Adam Ritchie’s original rare images of Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd from 1965/66
The photographs on this website capture the energy and colour of the band’s legendary earliest appearances in New York and London. Velvet Underground in 1965/66 during the film “Venus in Furs”, at the Cafe Bizarre, at the NY Cinematheque, at Andy Warhol’s Exploding Galaxy and for psychiatrists at Delmonico’s. Pink Floyd in 1966/67 at Roundhouse, UFO and the AA Student Party.
These pictures are accompanied by photographs from New York and London. Some of the pictures have been shown at the Tate Liverpool, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Whitney in New York, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Andy Warhol Museum collection and also in Tokyo, Paris, Stockholm, Boston, Vienna and around. The rest of my photographs were destroyed.
Velvet Underground
Filming ‘Venus in Furs’
At Café Bizarre, New York
At Delmonico’s, New York
At The N.Y Filmmakers Cinemathéque
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Pink Floyd
At the Architectural Association, Dec 1966
At The Roundhouse, I.T. Fundraiser
At the UFO Club
