“Who Loves The Sun” by The Velvet Underground

Lou Reed wrote "Who Loves the Sun", but it's Doug Yule, the band's multi-instrumentalist, who sings it. It turned up in 1970 on Loaded, the Velvet Underground's fourth album, released by Atlantic's Cotillion imprint and meant to hand the label the hit songs it had been asking for, and Reed had walked out on the band shortly before it reached the stores.

Yule plays bass here too, Reed and Sterling Morrison handle the electric guitars, and engineer Adrian Barber sits behind the drums; Geoffrey Haslam and Shel Kagan produced. The hits never came, and neither the album nor its singles charted, but Loaded has won critics over in hindsight, many fans hold it up as the last true Velvet Underground album, and Rolling Stone has twice ranked it among the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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