Doug Yule is best known as bassist and sometime-vocalist for The Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973, having replaced John Cale to play on the bands eponymous third album. Yule also appears on Loaded and 1972’s Squeeze which, although called a Velvet Underground album, included none of the band’s original members.

Yule went on to contribute to a number of Lou Reed solo albums, including Sally Can’t Dance and Coney Island Baby. He also did some session work with Elliot Murphy and was a member of country rock band American Flyer