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

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 ...

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 ...

David Byrne has revealed the strange advice given to him by Lou Reed during their odd encounter in the mid-1970s, while Reed ...

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 ...

Not everyone is going to be a fan of Lou Reed's sense of humour, but one song from 1992 may well be a test for those with a high tolerance for the macabre.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...