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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Falk, Lou Reed, Stephen Crane, Bob Costas, Joe Biden, David Falk, Aaron Sorkin, Vanessa L. Williams, Richard Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Al Davis, Ina Garten, Dick Clark, Steven Pressman, Christine A. Varney, Julia Alvarez, Howard Wyeth, Jim Brown, Pete Yorn, John C. Mcginley, Gary Gait, Ted Koppel, John D. Macdonald, Charles V. Willie, Nancy Jacobson, Michelangelo Signorile, Renée Cox, Story Musgrave, Al D'amato, Beau Biden, Michael Cole, Evelyn Stokes, William M. Fraser Iii, Paul Gait, John Berry, Monroe Sweetland, Kevin Michael Richardson, Steven Schwartz, John Paul Vann, Sol Lewitt, Taye Diggs, Scott Mccloud, Maltbie Davenport Babcock, David Laidler, Lisa Lampanelli, Lexington Steele, Franklin G. Reick, Sean Mcdonough, Mark Lombardi, Debra Wilson, Donna Shalala, Kevin A. Ring, Jerry Stiller, Ed Esber, James Franklin Hyde, Peter Weller, John H. Mulroy, John Follis, Jessica Cutler, Alice Sebold, Ian Schrager, Tom Perrotta, Craig Carton, Eileen Collins, Trudy H. Clark, Todd Harrison, Chris Meek, Lyn Lifshin, Emily Helen Butterfield, Robert Jarvik, Mark Napier, Koren Zailckas, Raymond Meier, Cody Jamieson, George Saunders, Michael Stern, Jon Bramnick, William B. Williams, Fred Silverman, Keith A. Wheeler, Raymond T. Schuler, Gertrude Simmons Burlingham, Daniel J. Flood, Donald E. Williams, Jr., Betsey Johnson, Michael J. Panter, Craig Benson, Tom Rooney, Warren Rudman, George S. Blanchard, James E. Graves, Jr., Steve Rubell, Mark Achbar, Matthew Tobin Anderson, Ted Sarandis, Arvind Sharma, Mary Jo Putney, Jay Rabinowitz, Habib Wali Mohammad, Roosevelt Mercer, Jr., Carolyne Wright, Brad Kotz, Larry Hryb, Stanley L. Greigg, Don Morrow, Miss Jones, Joseph S. Kozlowski, Joe Castiglione, Steve Gladstone, Albert Baez, John Allman, Gary Chan... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=145422 ... Read more

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Chapters: Serge Gainsbourg, Paul Simon, Arlo Guthrie, Art Garfunkel, Lou Reed, Barbra Streisand, Paula Abdul, Billy Joel, Kinky Friedman, Gene Simmons, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Marianne Faithfull, Al Jolson, Amy Winehouse, Scarlett Johansson, Elliott Yamin, Leonard Cohen, David D'or, David Lee Roth, Ashley Tisdale, Pink, Dinah Shore, Rachel Stevens, Bette Midler, Zac Efron, Mark Ronson, the Reform Jewish Cantorate During the 19th Century, Idina Menzel, Helen Reddy, Lynsey de Paul, Drake, Mel Tormé, Sara Paxton, Lisa Loeb, Frankie Vaughan, Craig David, Elkie Brooks, Eydie Gormé, Nina Gordon, Enrico Macias, Samantha Ronson, Libby Holman, Brenda K. Starr, Susanna Hoffs, Linda Lavin, Chava Alberstein, Jan Peerce, Theodore Bikel, Etti Ankri, Michel Polnareff, Helen Slater, Tina Karol, Joseph Kobzon, Zarif, Allan Moon, Helen Shapiro, Yaakov Shwekey, Julia Feldman, Joe Dassin, Dorothy Sarnoff, Soulfarm, Roni Dalumi, Cantor in Reform Judaism, Polly Bergen, Michel Berger, Shiri Maimon, Yael Naim, Josh Keaton, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Cristian Castro, Hayden, Marc Cohn, Lhasa de Sela, Sarit Hadad, Rebecca Pidgeon, Antony Costa, Keren Ann, Dezső Ernster, Nora Bayes, Dick James, Mike Brant, Rashi Shapiro, David Draiman, Fania Fénelon, Yaniv D'or, Jenifer Bartoli, Ian Broudie, Marina Maximilian Blumin, Matt Dusk, Richard Manitoba, Yudik Mullodzhanov, Gad Elbaz, Jean Ferrat, Meir Ariel, Lucy Kaplansky, Zehava Ben, Ben Jorgensen, Mei Finegold, Sophie Milman, Meir Banai, Mounir Mourad, Diane Renay, Keren Peles, Allison Wolfe, Morgan Lander, Boris Moiseev, Julie Zenatti, Youddiph, Ophélie Winter, Boaz Sharabi, Esther Ofarim, Shlomi Shabat, Eddie Butler, Carol Bruce, Dov Shurin, Fatima Kuinova, Bas Sheva, Dolly Haas, Shuli Natan, Paul Wilbur, Chaim-Dovid Saracik, Reinette L'oranaise, Marion Rung, Sahaj, Larusso, Ari Goldwag, Rosa Mullodzhanova, Mathilda Berwald, Sidi Tal, Blue Fringe, Jackie Rae, Solomon Khromchenko, G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19563640 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lou Reed, John Cale, Doug Yule, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Angus Maclise, Willie Alexander, Walter Powers, Billy Yule. Excerpt:Angus MacLise (Bridgeport, Connecticut , March 4, 1938 - Kathmandu , Nepal June 21, 1979) was an American percussionist , composer , poet , occultist and calligrapher probably best known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground . Biography MacLise was a member of La Monte Young 's Theater of Eternal Music , with John Cale , Tony Conrad , Marian Zazeela and sometimes Terry Riley . He contributed to the early Fluxus newspaper VTre, edited by George Brecht , and was also an early member of The Velvet Underground , having been brought into the group by flatmate John Cale when they were living at 56 Ludlow Street in Manhattan . MacLise played bongos and hand drums during 1965 with the first incarnation of the band. Although the Velvets regularly extemporised soundtracks to underground films, MacLise never officially recorded with them, and is often considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in their history. When the opportunity of the band's first paying gig in November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, suggesting the group had sold out . MacLise was replaced by Maureen Tucker , resulting in the "classic" lineup of The Velvet Underground. In 1966 when Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed was in hospital with hepatitis , MacLise rejoined the group for a few performances. By this time the Velvet Underground had found some notoriety (if not great financial success) and MacLise was anxious to rejoin the group, but this was explicitly refused by Reed. After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus travelled around between North Africa , India , Greece , the Middle East and finally found his place in Nepal . La Monte Young , Marian Z... ... Read more

