The Velvet Underground: Max's Kansas City, NYC
Mike Jahn, New York Times, 4 July 1970
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND was playing experimental rock in 1965 when the Beatles just wanted hold your hand and San Francisco was still the place where Tony Bennett left his heart.
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