Reed’s 1975 album Metal Machine Music, there’s one moment that is undeniably sweeter, more memorable, more perfect than any other. It’s when you turn it off. You’ll never regret that moment. Not today ...

It's been said that the first album by Lou Reed's Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground and Nico, 1967) only sold a thousand copies but everyone who bought it started a band.That may be ...

I remember the first time I ever really listened to Lou Reed. I was around 12 years old and I had recently come into possession of one of the old record players collecting dust at my grandmother ...

Reed, violist John Cale and German singer Nico perform in France in 1972. Reed, Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker played their first show as the Velvet Underground in 1965.

Reed, who died Sunday at 71 in Southampton, N.Y., would be enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a co-founder of the Velvet Underground, whose reputation exploded long after the group folded.

Lou Reed's recording career embraces two distinct tracks: ... The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). Musically experimental (for the times) and dark and subversive in tone, ...

Lou Reed’s seminal work with the Velvet Underground is back in the spotlight thanks to the tandem announcements of the Hal Wilner-produced all-star album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the ...

Here is one of the greatest recordings ever made at the Bataclan, one of the sites of last week’s killings. From 1972, this is Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico of the Velvet Underground performing ...

Hear Lou Reed's demo of the Velvet Underground's "Heroin," from the upcoming compilation 'Words & Music, ... The Velvet Underground & Nico, came out in March 1967. In this article: Lou Reed, The ...

Lou Reed and Nico at Scepter Studios during the recording of the first Velvet Underground album, May 1, 1966. Steve Schapiro/Corbis II. Henry Miller, the novelist and sexual adventurer, was also ...

Put to tape by Reed in May 1965, nearly two years before its release on The Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, this version of “Heroin” finds the artist ...

'Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965' presents a long-lost recording of the singer and John Cale performing the earliest known versions of the songs that would change rock with the Velvet Underground.