ANDY WARHOL - VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO - 1967
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1967 'PEELING BANANA' ALBUM, PRODUCED BY ANDY WARHOL
MANUFACTURED BY MGM - COVER PRINTED IN USA
V/V6-5008 STEREO
COVER DESIGN by ACY LEHMEN
LINER PHOTOS by NAT FINKELSTEIN & BILLY LINCH
PORTRAITS by PAUL MORRISSEY
COVER PAINTING ‘BANANA’ by ANDY WARHOL
THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THIS 37 YEAR OLD ALBUM IS…
...IT IS AS MINT AS YOU ARE EVER LIKELY TO GET!
THE COVER IS WHITE (WITH FEINTEST—AND I MEAN FEINTEST—OF BROWNING AROUND EDGES ONLY) AND CLEAN .
THE BANANA IS ABSOLUTLY UNTOUCHED! NO PICKING, LIFTING OR MARKS.
COLOURS ON BACK PHOTO ARE VIBRANT. PRINTING ON CENTER PANELS IS ALSO VIBRANT AND UNMARKED (SEE PHOTOS). STUNNING!
VINYL IS IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.
THIS IS REALLY THE FINEST ORIGINAL COPY OF THIS RECORD YOU ARE LIKELY TO FIND. RELEASED IN 1967. 37 YEARS OLD....
The Velvet Underground and Nico is one of the most important rock debut records ever made. It is certainly the most imitated. Yet nothing, during its time or since, has caused such a cataclysmic rupture in the rock and roll timeline, between What Is and What's Next. An album of unaffected but stubbornly independent genius, The Velvet Underground and Nico remains a marvel of ferocious eloquence, crude expansive majesty and subversive accomplishment.
Warhol had never produced a record before. But he had the intutive good sence to leave well enough alone; the tapes rolled and the Velvets played. The Velvet Underground and Nico is essentially the live set that the band performed throughout 1966 and early '67 as the centerpiece of Warhol's madhouse film, dance and pop-art roadshow the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Much of the album was recorded in eight hours, live in the studio. But for all of its intended avant-droll simplicity, Warhol's famous cover design - the peelable banana - captured what was really going on in the music: the layers of sexual tension and confessional argument; Reed's matter-of-fact rendering of dead-end thrills and emotional alienation; the cut, thrust and caress of the music itself.
A RARE PIECE OF VINYL IN A1 CONDITION
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