Linger On: The Velvet Underground
New from Ecstatic Peace Library, and featuring an introduction from Thurston Moore, this sumptuous volume features interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, Doug Yule, Nico, and the most in-depth interviews ever granted by Sterling Morrison, as well as never-before-published photographs by James Hamilton.
The author of Linger On is the internationally respected and trusted Velvet Underground chronicler Ignacio Julià, the Barcelona-based editor of Ruta 66 magazine, and author of books in Spanish and English on American post-punk band Sonic Youth. When members of The Velvet Underground toured in Spain, Ignacio Julià was usually among their entourage, front row center at curtain call, backstage after the gig, in attendance at afterparties and sometimes found in the band's hotel rooms until lobby call.
Since 1985, Julià has published countless articles, interviews, intimate profiles, and books in Spanish and English on the Velvet Underground. He is known by fans around the world as the band's most dedicated chronicler and archivist of studio bootlegs, live concert recordings, writings, and poetry, to the extent that even the Velvets' own members refer to his knowledge for fact-checking purposes.