Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story (31 page)

BRIGID POLK
has been reincarnated as Brigid Berlin. A documentary on her life by Vincent and Shelley Freemont was recently released.

LOU REED
has recently collaborated with Robert Wilson and Edgar Allan Poe on a successful musical. Since getting divorced he has maintained the longest relationship of his life with Laurie Anderson.

JONATHAN RICHMOND
continues to astonish his fans every time he plays in concert.

ROBBIE ROBERTSON
is working in movies and continues to make great music.

CHARLIE ROTHCHILD
works as a booking agent. He lives in New York City.

BARBARA RUBIN
died after giving birth to her fourth child in France in 1978.

MICKEY RUSKIN
died in his sleep in New York City, May 16, 1983.

ED SANDERS
has published many books, among them the best seller
The Family
about Charles Manson. He is currently the Mayor of Woodstock.

DELMORE SCHWARTZ
died from alcohol poisoning in New York City in 1966.

EDIE SEDGWICK
died from barbiturate poisoning in Santa Barbara in 1971.

STEVE SESNICK
lives in Boston.

STEPHEN SHORE
is head of the Photography Department at Bard College, Annandalde-on-Hudson, N.Y.

CHRIS STEIN
is a songwriter, musician and photographer. He continues to work with Debbie Harry in Blondie and on solo projects.

INGRID SUPERSTAR
went out for a pack of cigarettes one day and, like the character in a Raymond Chandler novel, never returned; no, she
never
returned.

LYNN TILLMAN
is a major novelist of the angst-ridden humour of New York.

MAUREEN TUCKER
tours the world in the Maureen Tucker Band. Her influence on drummers everywhere is inescapable.

ANDY WARHOL
was murdered in a NY hospital. He was a genius and a Saint and a sharp man. Without him, no Velvet Underground as we know it.

CHUCK WEIN
continues to meditate on film scripts.

NAT WEISS
continues to be a lawyer.

JOHN WILCOCK
continues to explore the world of art and culture through various small newspapers and cable-TV shows in New York City.

DANNY WILLIAMS
committed suicide in Cape Cod in 1967.

TOM WILSON
died in Los Angeles in 1978.

MARY WORONOV
is an actress. She starred in
Rock & Roll High School
and
Eating Raoul
. In the Nineties she wrote three excellent books, including a memoir of the Warhol Factory. She lives in Los Angeles.

LA MONTE YOUNG
is an avant-garde American composer. He lives in New York City.

BILLY YULE
lives in California “doing virtually nothing” in the words of his brother Doug.

DOUG YULE
has his own business in New Hampshire making cabinets and other furniture. He occasionally fools around jamming with friends. He played on Lou Reed’s solo album
Sally Can’t Dance
.

FRANK ZAPPA
, decent, humane and a genius, carried on his work until his death from cancer in 1993. Even Lou really dug him though he would never admit it.

Loop
December 1966
(Seven minute one-sided 7″ flexidisc, included in
Aspen
magazine, No. 3, New York)

Untitled
(7″ flexidisc included in
Andy Warhol’s Index Book
as a picture disc with portrait of Lou Reed on one side. Features the Velvets discussing the book while their first LP plays in the background.)

All Tomorrow’s Parties/I’ll Be Your Mirror
Verve 10427 October 1966
(Promo copies exist in picture sleeve; it is uncertain whether this single was ever issued commercially)

Sunday Morning/Femme Fatale
Verve 10466 December 1966

White Light White Heat/Here She Comes Now
Verve 10560 March 1968
(Promo copies exist; probably not issued commercially)

Here She Comes Now/I Heard Her Call My Name
Verve 10560 March 1968
(Promo copies exist; probably not issued commercially)

What Goes On Now/Jesus
MGM 14057 1969

Who Loves The Sun/Oh Sweet Nuthin’
Cotillion 44107 1970

Who Loves The Sun/Sweet Jane
Atlantic 2091 088 April 1971

Candy Says/I’m Waiting For The Man/Run Run Run
MGM 2006 283 June 1973

Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll
Atlantic K 10339 August 1973

