John Cale

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John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, guitarist, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.

Cale has performed in a variety of genres, drone, classical, avant-garde, and experimental music throughout his five-decade career, before relocating to New York City's downtown music scene in 1963, where he performed with the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground.

Cale has released 16 solo studio albums, including the widely celebrated Music for a New Society, since leaving the band in 1968.

Cale has also risen to fame as a creative producer, appearing on the debut albums of many experimental artists, including the Stooges and Patti Smith.

Personal life

Betsey Johnson, a fashion designer, married Cale in 1968. After being married three years, the two divorced in 1971.

Cale married Cynthia "Cindy" Wells, better known as Miss Cinderella or Miss Cindy of the GTOs, in 1971, and the pair married shortly afterward. Their marriage was difficult, and they divorced in 1975.

Cale married Risé Irushalmi on December 6, 1981. Eden Cale was their one daughter together. They divorced in 1997.

Cale's favorite track for his 2004 debut on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs was "She Belongs to Me" by Bob Dylan; he also selected Remainder by Alain Robbe-Grillet as his starting book and an espresso coffee machine as his luxury item.

Cale, a boy, suffered from severe bronchial disease, which culminated in a doctor prescribing opiates. In order to drift asleep, he would come to rely on the drug. Cale's early dependence on medicine, according to biographer Tim Mitchell, was a "formative experience." "When I arrived in New York, drugs were everywhere, and they quickly became part of my artistic experiment," Cale later told an interviewer.

He was heavily involved in the 1960s and 1970s New York City's drug scene, using cocaine as his drug of choice. He is said to have "taken the majority of the commonly used medications in the United States." "Pote the 1960s, for me, drugs were a cool experiment," Cale said. "I was in over my head" in the 1970s.

Cale claims that his heroin use in the 1980s influenced his music. Following a string of disappointing performances and the birth of his daughter, he decided to clean up. According to a 2009 BBC interview, coffee was the "strongest drug" he was taking at the time. Cale has also produced Heroin, Wales and Me to raise concerns of heroin use, easy availability, and low cost of the drug in his native Wales and thousands of addicts.

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Early life and career

John Davies Cale was born in Garnant, a mining village in the River Amman valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Will Cale, a coal miner, and Margaret Davies, a primary school teacher. Although his father spoke only English, his mother spoke and taught Welsh to Cale, which complicated his father's friendship with him, even though he started learning English at primary school at the age of seven. Cale was molestified by two different men in his youth: an Anglican priest who molested him in a church and a music teacher. He played organ at Ammanford Church. Cale's toccata was recorded on the BBC and he composed mainly on the piano's black keys, as shown by Aram Khachaturian. When he was 11, his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Cale, who discovered a passion for viola, joined the National Youth Orchestra of Wales at the age of 13. Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, after receiving a scholarship. On the 6th of July 1964, he orchestrated A Little Festival of New Music, which was held on the 6th of July. He also contributed to the short film Police Car and had two scores published in Fluxus Preview Review (July 1963) for the nascent avant-garde group. He performed in the first concert of Piano and Orchestra in the United Kingdom, with composer and pianist Michael Garrett as soloists. In 1963, he travelled to the United States to continue his musical education with Aaron Copland's help and fame.

Cale's arrival in New York City met a number of well-known composers. He performed, as well as John Cage and several others, in an 18-hour and 40 minute piano-playing marathon that was the first full length rendition of Erik Satie's "Vexations" on September 9, 1963. Cale's appearance on the television panel show I've Got a Secret is the result of his appearance. Cale's shroudle was that he had appeared in an 18-hour concert, and he was accompanied by Karl Schenzer, whose mystery was that he was the only one of the audience who had stayed for the duration. Cale would postulate Cage's letters with his own "relaxed" artistic perspective later on, having been encouraged to believe that European composers were obliged to justify their work.

Cale appeared in the Theatre of Eternal Music in La Monte Young. He played heavily drone-laden music, which was a major influence in his new band, the Velvet Underground. Sterling Morrison, a Velvet Underground guitarist, was one of his collaborators on these recordings. In 2001, three albums of his early experimental works from this period were released.

Solo career

Cale spent time on Velvet Underground, beginning as a record designer and arranger on a number of albums, most notable the Stooges' highly acclaimed 1969 self-titled debut and a trilogy (1974), including The Marble Index (1968), Desertshore (1970) and The End.... (1974). He accompanied Nico's voice and harmonium on these tours, using a diverse range of devices to achieve an unexpected result. He heard Nick Drake's music while co-producing Desertshore and insisted on working with him. He appeared on Drake's second album, Bryter Layter (1971), as the viola and harpsichord on "Fly" and piano, organ, and celesta on "Northern Sky."

