Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground Marcus Greil Even as the duo was

Even as the duo was coming apart

finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand

was in the process of establishing a new vision of photography

It emerged in America in the 1940s

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Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground Marcus Greil Even as the duo wasContemporary pop music, art, fashion, style and the avant garde was never the same after The Velvet Underground. They 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. 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