After Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale reunited for Songs for Drella, a song cycle about their erstwhile benefactor. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of ...
Writing about Johnny Marr and Lou Reed feels like the start of a joke: Two rock legends walk into a bar… But “In And Out Of ...
'He had style – that attitudinal New York hipster style.' ...
The new Lou Reed exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts features a vast array of his personal artifacts. NY Post photo composite “His father was an accountant and taught Lou to ...
In 1973, Lou Reed was interested in the future. He had released his debut solo album the previous year and had no plans to let his previous band, the Velvet Underground, define his entire career. But ...
Since his earlier days as a songwriter and in-house performer for the low-budget label Pickwick Records in New York City, Reed wrote a collection of songs for other artists, including hisfuture Velvet ...
Keith Richards has released a cover of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man," in honor of what would have been Reed's 82nd birthday on March 2. The track is part of an ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When regarding the decidedly colourful back catalogue of the late Lou Reed, the phrase 'all of human life is here' springs to mind ...
New Yorkers are always craving new sensations. Even with jazz clubs, concert stadiums, and subway performances scattered — and sometimes moving — throughout the city, new music can typically find a ...
There’s a long list of artists I wish I’d had the chance to interview before they shuffled off this mortal coil, but the late, great Lou Reed isn’t among them. It’s not that I’m not a fan of the man’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famously frightening and unpredictable: Lou Reed in London, 1982 - TPLP/Getty Images When you put on Lou Reed's 1975 album Metal ...
The Yes guitarist looks back on the unexpected recording dates that put him in studios with Reed, Queen and other unlikely collaborators ...