White Light White Heat/Heroin/Venus In Furs/I’m Waiting For The Man
Polydor POSPX 398 (12″) 1981

Heroin/Venus In Furs/I’m Waiting For The Man/Run Run
Run
Polydor POSPX 603 (12″) October 1982

I’m Waiting For The Man/Heroin
Old Gold OG 4049 (12″) March 1988

Venus In Furs/All Tomorrow’s Parties
Old Gold OG 4051 (12″) March 1988
(All Tomorrow’s Parties is an alternate mix, also available on the CD release on the Velvet’s début album)

Venus In Furs (live)/I’m Waiting For The Man (live)
Warner Bros W 0224 (7″) February 1994

Venus In Furs (live)/I’m Waiting For The Man (live)
Warner Bros W 0224C (cassette) February 1994

Venus In Furs (live edit)/Sweet Jane (live)/Heroin (live)/ I’m Waiting For The Man (live)
Warner Bros W 0224CD (CD) February 1994

The East Village Other Electric Newspaper
ESP Disk 1034 1966
(One track contains a Velvets backing track with a TV interview with Lucy Byrd Johnson on her wedding day superimposed over it)

The Velvet Underground And Nico
Sunday Morning/I’m Waiting For The Man/Femme Fatale/ Venus In Furs/Run Run Run/All Tomorrow’s Parties/ Heroin/There She Goes Again/I’ll Be Your Mirror/The Black Angel’s Death Song/European Son
Verve 5008 March 1967

White Light/White Heat
White Light White Heat/The Gift/Lady Godiva’s Operation/Here She Comes Now/I Heard Her Call My Name/ Sister Ray
Verve December 1967

The Velvet Underground
Candy Says/What Goes On/Some Kinda Love/Pale Blue Eyes/Jesus/Beginning To See The Light/I’m Set Free/ That’s The Story Of My Life/The Murder Mystery/ Afterhours
MGM SE 4617 March 1969

Loaded
Who Loves the Sun/Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll/Cool It Down/New Age/Head Held High/Lonesome Cowboy Bill/I Found A Reason/Train Round The Bend/Oh Sweet Nuthin’
Cotillion 9034 September 1970

Live At Max’s Kansas City
I’m Waiting For The Man/Sweet Jane/Lonesome Cowboy Bill/Beginning To See The Light/I’ll Be Your Mirror/Pale Blue Eyes/Sunday Morning/Femme Fatale/Afterhours
Cotillion SD 9500 May 1972
(Recorded at Max’s on August 22, 1970, by Brigid Polk on a Sony cassette machine)

Velvet Underground
Candy Says/Sunday Morning/Femme Fatale/White Light White Heat/Heroin/Beginning To See The Light/Here She Comes Now/Afterhours
MGM GAS 131 1972

Squeeze
Polydor 2383 180 February 1973
(A Doug Yule solo project credited erroneously to the Velvets)

Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground
That’s The Story Of My Life/Sister Ray/Lady Godiva’s Operation/Heroin/Sunday Morning/All Tomorrow’s Parties/There She Goes Again/White Light White Heat/Femme
Fatale
Pride PRD 0022 1973

Live 1969
I’m Waiting For The Man/Lisa Says/What Goes On/Sweet Jane/We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together/Femme
Fatale/New Age/Rock & Roll/Beginning To See The Light/Ocean/Pale Blue Eyes/Heroin/Some Kinda Love/Over You/Sweet Bonnie Brown/It’s Just Too Much/ White Light White Heat/I’ll Be Your Mirror
Mercury SRM 2-7504 (double LP) April 1974

VU
I Can’t Stand It/Stephanie Says/She’s My Best Friend/ Lisa Says/Ocean/Foggy Notion/Inside Your Heart/One Of These Days/I’m Sticking With You
Polygram 823 299 February 1985

