John Cale
Rock guitarist and classical violist John Cale participated in one of Warhol's big experiments, The Velvet Underground. Warhol took the difficult, obscure band mates and made them stars. After the Velvets' breakup, Cale became an underground rock hero with records like Fear and Paris 1919. Cale's latest album is Black Acetate.
John Cale appears in the following:
Cale on Warhol
Friday, August 07, 2009
Andy Warhol did more than turn groceries into art - he also elevated an obscure band called The Velvet Underground to the rock pantheon. Band co-founder John Cale tells Kurt that Warhol didn't do it for the love of rock & roll. "I don't think he ...
"Style It Takes"
Friday, August 07, 2009
Cale performs a song from Songs For Drella, the album he wrote with Lou Reed as a tribute to Warhol.
Style It Takes
Friday, June 02, 2006
Back in 1990, John Cale and Lou Reed, his bandmate from the Velvet Underground, wrote a song cycle about Andy Warhol, called Songs for Drella. John performs one for us in the studio.
Cale on Warhol
Friday, June 02, 2006
John Cale tells Kurt about what it was like to work with the Pop art superstar in the 1960s.
Warhol, Bernal, Darwin
Friday, June 02, 2006
Andy Warhol was the superstar who coined the phrase “superstar,” and changed our culture forever. Kurt Andersen and music pioneer John Cale talk about the lasting legacy of the Pop art legend. They'll discuss Warhol's influence on art, album covers, and a celebrity-obsessed culture he helped create. And Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal defends accusations that he's the cinema's biggest heartthrob.
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