White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day

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Jawbone Press, Jun 1, 2009 - Music - 367 pages
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(Book). By turns fiercely confrontational, literate, primitive and sweetly melodic, The Velvet Underground remain one of the most influential bands in the history of rock. The ultimate cult band and the ultimate art rock experience, the VU's music and style have served as a blueprint for everyone from David Bowie to The Jesus and Mary Chain. Yet for all their enduring importance, they were unsuccessful in their day, selling minute numbers of records, with their monochrome look and photo-realist lyrics at odds with the garish colors and peace fantasies of the hippy era. It was only when David Bowie started to champion the band in the early 70s, after they had split up, that the VU's reputation started to spread. In White Light/White Heat , noted rock writer and historian Richie Unterberger analyses the band's career and influence in forsensic detail, drawing on many new interviews with band members and associates, previously undiscovered archive sources and a vast knowledge of the music of the times. The result is a comprehensive, articulate, immensely detailed history the most thorough work on the band yet published.

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This book is astonishing. The amount of detail is almost frightening and yet the book is a GREAT read. Completely entertaining from cover to cover. The bands story is as unique as their music was and ... Read full review

White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day (Genuine Jawbone Books)

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Unterberger (The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix), a frequent contributor to the All Music web site, offers an exhaustive and well-researched day-by-day account of the Velvet Underground from the late ... Read full review

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About the author (2009)

Richie Unterberger is an acclaimed author and music historian, renowned for his meticulous research. A regular contributor to the All Music website, Mojo, Record Collector and many other publications, he has also written hundreds of liner notes for CD reissues of classic albums of the 1960s and 1970s. His previous books include Unknown Legends of Rock n'n Roll; the two-part 1960s folk-rock history Eight Miles High and Turn! Turn! Turn!; White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day; and The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, which won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

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