His filmmaking was personified by the Velvets.” He called the band’s music rude and crude … like his films. “He gave them legitimacy and visual impact. “Andy made the band visible in every conceivable way,” Haynes told The Post. Warhol’s impact on the band was large and immediate. “Every day Andy ahead of me, and he would ask how many songs I wrote that day,” Reed says in the documentary.

Warhol had an incredible work ethic and flaunted it to a miffed Reed. But his relationship with the band ultimately angered Reed despite Warhol getting them cool gigs, publicity and a record deal. In short order, Warhol became the group’s manager. Billy Name, a photographer there, recalls in the doc how it went: “They were all dressed in black, they started playing ‘Heroin,’ we were bowled over.” Andy Warhol (left) with Lou Reed at Studio 54 in 1977, a decade after the Velvet Underground’s debut album was released and Reed’s firing of Warhol. The group was invited for an ostensible audition at Warhol’s Factory. She told Warhol in 1965 that he needed to see the Velvet Underground. They were scary.”īarbara Rubin, a druggy teenager from Queens who happened to have Warhol’s ear, was enchanted. “Some of the played with their backs to the crowd,” Martha Morrison, wife of guitarist Sterling Morrison, says in “The Velvet Underground,” a new documentary directed by Todd Haynes that drops on Apple TV+ and plays in theaters Friday. How the Velvet Underground became a cultural juggernautīefore the Velvet Underground landed under the wing of Andy Warhol, its members were misfits who gigged in West Village tourist dives, alienated audiences and got fired for being too abrasive. Long-lost Lou Reed songs from Andy Warhol era discovered ‘The Velvet Underground’ doc trailer offers homage to ‘filthy’ NYC Lou Reed’s surprising archives: sex store receipts and football snapshots

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