Velvet Underground
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Velvet Underground

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Personnel: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar, background vocals); Doug Yule (organ, background vocals); Maureen Tucker (percussion).Audio Mixer: Val Valentin.Recording information: T.T>G. Studios, Hollywood, CA (11/1968-12/1968).Photographers: Doug Yule; Billy Name.Arranger: The Velvet Underground.Velvet Underground's self-titled third album seemed like the debut of a new band. John Cale had left (replaced by Doug Yule) and the group became, for all intents and purposes, Lou Reed's back-up band. The songs actually sounded like rock music and John Cale's screeching musicality was reworked into songs that featured Sterling Morrison's most eloquent guitar accompaniment.Reed's songwriting moved beyond the armed-to-disarm approach of the previous two albums towards a spiritual level of empathy with the human race--a change that wouldn't go unnoticed. The man who once begged someone to "nullify [his] life" ("Heroin") was now asking "Jesus" to "help me

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