John Cale
John Cale (Garnant, Wales, 9 maart 1942) is in Britsk muzikant, songskriuwer en produsint. Cales wurk wurdt foar it grutste part rekkene ta de (alternatieve) rock, hoewol't er klassyk ûnderrjochte waard. Hy wie ien fan de leden fan The Velvet Underground (mei Nico) ein jierren ’60.

Neist rock hat Cale ek oare muzyksjenres beoefene lykas drone en klassike muzyk. Nei't er by de Velvet Underground ei gie yn 1968 hat er sa'n 30 albums útbrocht. Faaks is er as soloartyst it meast ferneamd fan syn album Paris 1919, syn coverferzje fan Leonard Cohens "Hallelujah", plus de mids-70er jierren by Island Records ferskynde albumtrilogy: Fear, Slow Dazzle en Helen of Troy.

Cale hat wurk produsearre- as oparbeider mei Lou Reed, Nico, La Monte Young, John Cage, Terry Riley, Hector Zazou, Cranes, Nick Drake, Mike Heron, Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges, The Modern Lovers, Art Bergmann, Manic Street Preachers mei foaroanman James Dean Bradfield, Marc Almond, Element of Crime, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, LCD Soundsystem, The Replacements en Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Cale waard yn 1996 opnaam yn de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as lid fan de Velvet Underground.

Diskografy

New York yn de jierren sechtich, neityd útbrocht 
 Sun Blindness Music (Table of the Elements) 2001
 Dream Interpretation: Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. II (Table of the Elements) 2001
 Stainless Gamelan: Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. III (Table of the Elements) 2001

Mei The Velvet Underground 
 The Velvet Underground and Nico (Verve) 1967
 White Light/White Heat (Verve) 1968
 Live MCMXCIII (Sire) 1993

Solo 
 Vintage Violence (Columbia) 1970
 The Academy In Peril (Reprise) 1972
 Paris 1919 (Reprise) 1973
 Fear (Island) 1974
 Slow Dazzle (Island) 1975
 Helen of Troy (Island) 1975
 Guts (compilation) (Island) 1977
 Sabotage/Live (IRS) 1979
 Honi Soit 1981
 Music for a New Society (Ze) 1982
 Caribbean Sunset (Ze) 1983
 John Cale Comes Alive (Ze) 1984
 Artificial Intelligence (Beggars Banquet) 1985
 Words for the Dying (All Saints) 1989
 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (live) (ROIR) 1991
 Paris S'eveille, Suivi d'Autres Compositions (OST) (Crepuscule) 1991
 Fragments of a Rainy Season (live) (Hannibal) 1992
 23 Solo Pieces pour La Naissance de L'Amour (Crepuscule) 1993
 N'Oublie Pas Que Tu Vas Mourir (Crepuscule) 1994
 Seducing Down The Door (kompilaasje) (Rhino) 1994
 Antartida (OST) (Crepuscule) 1995
 Walking on Locusts (Hannibal) 1996
 Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films of Andy Warhol (Hannibal) 1997
 Somewhere In The City (OST) 1998
 The Unknown (OST) (Crepuscule) 1999
 Le Vent De La Nuit (OST) (Crepuscule) 1999
 Close Watch: An Introduction to John Cale (kompilaasje) - 1999
 5 Tracks (EP) (EMI) 2003
 HoboSapiens (EMI) 2003
 Process (OST) (Syntax) 2005
 blackAcetate (EMI) 2005
 Live Circus (EMI) 2007
 Extra Playful (EP) (Double Six Records) 2011
 Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Double Six Records) 2012
 M:FANS (Double Six Records) 2016
 Mercy (Double Six Records) 2023

Mei oaren 
 Church of Anthrax (mei Terry Riley) (Columbia) april 1971
 June 1, 1974 (mei Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, Nico) (Island) 1974
 Songs for Drella (mei Lou Reed) (WEA) april 1990
 Wrong Way Up (mei Brian Eno) (All Saints) October 1990
 Last Day on Earth (OST, mei Bob Neuwirth) (MCA) May 1994

Bibliografy
 Victor Bockris & John Cale, “What’s Welsh for Zen”, 1999
 Tim Mitchell, Sedition and alchemy (A Biography of John Cale), 2003

Keppelings om utens  
 John Cale yn de feitebank fan All Music
  Offisjele John Cale side
  Offisjeuze meast komplete side
 Ynterview Cucamonga (Be-Radio1)

Welsk muzikant
Welsk gitarist
Welsk fioelist
Welsk sjonger
Welsk rockartyst
Welsk lietsjeskriuwer
Welsk muzykprodusint
Persoan berne yn 1942