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'So viscous': New Velvet Underground doc reveals how Lou Reed was given convulsive therapy to ...
The Daily Mail 23 Oct 2021
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Leslie Bricusse, ‘Willy Wonka,’ ‘Goldfinger’ Songwriter, Dies at 90
Yahoo Music 19 Oct 2021
Read full article. Oops!. Something went wrong ... More content below ... “Who Can I Turn To,” from that show, was a hit for Tony Bennett; “A Wonderful Day Like Today” is now a standard and “Feeling Good” was recorded by numerous artists including Nina Simone. With Cyril Ornadel, he also wrote “Pickwick” for the West End in 1963; on his own, “Sherlock Holmes.
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Todd Haynes brings ‘The Velvet Underground’ art scene back to life
Boston Herald 15 Oct 2021
MOVIE REVIEW. “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND”. Rated R ... Grade. A- ... John Cale, a Welshman who played the viola, among other instruments, and studied with the likes of John Cage and La Monte Young, joined Reed, who was interested in experimental music and was working for Pickwick Records, a low-cost record label, churning out singles ... ....
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Apple TV+ documentary ‘The Velvet Underground’ is a trippy entryway into an influential band
The Daily Dot 15 Oct 2021
When you’re watching and listening to people talk about Lou Reed’s origins in Long Island and his start at Pickwick Records, or how John Cale, a classically trained artist from Wales who came to New York to study with La Monte Young, ended up in Reed’s orbit, you’re also watching ...
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Elegant And Brutal: Todd Haynes On The Myth Of The Velvet Underground
The Quietus 15 Oct 2021
... from a recording of ‘Heroin’ ... He is presented as a sickly, sexually conflicted coiled spring – “a tortured person”, according to Warhol superstar Mary Woronov – who earned his songwriting chops knocking out production line pop songs, like so many Brillo boxes, at Pickwick Records.
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‘The Velvet Underground’ review: revisionist doc reworks narrative of New York rock and rollers
NME 09 Jul 2021
... he explained to a record company executive that his aim was to “get rich and be a rock star” by any means, whether that meant cracking out cheapo doo-wop songs for Pickwick Records or fronting novelty song ‘The Ostrich’ with pre-Velvets band The Primitives.
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The Alternative Guitar Christmas Playlist
Guitar.com 24 Dec 2020
Recorded for Chess in 1964, this one sees Berry in much more sentimental form ... This one, also known as Christmas Blues and released as Christmas Time is Coming on Pickwick Records’ 1965 LP The King Of The Blues, turned up on Hopkins’ earlier Mojo Hand album, released on Bobby Robinson’s Fire label in 1962.
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The Genius Of… The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Guitar.com 16 Sep 2020
The record that launched a thousand bands ... Pre-Velvets, Reed was a songwriter for Pickwick Records when he teamed up with rock-loving avant-garde viola player and multi-instrumentalist John Cale to promote Reed’s novelty-dance hit, The Ostrich ... The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve Records, 1967) Credits.
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