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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Follow the dotted line,” Lou Reed grumbled at me in 2004. “Look, put all the songs together and it’s certainly an autobiography – just not necessarily mine. I write about other people, tell stories, ...

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 ...

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 Nico ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1972, Lou Reed's second solo album Transformer elevated him from a minor cult figure to one of the best known and most talked about artists in rock & roll, with its incisive portrait of the ...