Cale began as a producer before embarking on a solo recording career in early 1970. Vintage Violence, his first studio album, is a lushly produced roots rock effort influenced by a number of influences, including the Band, Leonard Cohen, the Byrds, Phil Spector, and Brian Wilson. In February 1971, the more experimental Church of Anthrax (a collaboration with minimal music pioneer Terry Riley) appeared, but it was not released until almost a year before. Although his art music studies lasted for a brief period of time with 1972's The Academy in Peril, he would not write in the classical style until 1980s film soundtracks.

He signed au courant Reprise Records as a recording artist and staff producer in 1972. Peril's Academy was his first project for Reprise. The subsequent Paris 1919-1973) brought the Crusaders' singer-songwriter mode of Vintage Violence, with Lowell George of Little Feat and Wilton Felder, as well as the UCLA Symphony Orchestra. Critics have lauded it as one of his best songs, composed of a slew of melodic songs with arcane and complex lyrics.

While being associated with the label, Jennifer Warnes (her third), Chunky, Novi & Ernie, and the Modern Lovers' self-titled debut, which Reprise declined to reveal; the first in a string of influential Cale-produced proto-punk records appeared on Beserkley Records. He signed to Island Records as an artist in 1974, but he continued to produce a number of artists, most for other labels, including Squeeze, Patti Smith, and Sham 69. He spent time as a talent scout with Island's A&R Department.

Cale returned to London in 1974. He recorded a series of solo albums as his second marriage began to dissolve, leading in a new direction. His albums now had a mysterious and threatening aura, with a sense of barely suppressed violence. Fear (1974), Slow Dazzle (1975), and Helen of Troy (1975) were all recorded and released over the course of a year with other Island artists, including Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno of Roxy Music and Chris Spedding, who performed in his live bands. His dramatically improved cover of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" appeared on Cale's Slow Dazzle and the live album June 1, 1974, with Kevin Ayers, Nico, and Eno, who was a showpiece of his shows from the 1980s. Both "Leaving It Up to You" and "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (from Fear) begin as relatively straightforward songs that gradually develop in tone before crumbling into "a morass of discordance and screaming," according to critic Dave Thompson.

Animal Justice was released in 1977, a landmark EP based loosely on Henrik Ibsen's play. His vivacious, abrasive, and confrontational live performances fit well with the punk rock scene, which is also on both directions of the Atlantic Ocean. Cale went back to wearing a hockey goaltender mask onstage (as evinced by Guts (1977), a collection of treasured from the Island trilogy by the brand after the label withheld Helen of Troy in the United States); this glimpse predates the 13th's villain, Jason Voorhees, by many years. Cale chopped the head off a dead chicken with a meat cleaver during a one-night performance in Croydon, south London, causing his band to walk offstage in protest. The drummer, who was a vegetarian, was so befuddled that he left the band. Cale mocks the Animal Justice EP's decision on "Chicken Shit." Cale has admitted that some of his erratic and anxiety symptoms at this moment were due to heavy cocaine use.

Margaret Moser, a Texas-based groupie/journalist, began a friendship in 1979. Cale identified the group of women that Moser hung out with the Texas Blondes. Moser's relationship lasted about five years, with some of his third marriages overlapping.

Cale's adherence to the punk rock ethic he inspired culminated in the introduction of Sabotage/Live in December 1979. This record, which was recorded live at CBGB in June, features spirited vocal and instrumental performances. The album is entirely made up of new songs, many of which clash with global politics, militarism, and paranoia.

Deerfrance played vocals and percussion in the band. At CBGB the previous year, an earlier live set made up mainly of new stuff. It was announced in 1987 as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Ivan Král (best known for his collaboration with Patti Smith) on bass and longtime Brian Eno associate Judy Nylon on vocals are among the band's on the album.

Cale's 1980 debut with A&M Records brought him in a more commercial direction, with the release of the album Honi Soit (1981). At this point, he collaborated with producer Mike Thorne to come to an end. Andy Warhol provided the black and white cover art, but Cale colored it in defiance of Warhol's wishes. However, the new direction did not succeed professionally, and A&M's relationship with the company came to an end. He signed with ZE Records, a firm he had influenced the inception and that had acquired SPY Records, the label he co-founded with Jane Friedman. Cale released the sparse Music for a New Society in 1982. It's by no means a bleak, harrowing record. It's trying to blend the refined music of his early solo career with the threatening music of later. It has been described as "understandable," as well as a masterpiece.

