Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story

The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators, Up-Tight is the definitive oral and visual history of the band and its revolutionary, often avant-garde music. Bockris and Malanga's intelligent and entertaining approach-which does not shy away from the drugs, sleaze, and controversy that enveloped the band seemingly from its inception-provides compulsive reading.

• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
• White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground day-by-day (Genuine Jawbone Books)
• Lou Reed: A Life
• Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed
• Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series)
• Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)