John Cale Career Snapshots

Career Snapshots

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1968
Cale steps into the studio with Nico, providing arrangements for her second solo album, The Marble Index, which establishes the singer as a serious artist

1969
A year later Cale sets about capturing The Stooges' raw sound on tape, their self-titled debut LP firing the starting gun for the sound of punk to come

1972
Jennifer Warnes works with Cale on her third album, Jennifer. Featuring the Cale song 'Empty Bottles', it sells poorly but was recently reissued to acclaim

1975
Arguments over instruments and the direction the recording should take, but on release The Patti Smith Group's Horses is certified Gold

1976
Canned for four years, but The Modern Lovers' self-titled debut with six tracks produced by Cale is another landmark LP

1987
Happy Mondays join Cale to record their debut album. Squirrel And... kickstarts the band's journey to global success

2006
Cale helps the US alt-country guitarist and songwriter Alejandro Escovedo explore avant-rock and post-punk. The result is The Boxing Mirror

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