He followed up with the album Caribbean Sunset (1984), which was also on ZE Records. In some ways, this work, which was much more available than Music for a New Society, was still extremist in terms. It has never been announced on CD. "Ooh La La" and "Never Give Up on You" were two live albums that followed John Cale Comes Alive, as well as two new studio songs, "Ooh La La" and "Never Give Up On You." On both directions of the Atlantic, two studio tracks were released in different versions. Eden Cale and his third wife Risé Irushalmi were born in Cale and his third wife Risé Irushalmi in July 1985.

Cale's last attempt at commercial success, Artificial Intelligence (1985), his first album for Beggars Banquet Records, was recorded in 1985. The album was created in collaboration with High Times/National Lampoon editor Larry "Ratso" Sloman, and it was characterized by synthesizers and drum machines. Despite the relative success of "Satellite Walk" alone, it was not significantly more effective than its predecessors. Nevertheless, "Dying on the Vine" is generally thought to be one of Cale's best songs. Who Am I This Time? During the same year, he served as a neo-Nazi host on an episode of The Equalizer and composed the music for a dramatization of Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Who Is It? (1982) was an American television show, starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon.

Cale has returned to work on their first studio album, this time for Happy Mondays: Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Output) in 1987.

Cale took a long time away from recording and performing as a result of his young daughter. He made a comeback in 1989 with the Brian Eno-produced Dying album Words. The album consists mainly of oral work, read or sung by Cale. It was published in 1982 as a reaction to the Anglo-Argentinian Falklands War, featuring poems by fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas. There are also two orchestral interludes, two other solo piano works "Songs Without Words," and finally a Cale track "The Soul of Carmen Miranda."

Cale also collaborated with Lou Reed on the album Songs for Drella (1990), a song cycle dedicated to Warhol, their mentor. Reed's 18-year absence from the album came to an end. Cale's autobiography revealed that he resentment at Reed's taking responsibility of the Songs for Drella's project. Reed and Cale's long-running rivalry contributed to the album's fervor and lurching annoyance, as did Reed's ambivalent relationship to Warhol.

Following a 20-year absence, the Velvet Underground reformed in 1990 for a Fondation Cartier benefit show in France. He teamed up with Eno in the same year on Wrong Way Up, a joint album characterized by an up-tempo accessibility that contrasts Cale's description of the couple's tense love.

Cale's "Hallelujah" was one of the two songs on Leonard Cohen's tribute album, "I'm Your Fan" a year later. Cale's mid-tempo acoustic version was performed on piano, and his arrangement became the basis of most of the song's subsequent covers, which has since been standardized.

Cale performed vocals on two albums, "Hunger" and "First Evening," on French composer and producer Hector Zazou's album Sahara Blue in 1992. All lyrics on the album were based on Arthur Rimbaud's poetry. Cale performed a spoken-word duet with Suzanne Vega on Zazou's album "The Long Voyage" in 1994. The lyrics were based on Oscar Wilde's poem "Les Silhouettes," and Cale co-wrote the song with Zazou. It was later released as a single (renamed "The Long Voyages") as it featured multiple remixes by Zazou, Mad Professor, and others.

Cale's first solo album of the decade came in 1996. Walking on Locusts debuted on Locusts, which was later revealed to be his only solo album of the decade. The collection featured appearances by Talking Heads' David Byrne, the Soldier String Quartet, and Moe Tucker, the original Velvet Underground drummer.

Cale produced an instrumental score for a Ballet titled Nico, which was performed by the Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam in October 1997 and was titled Dance Music. Cale has produced a number of film soundtracks, some of whom have adopted more classically influenced instrumentsation.

Cale spent the year on tour with singer Siouxsie Sioux in 1998. In February, he was the curator of a one-day festival called "With a Little Help from My Friends" which took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with the Metropole Orchestra as the host. The concert was broadcast on Dutch national television and featured "Murder Mouth," a song specially written for the occasion and has yet to be announced, sung in duet with Siouxsie and her second band the Creatures. Cale and Siouxsie continued their double bill tour in the United States from late June to mid-August, with both musicians collaborating on stage on several tracks, including a version of "Venus in Furs."

What's Welsh for Zen, Cale's autobiography, was written in collaboration with Victor Bockris and published in 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Cale's 1991 album "I'm Your Fan" featured a cover of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen on "Hallelujah." Cohen's initial rendition of the song attracted little attention; it was only because Cale's arrangement and recording of it (and Jeff Buckley's subsequent coverage of Cale's arrangement) that it gained attention that it gained traction. It was used in the 2001 animated film Shrek, but it did not appear in the film's soundtrack due to licensing restrictions.

Signing to EMI in 2003 with the EP 5 Tracks and the album HoboSapiens, Cale's return to the studio has a renewed identity as a regular recording artist, this time with music inspired by modern electronica and experimental rock. Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly co-produced the well-received album. It was followed by his album blackAcetate, which was released in 2005.

