John Cale: Leading From The Fringe

I was a fan of Lou Reed first; then The Velvet Underground and then John Cale. Truth be told – and I don’t mind admitting it a) I was young b) there was no internet then – for a while I thought John Cale and J.J. Cale was the same person. I was 12 years old; digging the fact that J.J.’s originals of After Midnight and Cocaine were so much cooler than th…