What Goes On (Velvet Underground song)
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| Single by The Velvet Underground | ||||
| from the album The Velvet Underground | ||||
| B-side | "Jesus" | |||
| Released | March 1969 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | November - December 1968 at T.T.G. Studios, Hollywood | |||
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| Length | 4:55 | |||
| Label | MGM | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lou Reed | |||
| Producer(s) | The Velvet Underground | |||
| The Velvet Underground singles chronology | ||||
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"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only single released from their 1969 eponymous third album.
The song was recorded in 1968 at T.T.G. 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.
Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry performed "What Goes On" (with elements of "Beginning to See the Light") on his 1978 solo album The Bride Stripped Bare.
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.
It was also recorded by the Feelies on their 1988 album Only Life, Elizabeth Mitchell on her 2006 album You Are My Little Bird, The Screaming Trees on the 2009 compilation album Unpiecing the Jigsaw - A Tribute to The Velvet Underground and the Dils on numerous live albums.
Jim Kerr recorded it as the B-side to "Shadowland" in 2010, and later included it on the B-side to a 7" single included with the special edition of the Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr CD.
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