1967 Velvet Underground & Nico Torso LP Peelable Banana Remastered Penny Start

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	$		31

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UNPEELED VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO REMASTERED VERVE TORSO LP 
PRODUCED BY ANDY WARHOL


LOT DESCRIPTION, PLEASE READ 
This LP is the Verve label remaster of the original 1st State 1st Pressing LP with a complete banana: the so called "Torso Cover" which was the earliest iteration of the LP back in 1967. 
BIOGRAPHY
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) was a groundbreaking multimedia performance series created by Andy Warhol in 1966 that fused art, music, film, and live performance into a chaotic and immersive sensory experience. 
Central to the EPI were The Velvet Underground, Warhol's protégé band known for their raw, experimental sound, and Nico, a German singer and model who Warhol insisted join the group, adding an icy, hypnotic vocal presence. 
The performances featured live music accompanied by strobing lights, multiple overlapping Warhol film projections, mirrored balls, and provocative dancing by Factory regulars like Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov, creating a hallucinatory environment that mirrored the psychedelic and avant-garde spirit of the era. 
The EPI toured various venues including The Dom in New York and The Fillmore in San Francisco, confronting audiences with a radical blend of art and music that broke down traditional performance boundaries and laid the foundation for the multimedia concert experiences of the future. 
It was at an early EPI gig that amongst the multi media showcase, New York actor Eric Emerson's image was projected onto a screen behind the band. 
A still photo of the band taken by Hugo and with Eric in the background, would later become the (notorious) rear sleeve artwork for what would become the most influential LP in rock history, The Velvet Underground & Nico. 
A law suit brought by Emerson against the record company would hamper sales of the LP's first pressing (that very same LP for sale here) and his face would be covered/removed from subsequent pressings of the LP until a legal solution was found.  
Meanwhile The Velvet Underground and Nico's cult status was cemented while Andy Warhol’s influence redefined the intersection of pop culture and experimental art.
Leo Castelli opened an art gallery on New York’s 77th Street in 1957 with the intention of showing the best of contemporary American art. It was here that Andy Warhol debuted his Flowers paintings in November 1964, mere months after having had a major show at Ileana’s Galerie in Paris. 
In 1966 Warhol's iconic screen print of a banana on laminated plastic was exhibited.  The laminated plastic peelable banana was widely featured in Warhol catalogue raisonné of the time. 
Soon after the same laminated plastic "peelable banana" would appear with Warhol's name on the front cover of the Velvet Underground & Nico's debut LP. 
Warhol would go on to exhibit his iconic banana as a serigraph while debuting other new projects such as his Silver Clouds and Mao portraits at Castelli’s New York gallery well into the late 80s.  
Castelli himself would earn a reputation as one of the foremost publicists of contemporary American art.
TRACK LIST
A1 Sunday Morning (2:53) A2 I'm Waiting For The Man (4:37) A3 Femme Fatale (2:35) A4 Venus In Furs (5:07) A5 Run Run Run (4:18) A6 All Tomorrow's Parties (5:55)
B1 Heroin (7:05) B2 There She Goes Again (2:30) B3 I'll Be Your Mirror (2:01) B4 The Black Angel's Death Song (3:10) B5 European Son (7:40)
THE BAND
Vocals, Guitar, Piano – Lou Reed Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar – Sterling Morrison Vocals, Organ, Bass Guitar – Doug Yule Percussion – Maureen Tucker Vocals - Nico
CATALOGUE
Verve label 371 710-8
CONDITION
NM / NM UNPLAYED
Reassure yourself of condition by referring to the many large photographs provided which are not library shots but photographs of the actual LP you are buying. 
The peelable banana is complete with some surface rubbing, wear and very minor splitting. 
The vinyl is stored separately in an anti-static sleeve. 
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Securely consigned fully insured under eBay Buyer Protection, packaged and protected in a reinforced record mailer with stiffeners and shipped using tracked international postal service.
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