Cale, Robert Allan

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music. John Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College before moving in 1963 to New York City, where he performed as part of the drone collective 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), Fear (1974) and Music for a New Society (1982). Cale has worked as a record producer on albums by artists including Nico, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers and Patti Smith.