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Richie \;Unterberger's book \;Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Under ground \;is the definitive work on this great and massively influe ntial group.

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This 800-page volume draws on more than a hundred fir st-hand interviews and recent research at the Lou Reed Archive and Andy Wa rhol Archive.

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Besides reading from and discussing the book\, he'll show some film clips of the band\, as well as play some of their rarest r ecordings.

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 \;"Of all the books I've read on the Velvet Underg round I think this is the best. \;Richie \;Unterberger explores so me of the different personalities of characters who usually go underreport ed in this story. His writing is entertaining and I liked his way of revie wing all the material he reviewed. Yours truly\, Jonathan Richman." (Longt ime alternative rock icon Jonathan Richman saw and interacted with the Vel vet Underground many times as a teenager going to their shows at the Bosto n Tea Party\, and is among the people associated with the Velvet Undergrou nd interviewed for the book)

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Richie \;Unterberger is t he author of numerous rock music history books\, including volumes on the Who\, Bob Marley\, and 1960s folk-rock. His book \;The Unreleased Beat les: Music and Film \;won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collec tions Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. His coff ee table book \;San Francisco: Portrait of a City\, \;published by Taschen in 2022\, presents and describes 500 pages of photos of the city from 1850 to 2020. His latest book\, \;Do What You Fear Most: The Hist ory of the Velvet Underground\, was published by Omnibus Press in spring 2 026. He teaches non-credit adult education courses on rock music history a t several Bay Area colleges\, including the College of Marin and Dominican University.

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