John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music.
John Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London before moving in 1963 to New York City, where he performed as part of the drone collective the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Since leaving the band in 1968, Cale has released seventeen solo studio albums, including Paris 1919 (1973) which is retrospectively considered to be his masterpiece, Fear (1974), Slow Dazzle (1975) and Music for a New Society (1982). In 1990, he collaborated with Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed on Songs for Drella which was a tribute for their mentor Andy Warhol.
Cale has worked as a record producer on studio albums by artists including Nico, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Squeeze, Happy Mondays and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Cale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996.
Read more...The March 9, 1942 was a Monday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 67 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 84 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, March 9, 2026, 83 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, March 9, 2027, in 281 days. You have lived for 30,764 days, or about 738,353 hours, or about 44,301,226 minutes, or about 2,658,073,560 seconds.
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