ROCK AND ROLL

Created on 28/08/2002
Latest update on 07/04/2025

Artist: Velvet Underground
Author: Lou Reed
Label: Polydor
Year: 1969

First recorded June 19th 1969. Came out on LP Another View. The demo mentioned on the Fully Loaded Edition of LP Loaded (Rhino) was recorded on April 15th 1970 (Atlantic).

Covers:

1970:

Detroit [with Mitch Ryder and Steve Hunter and Bob Ezrin producing; Lou Reed was very impressed and engaged Ezrin (and Hunter) for Transformer's follow-up album (see: Berlin)]

1970:

Velvet Underground [on LP Loaded]

1972:

Chinook

1974:

Lou Reed [with Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on Rock N Roll Animal]

1976:

Runaways [with Joan Jett]

1979:

Mitch Ryder [live at Rockpalast]

1987:

Jane's Addiction

2014:

Hollis Brown

2018:

Feelies

2021:

Alice Cooper [inspired by Mitch Ryder's (Detroit) version]

2023:

Black Crowes [on Shake Your Moneymaker Live]

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