Music Lou Reed’s earliest transformation. With ‘Words & Music: May 1965,’ some of the rock legend’s best-known songs are heard in their earliest forms.

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 ...

"Lou Reed: Caught Between the Stars" — a new exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center — showcases an exciting array of the late rocker's archives.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music was more than an hour of feedback and noise with no noticeable structure. A new tribute album called Metal Machine Muzak interprets the spirit behind that work.

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.

"I hate Lou Reed more and more," Andy Warhol wrote in his diary in 1986, 20 years after the artist helped launch the singer's career with the Velvet Underground.

Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today on Long Island. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Three years ago today, the Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed died from liver disease at his home. He was 71. Reed was called a lot of things in his 71 years: a hero, an icon ...

Lou Reed's recording career embraces two distinct tracks: as the co-founder of 1960s proto-punk group the Velvet Underground and more than 40 years as a solo artist.

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.

Then comes the defining moment. Reed hollers, "And then my mind split open," which is followed by a nanosecond of a pause. After that pause, rock music is a different animal.