Editing The Velvet Underground & Nico (section)

===Back cover lawsuit===
[[File:The Velvet Underground and Nico back cover.jpg|thumb|Reproduction of original back cover|200x200px]]

When the album was first issued, the main back cover photo (taken at a performance of Warhol's event [[Exploding Plastic Inevitable]]) contained an image of actor [[Eric Emerson]] projected upside-down on the wall behind the band. Having recently been arrested for [[drug possession]] and desperate for money, Emerson threatened to sue over this unauthorized use of his image, unless he was paid.{{sfn|Harvard|2004}} Rather than complying, MGM recalled copies of the album and halted its distribution until Emerson's image could be airbrushed from the photo on subsequent pressings.<ref name="10things">{{cite magazine|title='The Velvet Underground and Nico': 10 Things You Didn't Know|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-velvet-underground-and-nico-10-things-you-didnt-know-w471441|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=Jordan|last=Runtagh|date=March 12, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819061121/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-velvet-underground-and-nico-10-things-you-didnt-know-w471441|archive-date=August 19, 2017}}</ref> Copies that had already been printed were sold with a large black sticker covering the actor's image.<ref name="10things"/> <!--The image was restored for the 1996 CD reissue.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} More recently, a reissue of the vinyl via Newbury Comics features both the peelable banana as well as the original back cover featuring Eric Emerson's image.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}-->