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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
He was a 19 year old classical phenom who played these excruciatingly difficult pieces with such ease. I think I read somewhere he had a nervous breakdown. I used these as a means of practicing my viola techniques in school, far too complicated but it pushed me into unknown territory for the viola, something I would later use and abuse in my quest for breaking everything around me!
The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg
Half a century after the release of one of the all-time great live albums, John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale. This feature was first published on 2 April 2020
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