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"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only
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Le Velours Souterrain
Velvet Underground fanzines * Unterberger, Richie. ''White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day By Day ''; Jawbone Press; June 1, 2009; * Zak, Alban.''The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary''; Schirmer Trade Books; November 1, 1997;
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released from their 1969 eponymous third album.
The song was recorded in 1968 at T.T.G. Studios in Hollywood
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A concert performance of the song, with Doug Yule on keyboards, was included on their double live album
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'' 1969: The Velvet Underground Live''.
Personnel
* Lou Reed
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– lead vocals, multi-tracked electric & acoustic guitars (including solo)
* Doug Yule – bass, Vox Continental organ, backing vocals
* Sterling Morrison – multi-tracked electric guitars (including solo)
* Maureen Tucker – drums
Cover versions
The Doctors of Madness used to play this song live in 1977–1978. Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry performed "What Goes On" (with elements of "Beginning to See the Light") on his 1978 solo album '' The Bride Stripped Bare''. The "What Goes On" organ riff was used in the Talking Heads song " Once in a Lifetime," featured on their 1980 album '' Remain in Light''. It was also recorded by the Feelies on their 1988 album '' Only Life'', Elizabeth Mitchell on her 2006 album '' You Are My Little Bird'',The Screaming Trees
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on the 2009 compilation album ''Unpiecing the Jigsaw - A Tribute to The Velvet Underground'' and the Dils on numerous live albums.
Jim Kerr recorded it as the B-side
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to "Shadowland" in 2010, and later included it on the B-side to a 7" single included with the special edition of the ''Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr
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'' CD.
Toy performed "What Goes On" for a Radio 6 Music
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session in 2012 and featured it on their ''Make It Mine'' EP released later that year.
Fanzine
In 1978, aficionados Mike "MC" Kostek and Phil Milstein started the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, which collected, cataloged and made available various rarities.Zak (1997) They also published a fanzine titled "What Goes On", and later on anewsletter
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titled "What Goes On Jr."Le Velours Souterrain
References
Further reading
Le Velours Souterrain
Velvet Underground fanzines * Unterberger, Richie. ''White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day By Day ''; Jawbone Press; June 1, 2009; * Zak, Alban.''The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary''; Schirmer Trade Books; November 1, 1997;
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