John Cale was awarded a prestigious classical music scholarship in Boston. He would go on to form one of the most influential bands of all time. At the end of 1963, using the money from the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. John Cale is a jack-of-all-trades, a polymorphic beast who has always played to his ...

John Cale is one of the most influential musicians ever to have come from Wales. Born to a coal miner father and school teacher mother in Garnant in 1942, Cale's talent for music - particularly the ...