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Dylan Jones

Loaded

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Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent groun...
Dylan Jones

Faster Than A Cannonball 1995 and All That

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Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when...
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Sweet Dreams : From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics

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Loaded : The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Dylan Jones

Loaded : The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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    Released: 3rd Aug 2023

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A book as packed with wild celebrity gossip, sex, drugs, and rock n roll as you might dare imagine.

‘Loaded’ is a fitting oral history whose contradictions, conspiracies, and revealed secrets are testament to the mythos that still swirls around one of the greatest bands ever to dare exist.

"Essential for Velvet diehards, but also of interest to those longing for the pre-Disneyfied New York City.” - Kirkus Reviews

Contemporary pop music, art, fashion, style and the avant-garde was never the same after The Velvet Underground. Dylan Jones' definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever into the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground zero.Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang, around a psychedelic rock and roll band - a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol's Factory - The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up; they never smiled in photographs, wore sunglasses indoors, and in the process invented the archetype that would be copied by everyone from Sid Vicious to Bobby Gillespie.

They were avant-garde nihilists, writing about drug abuse, prostitution, paranoia, and sado-masochistic sex at a time when the rest of the world was singing about peace and love. In that sense they invented punk. It could even be argued they invented modern New York. And then some. Drawing on interviews and material relating to all major players from Lou Reed, John C ale, Mo Tucker, Andy Warhol, Jon Savage, Nico, David Bowie, Mary Harron and many more, award-winning journalist Dylan Jones breaks down the band's whirlwind of subversion and, in a narrative rich in drama and detail, with an irresistible narrative pull, proves why The Velvets remain the original kings and queens of edge.