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Saturday, November 8, 2008
The Motorcycle Boy "Run, Run, Run"..a cover of a classic by The Velvet Underground
Posted by kotang at 7:14 AMThe Motorcycle Boy's tribute to an old Velvet Underground song, that was written by band member Lou Reed.
Velvet Underground was managed by Andy Warhol (note the Warhol banana still in the video, the original Velvet Underground album cover).
Pic, Lou Reed and Nico (Christa Päffgen, a German-born model, actress and singer. Nico, when 15, was "raped by a US Air Force sergeant who was tried and shot for his crime" in Berlin, 1953. Nico died in 1988.) Velvet Underground was one of the bands MGM wanted to kick off it's label, for their overt sensationalism of drug use (another was Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention). One of my favorite classic covers of a classic. Both bands, long gone.
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