Feed-Back. The Velvet Underground: legend, truth

The Velvet Underground didn't end with Reed leaving in 1970, or with untimely deaths of Warhol and Nico in the late Eighties, but with Sterling Morrison's passing in 1955. He lives again as the central voice in these chronicles of a trans-Atlantic musical journey that transformed the very foundations of Rock as much as Dylan or The Beatles. From their avantgarde beginnings to pop music's deepest mythology, Feed-Back documents the rock icon while grasping for the flesh and truth inside the legend, in a series of exclusive conversations with all its members, and critical appreciations, that run from the early Sixties to the present, including Reed and Cale's solo careers until today. Rare photographs and memorabilia illustrate this personal diary that will engage fans and newcomers alike.

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Foreword
European son: A transatlantic experience

Part I. "Feed-back: The legend of The Velvet Underground"
(Originally published as the book Feed-back: La leyenda de los Velvet Underground, 1986, Ruta 66)

Part II. "Out in the wilderness, strugglin' to get back home"
- Lou Reed: A Rock'n'roll heart's jukebox (exclusive)
- John Cale: New York in the Sixties (Ruta 66, 2002)
- Nico: I had to make my summer record in the rain (liner notes for "I'm not saying" reissue single, Munster Records)
- The Velvet Underground: At the Factory (liner notes for At The Factory: Warhol Tapes CD, 2005, Nothing Songs, Japan)
- Lou Reed / John Cale: Shooting at the mainstream (Transformer and Paris 1919 reviews from 1001 records you must hear before you die, 2005, Cassell illustrated, U.K.; Berlin and Fear reviews exclusive)
- Nico: I don't think I'm wrong, normally I'm not (Star, 1978)
- Lou Reed / John Cale: The good lack all conviction... (Take No Prisioners excerpt, Ruta 66, 1998; Sabotage excerpt, Rock Spezial, 1980)
- Lou Reed: That's the end of rock'n'roll (interview excerpt, Vibraciones, 1980; main text Sal Común, 1980)
- John Cale: I'll try this eleven o'clock flight (Estricnina, 1982)
- Lou Reed: Your average guy, really? (Rock Spezial, 1982)
John Cale / Lou Reed: Music for a new society (Music for a New Society review exclusive; The Bells excerpt, Ruta 66, 1998)
- Maureen Tucker: Housewife rockin' (Ruta 66, 1988)
- John Cale: Your own past coming behind you (Ruta 66, 1988)
- Lou Reed: Two guitars, bass and drums (Ruta 66, 1989)

Part III. "Rediscovered, reformed, disbanded again, dead"
- Andy Warhol: Requiem for a Campbell's soup can (Ruta 66, 1990)
- Maureen Tucker: No unspoken plans, just friends (Ruta 66, 1991)
- The Velvet Underground: The legend dismantled (Ruta 66, 1993)
- Sterling Morrison: So what's with the fourth chord? (Ruta 66, 2001)
- The Velvet Underground: The legend dismantled (Ruta 66, 1993)
- Sterling Morrison: So what's with the fourth chord? (Ruta 66, 2001)
- Lou Reed: Smooth as alabaster, painful as sin (Ruta 66, 2000)
- The Velvet Underground: Abandoned to their fate (Ruta 66, 2001)
- Doug Yule: That's my brother Doug on bass (exclusive)
- Lou Reed: Mindless passion (Ruta 66, 2003)
- John Cale: Living thru a second youth (Ruta 66, 2006)
- Lou Reed: It's like it was written by somebody else (El País, 2006)
- Nico & John Cale: The dead know only one thing... (Ruta 66, 2007)
- Lou Reed: Revisiting a Berlin of the mind (The Rock'n'roll Animal Webpage, 2008)