Another VU
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together/I’m Gonna Move Right In/Hey Mr Rain (Version 1)/Ride Into The Sun/Coney Island Steeplechase/Guess I’m Falling In Love (Instrumental Version)/Hey Mr Rain (Version 2)/ Ferryboat Bill/Rock & Roll (Original Version)
Polygram 829 405-1 1986

The Best Of The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting For The Man/Femme Fatale/Run Run Run/ Heroin/All Tomorrow’s Parties/I’ll Be Your Mirror/White Light White Heat/Stephanie Says/What Goes On/Beginning To See The Light/Pale Blue Eyes/I Can’t Stand It/Lisa Says/Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll Polygram 841 164 1989

LIVE MCMXCIII (2 CD Set)
Disc 1: We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together/ Venus In Furs/Guess I’m Falling In Love/Afterhours/All Tomorrow’s Parties/Some Kinda Love/I’ll Be Your Mirror/ Beginning To See The Light/The Gift/I Hear Her Call My Name/Femme Fatale
Disc 2: Hey Mr Rain/Sweet Jane/Velvet Nursery Rhyme/White Light White Heat/I’m Sticking With You/The Black
Angel’s Death Song/Rock & Roll/I Can’t Stand It/I’m Waiting For The Man/Heroin/Pale Blue Eyes/Coyote
Warner Bros 9362-45464-2 October 1993

LIVE MCMXCIII (Single CD)
Venus In Furs/Sweet Jane/Afterhours/All Tomorrow’s Parties/ Some Kinda Love/The Gift/Rock & Roll/I’m Waiting For The Man/Heroin/Pale Blue Eyes
Warner Bros 9632-45465-2 October 1993

PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE (5 CD box set)
Disc 1: Venus In Furs (demo)/Prominent Man (demo)/ Heroin (demo)/I’m Waiting For The Man (demo)/Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (demo)/All Tomorrow’s Parties (demo)
Disc 2: All Tomorrow’s Parties (single version)/Sunday Morning/I’m Waiting For The Man/Femme Fatale/Venus In Furs/Run Run Run/All Tomorrow’s Parties/Heroin/ There She Goes Again/I’ll Be Your Mirror/The Black Angel’s Death Song/European Son/Melody Laughter (live)/ It Was A Pleasure Then/Chelsea Girls
Disc 3: There Is No Reason (demo)/Sheltered Life (demo)/It’s All Right (The Way That You Live) (demo)/I’m Not Sorry (Now That You’ve Gone) (demo)/Here She Comes Now (demo)/Guess I’m Falling In Love (live)/Booker T/ White Light White Heat/The Gift/Lady Godiva’s Operation/ Here She Comes Now/I Heard Her Call My Name/Sister Ray/Stephanie Says/Temptation Inside Your Heart/Hey Mr Rain (Version 1)
Disc 4: What Goes On (live)/Candy Says/What Goes On/ Some Kinda Love/Pale Blue Eyes/Jesus/Beginning To See The Light/I’m Set Free/That’s The Story Of My Life/The Murder Mystery/After Hours/Foggy Notion/I Can’t Stand It/I’m Sticking With You/One Of These Days/Lisa Says/ It’s Just Too Much/Countess From Hong Kong
Disc 5: Who Loves The Sun/Sweet Jane (full version)/Rock
& Roll/Cool It Down/New Age (full version)/Head Held High/Lonesome Cowboy Bill/I Found A Reason/Train Round The Bend/Oh Sweet Nuthin’/Satellite Of Love/Walk And Talk/Oh Gin/Sad Song/Ocean/Ride Into The Sun/Some Kinda Love (live)/I’ll Be Your Mirror (live)/I Love You
Polydor 31452 7887-2 1995

