says in “The Velvet Underground,” a new documentary directed by Todd Haynes that drops on Apple TV+ and plays in theaters Friday. “They had this off-putting aura.
They were scary.”Barbara Rubin, a druggy teenager from Queens who happened to have Warhol’s ear, was enchanted. She told Warhol in 1965 that he needed to see the Velvet Underground.
The group was invited for an ostensible audition at Warhol’s Factory. Billy Name, a photographer there, recalls in the doc how it went: “They were all dressed in black, they started playing ‘Heroin,’ we were bowled over.”In short order, Warhol became the group’s manager.
But his relationship with the band ultimately angered Reed despite Warhol getting them cool gigs, publicity and a record deal.
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