendary band, including film clips and little-heard recordings from throughout their career!
From 1965 to 1970, the Velvet Underground were instrumental in breaking new barriers in rock music in the controversial subjects their lyrics addressed and the experimental sounds they introduced into rock arrangements. Managed for a time by Andy Warhol, they bridged the worlds of cutting-edge art and popular music, paced by the penetrating songwriting of singer and guitarist Lou Reed.
Richie Unterberger's White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day is by far the most comprehensive book on the Velvet Underground ever published. It details the group's recording sessions, record releases, concerts, press reviews, and other major events shaping their career with both thorough detail and critical insight. Drawing on about 100 interviews and exhaustive research through documents and recordings rarely or never accessed, it unearths stories that have seldom been told, and eyewitness accounts that have seldom seen print, from figures ranging from band members to managers, producers, record executives, journalists, concert
promoters, and fans. The July issue of Mojo magazine hails it as "an impressive means to reflect on the conundrum of what could be the ultimate cult band...detailed and anecdote-packed."
His presentation about the Velvet Underground at Comix will use rare audiovisual material to tell the story of this legendary band, including film clips; little-heard recordings from throughout their career; and pictures and posters of the group in their 1965-70 prime, many of them seldom seen.
AUTHOR BIO...
Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous acclaimed rock history books, including Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll and a two-volume history of 1960s folk-rock, Turn! Turn! Turn!/Eight Miles High. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. He lives in San Francisco.
9th August 2009
Comix
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Just East of 9th Avenue
New York, NY10014
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