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Sterling Morrison

East Meadow, United States

Sterling Morrison is credited on 1,068 releases across 172 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,068

Pressings credited

172

Albums

Decades active

1,216

In collections

Biography

Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. (August 29, 1942 – August 30, 1995) was an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals. Unlike bandmates Lou Reed, Doug Yule, John Cale, Maureen Tucker and Nico, Morrison never released a solo album or made recordings under his own name. He was nevertheless an essential element of the group's sound as a guitarist whose percussive and syncopated rhythm playing and melodic lead parts provided the foil for Lou Reed's improvisational rhythm and lead guitar riffs.

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