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The Velvet Underground / Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

12" Very Good

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Record Details

Artists: The Velvet Underground / Nico
Title: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Format: 12"Gatefold Reissue
Label: Verve Records
Cat No: V6-5008
Released: 1971
Country:
Genres: Proto-PunkPsych RockGarage rock
Condition Very Good
Status Have
Added To List 22nd January 2016
Disc 1 | 12"
Excellent
Verve Records (blue & silver) 
A Matrix:
V6-5008 SIDE 1 MGS-558 REV 15 2 LT  
B Matrix:
V6-5008 SIDE 2 MGS-559-RE-1 2 1 LT  

Additional Information

Comments Debut album. (1967 -Rei 1971)
Gatefold w/printed banana.
(Water damage. No splits.)
Paper sleeve.

PERSONNEL:
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar, ostrich guitar
Sterling Morrison – guitar, bass b-vocals John Cale – electric viola , bass, b-vocals, celesta, hissing, sound effects
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Nico – chanteuse, b-vocals

Blue/silver T Verve label.

Bold print on labels for "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO" & "STEREO".

Label refers to sides as "Side 1" and "Side 2".

Text around bottom...
"MANUFACTURED BY MGM RECORDS, INC., 7165 SUNSET BOULEVARD, HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 90046".

Song credits...
Lou Reed - John Cale - Sterling Morrison - Maureen Tucker.

"Oakfield Avenue Music Company BMI"

THE FIRST VERSION (the "torso" version) has image of Eric Emerson projected upside-down on the wall over Lou Reed's face on backcover.
THE SECOND VERSION...has a sticker blotting this out.
THE THIRD VERSION...has it airbrushed away.

Ranked #13 on RS list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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