Why was the Velvet Underground so controversial? We look at the Andy Warhol connection, the band's influence and how Sterling ...
No one thought The Velvet Underground and Nico—with its songs about S&M and narcotics and its distortion-heavy production—would make the pop charts alongside more mainstream bands like the ...
Their debut album, 1967’s ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ includes songs about drug addicts, transvestites and hookers; its 1968 follow-up, ‘White Light / White Heat,’ is even darker.