LOADED (FULLY LOADED EDITION) (2 CD set)
Disc 1: Who Loves The Sun/Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll/ Cool It Down/New Age/Head Held High/Lonesome Cowboy Bill/I Found A Reason/Train Round The Bend/ Oh Sweet Nuthin’/Ride Into The Sun/Ocean/I’m Sticking With You/I Love You/Rock & Roll/Head Held High
Disc 2: Who Loves The Sun (alternate mix)/Sweet Jane (early version)/Rock & Roll (demo)/Cool It Down (early version)/New Age (full version)/Head Held High (early version)/Lonesome Cowboy Bill (early version)/I Found A Reason (demo)/Train Round The Bend (alternate mix)/ Oh Sweet Nuthin’ (early version)/Ocean (demo)/I Love You (out-take)/Satellite Of Love (alternate demo)/Oh Gin (demo)/Walk And Talk (demo)/Sad Song(demo)/Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall (demo)
Rhino/Atlantic R2 72563 February 1997

THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION (Single CD)
I’m Waiting For The Man/Run Run Run/Heroin/White Light White Heat/Sister Ray/Beginning To See The Light/What Goes On/Pale Blue Eyes/I Can’t Stand It/Sweet Jane (live)/Rock & Roll (live)
Universal 314-549133-2 October 2000

THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 1: THE QUINE TAPES
Disc 1: I’m Waiting For The Man/It’s Just Too Much/ What Goes On/I Can’t Stand It/Some Kinda Love/ Foggy Notion/Femme Fatale/After Hours/I’m Sticking
With You/Sunday Morning/Sister Ray
Disc 2: Follow The Leader/White Light White Heat/Venus In Furs/Heroin/Sister Ray
Disc 3: Rock & Roll/New Age/Over You/The Black Angel’s Death Song/I’m Waiting For The Man/Ride Into The Sun/Sister Ray/Foggy Notion
Polydor 314-589-067-2 November 2001

Track listings as US albums unless otherwise stated

The Velvet Underground And Nico
Verve SVLP 9184 October 1967

White Light/White Heat
Verve SVLP 9201 June 1968

The Velvet Underground
MGM C 8108 April 1969

Loaded
Atlantic 2400 111 March 1971

Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground Featuring Nico
I’m Waiting For The Man/Candy Says/Run Run Run/ White Light White Heat/All Tomorrow’s Parties/Sunday Morning/I Heard Her Call My Name/Femme Fatale/ Heroin/Here She Comes Now/There She Goes Again/ Sister Ray/Venus In Furs/European Son/Pale Blue Eyes/ The Black Angel’s Death Song/Beginning To See The Light MGM 2683 006 December 1971

Live At Max’s Kansas City
Atlantic K 30022 August 1972

Squeeze
Polydor 2383 180 February 1973

Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting For The Man/Sister Ray/Lady Godiva’s Operation/Who Loves The Sun/All Tomorrow’s Parties/ There She Goes Again/White Light White Heat/Femme
Fatale
MGM 2315 256 October 1973

The Velvet Underground
White Light White Heat/What Goes On/Venus In Furs/ That’s The Story Of My Life/Here She Comes Now/Beginning To See The Light/Jesus/Run Run Run/Some Kinda Love/The Gift/I’m Set Free/I Heard Her Call My Name
MGM 2354 1976

Live 1969
Mercury 6641 900 February 1979

VU
Polydor POLD 5167 March 1985

The Velvet Underground Box Set
Polydor VUBOX1 1986

Another VU
Polydor POLD 5028 February 1987

The Best Of The Velvet Underground
Polydor 841 164-1 1989

Live MCMXCIII (2 CD Set)
Warner Bros 9362-45464-2 October 1993

Live MCMXCIII (Single CD)
Warner Bros 9632-45465-2 October 1993

PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE (5 CD box set)
Polydor 314-527-887-2 1995

LOADED (FULLY LOADED EDITION) (2 CD set)
Rhino/Atlantic R2 72563 1997

UNIVERSAL MASTERS COLLECTION
Same tracks as The Millennium Collection US CD
Polydor 549 318-2 January 2001