Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground

ISBN: 1913172996

Author: Unterberger, Richie

Condition: New

This is the definitive history of the Velvet Underground, complete and more fully researched than any beforeDo What You Fear Most is the authoritative tome on the band that changed music, fashion and culture forever.Blending new archival insights and first-hand accounts, Richie Unterberger illuminates the bands radical global impact on New Yorks progenitors of punk, who bridged pure rocknroll, avant-garde experimentation and literary songwriting to take rock music into previously uncharted territory. Beginning with each members path to the band, it details their influences, successes and (many) failures, the whirlwind with Warhol, the triumph of the Banana album, the fractured and strained relationships and egos, and beyond to the end of the Velvets and the beginnings of various solo careers.Rigorously researched and packed with previously undocumented insights, this book features first-hand interviews with the groups associates, as well as a substantial amount of material newly unearthed from the Lou Reed Archive and the Andy Warhol Archive, as well as never-before-seen images and ephemera.An entertaining and exhilarating narrative, Do What You Fear Most vividly captures the grit and uninhibited creativity of the 1960s New York cultural scene and is an essential portrait of one of the 20th centurys most visionary and influential bands.