- Breakup Breakout: Keyboardist Jerry Harrison went on to join Talking Heads and drummer David Robinson formed The Cars. Frontman Jonathan Richman became a lo-fi singer-songwriter.
- Genre Popularizer: Along with the Stooges and the Velvet Underground, they started Punk Rock. Oh, and in a way Straight Edge.
- Referenced by...:
- David Bowie Covered "Pablo Picasso" for his 2003 album Reality.
- Brian Eno's "The True Wheel", from his 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) name-checks the band.
- The Shelf of Movie Languishment: They recorded their Self-Titled Album with producer John Cale in 1973. It wasn't released until 1976, when Punk Rock was starting to take off. By that time Cale's friend Brian Eno had heard the masters and been impressed, which is how they were name-checked in "The True Wheel."
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