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What Goes On (Velvet Underground song)

This article is about the Velvet Underground song. For the Beatles song, see What Goes On (Beatles song).

"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only single released from their third album, The Velvet Underground (1969).

"What Goes On"
Single by The Velvet Underground
from the album The Velvet Underground
B-side"Jesus"
ReleasedMarch 1969 (1969-03)
RecordedNovember–December 1968
StudioTTG Studios, Hollywood
GenreRock[1]
Length4:55
LabelMGM
Songwriter(s)The Velvet Underground
Producer(s)The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground singles chronology
"White Light/White Heat"
(1968) 		"What Goes On"
(1969) 		"Who Loves The Sun"
(1971)

The song was recorded in 1968 at TTG Studios in Hollywood.

A concert performance of the song, with Doug Yule on keyboards, was included on their double live album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live.[2]

Personnel

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Yule, Morrison (back) and Reed (front) in a magazine advertisement for the single

Other media

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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.[3]

In 1978, aficionados Mike "MC" Kostek and Phil Milstein started the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, which collected, cataloged and made available various rarities.[4] They published a fanzine titled "What Goes On", and later on a newsletter titled "What Goes On Jr."[5]

References

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  1. ^ Deming, Mark. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  2. ^ Unterberger (2009)
  3. ^ "Once in a Lifetime". The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. National Public Radio broadcast. 27 March 2000. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  4. ^ Zak (1997)
  5. ^ Le Velours Souterrain

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