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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...