Apple buys rights to documentary on ‘The Velvet Underground’

One of the pillars of Apple TV + are documentaries, audiovisual creations in which they have found their niche in Cupertino since other platforms do not work in the same way. Okay, there are a lot of documentaries out there on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, but if you analyze those from Apple, you’ll see how they are “different.” Lots of them on music

, something that has always interested Apple, we saw it with the documentary on Beastie boys, or the recently released documentary on Bruce springsteen. Now Apple has just acquired the rights to a documentary from other big names: The Velvet Underground… Read on as we give you all the details on this long-awaited Apple TV + documentary.

The documentary, directed by Todd haynestell us debut of the legendary group ‘The Velvet Underground. A group directed by Lou Reed and directed by Ando Warhol

, the documentary will also take us to the group’s legendary evenings at Andy Warhol’s, evenings that will recall some of the celebrities and legends who attend.

the Velvet Underground created a new sound that changed the world of music, consolidating their place as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most revered bands. Directed by renowned filmmaker Todd Haynes (director of the ‘I’m Not There’ biopic on Bob Dylan), “The Velvet Underground” shows how the group has become a cultural touchstone representing a series of contradictions: the group is from its time, but timeless; literary but realistic; rooted in high art and street culture.

It’s a documentary that must be seen, not only because of what The Velvet Underground stood for, but because brings us a moment in the history of music, the 60s when art was able to combine various disciplines. It is not yet known when the documentary will be released, but it is expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2021.