Download or read book The Dead Straight Guide to The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed written by Peter Hogan and published by This Day In Music Books. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvets straddled art and rock, changing popular music forever, and sowing the seeds for punk, grunge and thousands of countercultural four-chord wonders. The Velvet Story: How Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale and co emerged from the New York scene, their successes and excesses and what happened to each in their solo years. Velvet Music: all there recordings plus all of Lou Reed's solo work. Velvetology includes Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, David Bowie, Delmore Schwaretsz and Brian Eno and the Velvets' on screen and in New York, their influences, covers, websites and more.