Alejandro Escovedo, an Austin singer-songwriter, released his eighth album, The Boxing Mirror, in 2005, which was released in May 2006. Cale's "Jumbo in tha Modernworld," a radio and digital single, was released in June 2006. The song was also featured in a video.

Circus Live, a 23-song live retrospective, was released in Europe in March 2007. This two-disc set, made up of recordings from both the 2004 and 2006 tours, features new arrangements and reworkings of songs from his entire career. The Amsterdam Suite, a collection of songs from a 2004 visit to the Amsterdam Paradiso, is of particular note. These songs were edited from a studio-created drone. The set also included a DVD with electric rehearsal equipment and a short acoustic set, as well as the 2006 video for "Jumbo in tha Modernworld," as well as a YouTube video for "Jumbo in tha Modernworld."

Cale also included a cover of the LCD Soundsystem song "All My Friends" in May 2007's vinyl and digital single collections of the LCD Soundsystem original. Cale has continued to perform with others musicians, viola to Replica Sun Machine, London's second album, and Ambulance LTD's second album.

Cale hosted "Life Along the Borderline" on October 11th, 2008, in honor of Nico's 70th birthday, five days later. On May 10, 2009, the festival at the Teatro Communale in Ferrara, Italy, was revived.

Cale represented Wales at the 2009 Venice Biennale, collaborating with writers, filmmakers, and writers, and focusing on his Welsh language.

Cale was selected to be the first Eminent Art in Residence (EAR) at the MONA FOMA festival curated by Brian Ritchie in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, in January 2010. 'Dyddiau Du (dark days)' at the Venice Biennale 2009 was on display at the festival, as well as a number of live performances at venues around Hobart.

The Paris 1919 album was on display at the Royal Festival Hall in Cardiff on November 21, 2009, and the Theatre Royal in Norwich on May 14, 2010. These performances were revived in Paris, France, on September 5, 2010; Brescia, Italy, September 10, 2010; Los Angeles, California, September 10, 2010; Barcelona, Spain; on September 28, 2010; Essen, Germany; September 10, 2010; Brisbane, Australia; on September 30, 2010.

Cale's career began in February 2011 and culminated in the release of Extra Playful, the Domino Records subsidiary.

He and his band appeared at the Brighton Festival in May 2011, performing songs on the theme of Émigré/Lost & Found. Cale was on the invitation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was the festival's guest director, to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Cale's first full-length studio album since 2005, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, his first full-length studio album since 2005. "I Want a Talk 2 U" is the album's collaboration with Danger Mouse, "I Wanta Talk 2 U." The album's critical reception was mixed to praise, with the Guardian newspaper describing it as "an album that blends the 70-year-old's knowledge with the glee of a small child."

In 2014, he appeared as a vendor in an episode "Sorrowsworn" of the crime drama television series The Bridge.

Cale's sixteenth solo album M:FANS debuted in January 2016. It features new recordings of songs from his 1982 album Music for a New Society.

Cale performed "Valentine's Day," "Sorrow" and "Space Oddity" at a late-night BBC Prom concert in London, honoring David Bowie's music.

Cale appeared with "Sunday Morning" and "I'm Waiting for the Man" at the 2017 Grammy Salute to Music Legends awards, among other things. The Velvet Underground was also a winner of the 2017 Merit Award.

Cale's latest single "Poison" was coproduced with Marissa Nadler in February 2019.

In September 2019, he gives three concerts titled 1964–2019 Futurespective at the Paris Philharmonie, welcoming compatriot Cate Le Bon to join the orchestra.

Cale appears on Kelly Lee Owens' album Inner Song's "Corner of My Sky" on the track "Corner of My Sky" which is set to debut on August 28, 2020.

Cale's "Lazy Day" album and accompanying video were released on October 6, 2020.

Cale's first full UK tour in nearly a decade appeared in February 2022. Cale's tour was to begin in Liverpool on July 15, before arriving in Whitley Bay, York, Bexhill, Cambridge, and the London Palladium, before ending the session at Birmingham Town Hall on July 25. Despite this, the tour was postponed to the fall of 2022 because certain bandmembers engaged had COVID-19.

Cale's latest track "Night Crawling" was unveiled in August 2022, accompanied by Mickey Miles' official (animated) video. The song brought back memories of his friendship with David Bowie. "I've been a helluva over the past two years, and I'm excited to give a glimpse of what's coming," Cale said in a tweet. "It's about mid-to-late Seventies that David and I would run into each other in New York." There was a lot of talk about getting some work done, but we'd end up running the streets, often before we couldn't even get a thought in our heads, let alone actually get a song together!" Cale's bandmates, Deantoni Parks, and vocalist Dustin Boyer, assisted by Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, play synths, bass, piano, and drums.

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