Listen to a 19 minute live recording of The Velvet Underground's “Sister Ray”
05 December 2013, 14:41
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
(News)
The Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat is set to be reissued for its 45th anniversary, with a bonus track from it now streaming online.
Universal Music will re-release the record as a 3-disc boxset come 10 December. It’ll include remastered audio, bonus tracks and previously unreleased material, compiled by the late Lou Reed and bandmate John Cale.
Before it does surface, check out a 19 minute-strong live version of track “Sister Ray”, recorded at the Gymnasium in New York on 30 April 1967.
Read our review of the reissue here.
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