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Lou Reed knew that he was an excellent songwriter, but he rejected the idea that he was singlehandedly responsible for a ...

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 ...

In a new interview, chatting with Lou Reed's widow Laurie Anderson, Lars Ulrich reveals what Metallica were "unprepared" for while recording the collaborative, divisive Lulu album. The two spoke for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lou Reed in the little-seen "No Money Down" music video, 1986. (Photo: Sony Music) Lou Reed's seminal work with the Velvet ...

"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." ...

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is opening up Lou Reed’s archives in a large-scale exhibit. The Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars exhibit will include the life work of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...