The Velvet Underground

Warhol adopted the band the Velvet Underground as one of his projects in the 1960s, "producing" their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico as well as providing the album art. His actual participation in the album's production amounted to simply paying for the studio time. After the band's first album, Warhol and band leader Lou Reed started to disagree more about the direction the band should take, and the contact between them faded.
The musicians on the album consisted of the first professional line up of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker, plus Nico singing lead on three tracks ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and back up on "Sunday Morning". Nico was added on the instigation of their mentor, Andy Warhol.





Warhol designed the cover art for The Rolling Stones albums Sticky Fingers (1971) and Love You Live (1977). In 1975, Warhol was commissioned to do several portraits of the band's frontman Mick Jagger.

Warhol was also friendly with many musicians, including Bob Dylan and John Lennon - he designed the cover to Lennon's 1986 posthumously released Menlove Avenue. Warhol also appeared as a bartender in The Cars' music video for their single "Hello Again," and Curiosity Killed The Cat's video for their "Misfit" single (both videos, and others, were produced by Warhol's video production company). He had a crush on Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, with whom he met fairly often.

Warhol strongly influenced the new wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie - who recorded a song entitled "Andy Warhol" for his 1971 Hunky Dory album.


The Velvet Underground Video

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