Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lou Reed performing at the Paradise Theater (now the Paradise Rock Club) in Boston, Massachusetts, 8th March 1978. In 1975, Lou ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed ...

Beyond his edgy, poetic lyrical explorations that often profiled the dark side of humanity, the late Lou Reed experimented with sonic textures throughout his music career—including on his final solo ...

At the dawn of the 1980s, Lou Reed, the longtime chronicler of the underside of New York City since his days in the Velvet Underground, became a changed man. After a decade of personal excesses, ...

Soon after the country went into lockdown in March, I found myself listening obsessively to Lou Reed. I’ve been a fan for years, of course. A music critic without intimate knowledge of the Velvet ...

Tomorrow would have been Lou Reed’s 82nd birthday. It's been more than a decade since we lost the legendary musician, but his influence is still as indelible as ever. People continue to cover and ...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1965, he co-founded the Velvet Underground, a rock band managed by Andy Warhol. Reed went solo in the ...

LOU REED: (Singing) They said, hey, sugar, take a walk on the wild side. INSKEEP: That was a big hit for Lou Reed, who made the pop charts in 1973 with "Walk On The Wild Side," after years on the ...

As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of Velvet Underground classics recorded in 1965, along with several songs ...

INSKEEP: That was a big hit for Lou Reed, who made the pop charts in 1973 with "Walk On The Wild Side," after years on the fringes. So he'd made it. And then, just a couple of years later, he tried ...