The Velvet Underground

High above me, the last of the morning stars are winking out sadly. They flash their last bling-silver grains of sand in the dawn sky. I sigh as their bejewelled brilliance fade into nothingness. The afternoon sky has already painted Van Gough’s Starry Night, as orbs of light swirl in the lavender and blue canvas. A ghostly, winter moon hangs there, imitating a pale strobe light. A corona of shimmering yellow rings it 's dying glory. The sky around it is a wide sheet of grate-grey, hemmed in the…

more commonly known to the world, just Brian Eno, can be unbiasedly described as an iconic contemporary British artist. He began his music career with guitarist Anthony Grafton in 1968 in Maxwell Demon, and was influenced by such bands as The Velvet Underground (Independent.co.uk, 1998) his real legacy began in 1971, as a 'technical advisor' playing synthesizer for rock group Roxy Music – lasting just three years and two albums before he announced to the band’s management 'OK Fuck it, I’m…

granted that everyone, or nearly everyone, secretly hated the Party and would break the rules if he thought it safe to do so. But she refused to believe that widespread, organized opposition existed or could exist. The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in. Times beyond number, at Party rallies and spontaneous demonstrations, she had shouted at the top of…