All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971 glam to the tumultuous 1960s and

to the tumultuous 1960s and Montreal’s unique experiments in free jazz and fusion

unprecedentedly coherent yet freewheeling and open-ended

Written from the alternating perspectives of three fake music journalist superheroes-featuring interviews with Wildchild

Blending interviews

All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971 glam to the tumultuous 1960s andBy Clinton Heylin The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York. "Discovered" by Andy Warhol in 1966, the VU with their original line up of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Mo Tucker would soon become the house band of the avantgarde, composing songs simultaneously furious in their