11 Great Songs (Plus Three Terrible Ones) Not Sung by the Band’s Lead Singer
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“After Hours” by the Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker
For a band that recorded only four albums (not including all the posthumous releases and Squeeze, which NEVER HAPPENED), the Velvet Underground used no fewer than five vocalists: Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Doug Yule, and Moe Tucker, who so tenderly sang “After Hours.” (Sterling Morrison never sang lead; he contributed a single line to “I’m Sticking with You” and recited parts of “The Murder Mystery.”) Reed has said that he asked Tucker to sing this sad little song about isolation because it was too “innocent and pure” for his voice. She is now a member of the Tea Party.
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