Sterling Morrison is a very much under-rated, undervalued and unsung legend, so often relegated to being merely viewed as secondary to Lou Reed and John Cale, when in fact so much of the beauty of the Velvet Underground's sound is because of Sterling's simple, mellifluous guitar parts.

Galaxie 500 wrote a song in tribute to Sterling's post-VU life as a restorer of tugboats, titled (oddly enough) "Tugboat", which appeared on their first 7".