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OH YES!!: there's a documentary on the Velvet Underground coming out on Apple TV!!!!!
Don't expect total art-school anarchy, though; there's still a firm backbone beneath all those shifting aspect ratios and split screens. Underground has the full participation of the group's surviving members John Cale and Maureen "Moe" Tucker, as well as the papers that singer Lou Reed's longtime partner, the artist Laurie Anderson, gathered for the official Reed archives now held at the New York Public Library following his death in 2013.
OH NO!!: it's not out until this summer grrrrrrrrrr
What Haynes hasn't done till now, with the upcoming release of The Velvet Underground (due this summer on Apple TV+)
OOOOOOOH, OKAY!!: it heavily features Jonathan Richman!
"We have Jonathan Richman too, who doesn't do a lot of interviews. He was a teenager in Boston when it really became the band's new residency, this venue in Cambridge, and he became their mascot. He was a kid and he basically drove them around in his station wagon to parties and he went to every single show, he saw them about 60 or 70 times. He met Andy Warhol, he met Nico. He met everybody right at the time, and then they were gone. And he describes this band who were so lovely to him and so open to him. It's not the tough, mean, hardcore Velvet Underground that people picture. And so this artist who is so influential in his own right and so articulate, he plays his guitar during the interview and demonstrates what he's talking about sonically, musically."
My very excited bolding above. Can't wait, motherscratchers!
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