Book Review: The Velvet Underground's story and afterlife told in the oral history 'Loaded'

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “screeching urge of sound” from Lou Reed and his bandmates, a local reviewer wrote, and retreated in horror after their second song, “Heroin.” The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space. Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells that unusual story in “Loaded: The Life of The Velvet Underground.” Or more precisely, Jones weaves together an oral history that relies on the voices of friends, Warhol “superstars,” fellow musicians and members of the band. “Unpack the last 50 years of pop," Jones writes, "and the broken fragments of the Velvet Underground are everywhere.” ___ AP book reviews: https://apnews.com/hub/book-reviews