White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day is by far the most comprehensive book on the Velvet Underground ever published. The 368-page, 8 1/2" X 11"-sized book covers the group's recording sessions, record releases, concerts, press reviews, and other major events shaping their career with both thorough detail and critical insight. Drawing on about 100 interviews and exhaustive research through documents and recordings rarely or never accessed, it unearths stories that have seldom been told, and eyewitness accounts that have seldom seen print, from figures ranging from band members to managers, producers, record executives, journalists, concert promoters, and fans. Also included are numerous rare photos and Velvet Underground memorabilia. The July issue of MOJO magazine hails it as "an impressive means to reflect on the conundrum of what could be the ultimate cult band...detailed and anecdote-packed"; Uncut magazine chose it as #4 in its list of the ten best music books of 2009.

• Read excerpts from the book White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
• About White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
  
• List of musicians, producers, managers, promoters, journalists, and others interviewed for White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
• What Really Goes On: 22 Myths and Legends about the Velvet Underground that White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day investigates, explodes, and clarifies
• Unsung Heroes of Velvet Underground-dom: Behind-the-scenes figures who played important and overlooked roles in the Velvet Underground story
  
• Second Degrees of VU Separation: The surprisingly long list of famous musicians and celebrities whose lives and careers intersected with the Velvet Underground
• Beginning to See the Light: The Ten Best Unreleased Velvet Underground Recordings (all discussed at length in White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day By Day)
• The Twelve Strangest Velvet Underground Concerts Ever Given
  
• Author's introduction to White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
  
• A general overview of the Velvet Underground: The All Music Guide on-line biography (written by the author)
• Quotes from reviews of White Light/White Heat
  

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