The two musicians co-founded The Velvet Underground in 1965. By THR Staff John Cale, who co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in 1965, has commented on the death of his bandmate. In a ...

Lou Reed might've been the jaded heart of the Velvet Underground, but John Cale started out as the brain. The Welsh musician ...

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the Velvet ...

Reed’s association with Pickwick gave him the opportunity to hone his songwriting prior to the formation of The Velvet Underground. He created tunes in various musical styles, including girl-group pop ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed ...

Listening today, with decades of distance and a lifetime of music at our fingertips, it’s difficult to imagine the seismic influence of the Velvet Underground and Nico’s self-titled album in 1967.

September 1964. New employee Lou Reed (right) at Pickwick Records’ offices, with fellow company songwriter Jerry Vance (far left), label exec Terry Philips (second from left) and an unknown colleague.