Very few musical ensembles altered the pop-culture landscape in the slow-burning but ultimately all-consuming way that the Velvet Underground did: Brian Eno once famously claimed that although the band sold only 30,000 records in the first five years of its short tenure, “everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band". This week, the New York alternative rock pioneers' debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, turns 50, and to celebrate, the…
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