Discover the story behind Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day'—a love song tinged with melancholy and the legacy of a deeply flawed artist. From its minimalist lyrics to its profound emotions, this track remains ...

Julia Warhola emerges as tenacious, persnickety and personally artistic (the lettering in Warhol’s paintings is actually Julia’s handwriting). Lou Reed once sang, “There’s no Michelangelo coming from ...

The late, great Lou Reed’s long, twisty solo career was full of peaks and valleys. One of the peaks came in 1982, when Reed got together with the former Richard Hell guitarist Robert Quine and ...

Nobody was safe from Lou Reed’s scorn, and that includes The Doors. You’ll notice a pattern here. Reed was really not into West Coast rocker stardom, and The Doors were the kings of that realm ...

Saint John’s Eve 1980 was also the day Lou Reed arrived in Porto. Enjoying a day off after his Lisbon date, he was only scheduled to play the city’s Pavilhão Infante de Sagres on the 24th.

Except when it wasn’t. The latest instalment in Light In The Attic’s Lou Reed Archive Series, Why Don’t You Smile Now is the first, official account of the artist’s brief spell as a paycheque composer ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with ...

Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a songwriter for hire at a company called Pickwick Records. He churned out ...

Before co-founding the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was a staff songwriter for other artists at Pickwick Records. Now, his mid-1960s songs, performed by assorted artists on the label (with ...

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.

Lou Reed‘s birthday is Saturday (March 2); he would’ve been 82, and to celebrate a new tribute album has been announced. It’s titled The Power Of The Heart and is out April 20 via Light in ...