"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only single released from their third studio album, The Velvet Underground (1969).
The song was recorded in 1968 at TTG Studios in Hollywood.
A concert performance of the song, with Doug Yule on keyboards, was included on their double live album '.
The "What Goes On" organ riff was used in the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime," featured on their 1980 album Remain in Light.
In 1978, aficionados Mike "MC" Kostek and Phil Milstein started the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, which collected, cataloged and made available various rarities. They published a fanzine titled "What Goes On", and later on a newsletter titled "What Goes On Jr."