“Warhol has so arranged his discotheque that his patrons tend to feel that they have wandered into some evangelist's vision of Nineveh and that perhaps it is time to mend their ways.”

“It seems the Velvets are now back to where they once belonged, functioning as a genuine rock ‘n’ roll dance band ... The result can be positively exhilarating”

In June 1968 Voice reporter Howard Smith was on the scene as Warhol fought for his life. Three months later the pop master told film critic Leticia Kent, ‘I am afraid of God alone.’

Discovering the ‘harrowing chic’ of the the Velvet Underground’s first album

‘The leather jacket and Levi’s and Converse was classic, and they knew that. The only thing they’d change was their T-shirt and the socks.’

On Lou Reed, the downtown bard of the dirty boulevard.