THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: UNPEELED

Book ID/图书代码： 07861210B39033

English Summary/英文概要： Perhaps no other band can claim such scant chart success and so enduring a musical legacy as The Velvet Underground. Artists including David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Nirvana, U2, R.E.M. and dissident Czech playwright and eventual president, Vaclav Havel have all cited the Velvets as a major influence. Yet only two of their albums even scraped Billboard’s Top 200. Formed by the mercurial Lou Reed and classically-trained Welshman John Cale, the band first achieved notoriety after being adopted by Andy Warhol, who set himself up as manager and producer and included the Velvets in his Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia roadshow. However, much more than a pop art support act, the freedom Warhol’s patronage brought enabled the group to chart hitherto unexplored regions of the rock n’ roll soundscape, producing unforgettable and unsettling music that veered from droning, avant-garde experimentalism to folk-infused pop, taking in taboo-busting tales of drug addiction, prostitution and sexual deviance along the way. Creative tensions and frustrated ambition eventually saw both Cale and Reed leave the band, with Doug Yule taking over on lead vocals before an entirely unoriginal lineup came to an ignominious end in Europe. But in the decades since and several abortive reunions later The Velvet Underground’s music has attained classic status, revered alongside The Beatles and The Beach Boys as one of the well-springs of modern pop. Now Rob Jovanovic peels back the mystique to tell the story of one of the most important bands in rock history

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 恐怕唯有地下丝绒乐团在打榜表现拙劣同时却留下了日久弥新的音乐遗产。包括戴维•鲍伊、“性手枪”、“快乐分享”、“乐仕”、“涅磐”、U2和R.E.M.在内的艺术家，捷克的反对派作家后来的总统维克拉夫•哈维尔都曾表述深受地下丝绒的影响。但该乐团只有两张专辑勉强进入过主榜单的前200强。由反复无常的路•瑞德和受过古典乐训练的威尔士男子约翰•凯尔组成，乐团在被安迪•沃霍尔发掘，成为其经纪人和制作人，并把它加入到自己的“塑胶性之必然”乐队多媒体路演中后才声明广播。但是，地下丝绒不仅仅是流行乐的助兴表演，沃霍尔给了他们自由的空间，令他们得以到达摇滚乐不曾开拓的声乐新疆界，创作出难忘的搅人心绪的音乐。他们的音乐低沉，结合了先锋派的实验精神和民谣流行，唱词纳入了许多禁忌――毒瘾、召妓和异常性行为。最终，创作压力和雄心受挫致使凯尔和瑞德都离开了乐团，留下道格•耶尔接替成为主唱，毫无新意的阵容在欧洲惨淡收场。但几十年后，伴随着几次胎死腹中的重组复出，地下丝绒的音乐已成就了经典的地位，像“披头士”、“海滩男孩”一样作为现代流行乐的鼻祖之一被顶礼膜拜。今天，罗伯•约凡纳维克剥去其神秘面纱，讲述摇滚史上重要乐团的故事。(兼职翻译-SXX)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯•约凡纳维克叙写音乐有关的作品已经十年多了，他的贡献包括有《魔力》、《Q》、《水平》、《唱片收集者》和《未删剪》。他之前的作品已涉及多位独特的艺人，包括凯特•布什、“溪流”、R.E.M.、“人行道”、“涅磐”、乔治•迈可和“大明星”。

Rob Jovanovic has written about music for over a decade, contributing to amongst others Mojo, Q, Level, Record Collector and Uncut. His previous books have covered artists as diverse and unique as Kate Bush, Beck, R.E.M., Pavement, Nirvana, George Michael and Big Star.

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