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Classic adult magazine featuring an interview with Jean-Paul Sartre, a feature on Lou Reed, a photo-feature on the Bugatti, soccer, lots of nude pictorials, and much more! ... Read more

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The Velvet Underground is an astonishing assembly of rare objects and artworks and the first book of its scale to document the formative years of the band Time Out magazine named the greatest New York musicians of all time. From never-before-seen photographs of the band’s first live show in New York to Andy Warhol’s cover and poster designs, Lou Reed’s handwritten music and lyrics, underground press clippings and controversial reviews, flyers, handbills, and posters, the materials here comprise a uniquely comprehensive survey of the first rock group ever to transcend the genre and embrace underground popular culture. Including a conversation recorded especially for the book between founding members Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker, this beautifully illustrated book is the first to present a definitive picture of the band’s genesis and development in the extraordinary New York scene of the mid- to late-1960s. ... Read more

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Exceptional Book of Photos & Interviews
Wonderful book full of rare & well-reproduced photos, on heavy high quality pages. How about Lou Reed performing at Syracuse University for rare? How about the Falling Spikes (with Lou, Sterling, Sterling, & Angus, before Mo) on the streets of New York City, for rare? The photos are of every imaginable aspect of the group's history (including a contract with MGM Records, July 1966, signed by Christa Paffgen & the others). Probably more than a casual fan of the group would want, but a real goldmine for the most velvet of Underground fans. Includes several interviews with Velvet Underground members that are interspersed throughout the photos. A chronology, compositional music sheets (including "Heroin"), publicity photos, record labels/covers, are among the photos. My only complaint is the lack of an index.

The Velvet Underground - New York Art
When people speak of the work of New York's first underground art-rock band, the word that usually comes to mind is 'seminal' - after all this is the group that later influenced an entire NY rock scene from Television to Sonic Youth and many others (their influence extended well beyond these shores to most of Europe as well.)

In this new book, edited by Johan Kugelberg, the word that most comes to mind, is `art.' Kugelberg, in his love and devotion to this early NY rock ensemble, has assembled the first and only monograph of the band's formative years. This unique, coffee-table format art book compiles an impressive collection of rare photographs, handbills, press clippings, flyers, posters and handwritten lyrics from the beginning and early days of the Velvets journey.

Known in the beginning as `Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground,' (the book begins with a classified ad that Warhol placed offering to associate his name with products, bands, etc, in the New York area), the band made their name largely by playing `events' rather than mere concerts, that revolved around places like Warhol's loft parties and Steve Paul's NY club, The Scene.

While this volume's focus is primarily on the early days of the band, there is also an updated interview with the VU's Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker (the band's Sterling Morrison has since passed away while Reed and John Cale remain somewhat distant) as well as an extensive band chronology which adds the perspective of time to the mix. Several of the other reprinted articles and interviews (from Lester Bangs and others) provide a window into many of the thoughts of the band at the time of their ascent (Beatles, good - Zappa, bad.)

Kugelberg's research and rendering give way to a feeling that given the highly visual nature of rock'n'roll - and the notion of rock music as art, that there are many groups who would benefit from the almost catalog raisonne nature of this book. Hopefully, this will be a harbinger of things to come. ... Read more

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"Dorita The Spirit" , "What's Good The Thesis" , "Power and GloryThe Situation" , "Magician Internally" , "Sword of Damocles Externally" ,"Goodby Mass In a Chapel Bodily Termination" ,"Cremation Ashes to Ashes" , "Dreamin Escape" , "No Chance Regret" ,"Warrior King Revenge" , "Harry's Circumcision Reverie Gone Astray" , "Gassed and Stoked Loss" ,"Power and Glory, Part II Magic - Transformation" ,"Magic and LossThe Summation" ... Read more

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Index Magazine Volume 7 #5Cover: Udo Kier photographed by Richard Kern. Plus: Kid America, architect Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk interviewed by Peter Halley, Antony of Antony and the Johnsons interviewed by Lou Reed, fiction section with stories by Mary Gaitskill, Eileen Myles, and Heather Lewis. ... Read more