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John Cale
One of music's great adventurers, John Cale helped shape underground rock 'n'
roll with an incredible range of groundbreaking and experimental pieces of
music. Born on March 9, 1942, in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, John Cale was
a child protégé who composed his own piano pieces in his teens and studied
classical music at Goldsmiths College, London before moving to New York in 1963
on a scholarship organized by Aaron Copland. In New York, he co-founded the
Velvet Underground with Lou Reed and became the ultimate avant-garde, art rock
act, supported by Andy Warhol. Although the...
