John Cale

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music. John Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London before moving in 1963 to New York City, where he performed as part of the drone collective the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Since leaving the band in 1968, Cale has released seventeen solo studio albums, including Paris 1919 (1973) which is retrospectively considered to be his masterpiece, Fear (1974), Slow Dazzle (1975) and Music for a New Society (1982). In 1990, he collaborated with Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed on Songs for Drella which was a tribute for their mentor Andy Warhol. Cale has worked as a record producer on studio albums by artists including Nico, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Squeeze, Happy Mondays and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Cale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996.

MiXology (volume 1) - 2025-05-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Paris 1919 (Deluxe Edition) - 2024-11-15T00:00:00.000000Z

POPtical Illusion - 2024-06-14T00:00:00.000000Z

MERCY - 2023-01-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Fragments Of A Rainy Season - 2016-12-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Music For a New Society/M:FANS - 2016-01-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood - 2012-10-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Extra Playful: EP Commentary - 2011-10-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Extra Playful - 2011-09-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Live At Rockpalast (Live at Zeche Bochum 06.03.1983 & at Grugahalle Essen 13./14.10.1984) - 2010-04-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Circus Live - 2006-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Black Acetate - 2005-07-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Hobosapiens - 2003-10-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Eat / Kiss: Music For The Films By Andy Warhol - 1997-06-10T00:00:00.000000Z

The Island Years - 1996-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Last Day On Earth - 1994-04-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Words For The Dying - 1992-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Songs For Drella - 1990-04-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Wrong Way Up - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Wrong Way Up [Expanded Edition] - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Artificial Intelligence - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Honi Soit - 1981-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Fear - 1974-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

June 1, 1974 (Live At The Rainbow Theatre / 1974) - 1974-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Academy in Peril - 1972-07-19T00:00:00.000000Z

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