The peelable originals are now a collectors piece, selling for around $500 (USD) a piece. Warhol+VelvetUnderground&NicoExploding Plastic Inevitable: Filmed live by Ronald Nameth Immersive. This gatefold sleeve only lasted a short amount of time before they changed it to a non-peelable banana to increase the profit margin. Andy Warhol managed the Velvet Underground and it was the house band at his studio, the Factory, and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable events.
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Someone employed by Verve (the record company) had piles of albums, and was made to peel of the yellow banana skin stickers and place them over the pink fruit. Lou Reed (lead guitarist and singer for the band) told Rolling Stone “The banana actually made it into an erotic art show”. Apart from Warhol’s name, the only other type on the cover were the suggestive words “PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE”, printed next to an arrow pointing towards the top of the banana. The banana shown on the front was a sticker, that you would peel off to reveal a pink flesh-coloured fruit. He then made a photo-silk screen and printed several copies. To create the image of the banana, Warhol took a photo of a banana and transferred it on to acetate before pulling out any unwanted colours.
They also thought it would portray the idea that the music itself was a form of art rather than just pop music. On March 12 of 1967, The Velvet Underground & Nico Produced By Andy Warhol (as it was presented upon release) was finally in the stores and featured what are.
Warhol’s name was used by the band to get them noticed as it was their debut album and nobody had heard of them. Warhol was said to “have the uncanny knack of taking cheap ephemera, cheap ideas and cheap packaging, and turning them into expensive packaging”. The cover of The Velvet Underground’s first album is thought to be an obvious reference to male genitalia.
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