Velvet Underground: VU (Polydor)***.5
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 16 February 1985
CONFUSION REIGNS. The deliberately-leaked rumours of the last few months maintained that Polydor had uncovered 'The Great Lost Velvet Underground Album', a disc that never saw the light of day (as detailed in the book Up-Tight) due to various non-musical turbulence in the lengendary band's career. Bated breath was soon being exhaled derisively all over town by in-the-know fans when it emerged that this just wasn't so...
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