After his departure, Yule became the new frontman of The Velvet Underground and toured together with Willie Alexander ( keyboard), Walter Powers ( bass guitar), Maureen Tucker ( drums) and other musicians. It was the last album featuring Lou Reed, the last remaining founder of VU. Although the songs were successful and popular in several music radios, neither singles, nor the album itself peaked in any music chart. Compared with VU first releases, Loaded was produced for the mainstream, without thematizing sex and drugs. One year later, Loaded was released by Atlantic Records, the first time by a major label. However, when reissued in 1985 it peaked at number 197 in the Billboard chart. It did not chart upon its original release. In March 1969 they released the third studio album The Velvet Underground, their first project with Cale's replacement Doug Yule. The album was produced without Warhol and Nico for the first time. The album was more experimental than their first album, featuring a loud and aggressive musical style. VU released their second studio album White Light/White Heat, which peaked at number 199 of the Billboard charts. The album, produced by artist Andy Warhol, recharted in 2013 peaking at number 129. The album charted in the United States and originally peaked at number 171 on the Billboard album charts and produced two singles, ' All Tomorrow's Parties' and ' Sunday Morning', which did not chart anywhere.

On Mathey released their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico featuring German singer Nico. The first line-up was formed in New York City consisting of Lou Reed on vocals and guitar, John Cale on several instruments (viola, keyboards and bass), Sterling Morrison on guitar and bass and Angus MacLise on percussion (replaced by Maureen Tucker in November 1965). It’s nothing at all”).The discography of the American rock band the Velvet Underground consists of five studio albums, six live albums, 14 compilation albums, six box sets and eleven singles. A song of regret and, maybe, of a new dawn that would represent forgiveness (“always some around you who will call. This can bring another meaning to the song. Not to sound grim or anything… just, once in a while, you have one of those days.” The band made a live version of the song for their last concert with Lou, on the album Live at Max’s Kansas City, where Reed introduces the song with: “This is a song about when you’ve done something so sad and you wake up the next day and you remember it. However, it grew in popularity through radio play by DJs like John Peel and Dick Summer, sowing the seeds for the Velvets' cult following. MGM/Verve spent little, if any effort to promote it and it sunk, unnoticed, on release. The most polished song on the album, “Sunday Morning” was released as a single in December 1966. He had a guitar which Lou picked up and the evening inspired him to write the song. Unfortunately, this guy’s upper-middle-class wife didn’t appreciate visits from old college pals high on amphetamines, at 3am, who wanted to play music. Lou and I had been up all night on crank, as usual, so we decided to visit one of his old Syracuse college pals. As Cale remembered in a 2006 interview with Uncut: Aptly, Reed & Cale wrote the song after one of those nights at 6 AM on a Sunday morning. The song describes the feeling of staying up all Saturday night into Sunday morning. “Sunday Morning” is the opening song to The Velvet Underground’s debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico.

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