What happened to the members of The Velvet Underground? Sterling Morrison quit the band and launched a new life in Texas. His ...

The Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed lived a wild life. One crazy night in London, an unlikely cult hero became his drug ...

Lou Reed might have been a massive fan of Bob Dylan, but that didn't mean he wasn't afraid of taking the mick out of his distinctive vocal style.

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative musicians the rock world has known, releasing songs about heroin abuse and sadomasochism on his very first album ("The Velvet Underground and ...

If you're like me, when you think of Lou Reed, you think of his seminal band the Velvet Underground first and foremost. There ...

In an interview with The New Cue last year, for example, he recalled his encounters with Lou Reed in the early 70s, unwittingly becoming his supplier of hash. “I was a big Velvet Underground fan ...

These three famous rock stars were heavily influenced by jazz, and even diehard fans may not know how deep that influence ...

It’s wild.” Last year, Anderson revealed she was “addicted” to using an AI text generator to emulate the words of her late husband, Lou Reed, who co-founded US rock band The Velvet ...

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the ...

On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that ...