Lou Reed

"Capturing Lou Reed in his formative years, this previously unreleased collection of songs--authored and recorded to tape by Reed with the help of future bandmate John Cale, and mailed to himself as a 'poor man's copyright' on May 11th, 1965--remained unopened for nearly 50 years; features the earliest known recordings of 'I'm waiting for the man,' 'Pale blue eyes,' and 'Heroin' as made famous by The Velvet Underground; includes six unheard tracks...

Andy Warhol’s aluminum foil-covered Silver Factory becomes the hot bed of avant-garde creativity in Sixties New York City. Pop Art, provocative movies, sex, drugs, and The Velvet Underground. Recalled by those who were there and lived to talk about it.

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...