Lou Reed can’t help but laugh after announcing the title of a new song, “Heroin,” on a demo recording from May 1965. He then gives a surprisingly folky, almost Dylan-esque performance of the ...

"Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars," at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, ranges from rare demos to personal and professional ephemera.

Why Don’t You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65 is a 25-track collection of rare recordings that were issued by the long-defunct label. Pickwick specialized in churning out singles ...

A 17-track album of demos recorded by Lou Reed titled “I’m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos” was briefly released by RCA/ Sony Music on iTunes in Europe over the holiday in an apparent ...

Hear Kris Kristofferson, Lou Reed Talk Songcraft on Rare Live Album 'Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson: In Their Own Words with Vin Scelsa' captures disparate songwriters onstage in 1994 at New York ...

'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.

Fans of Reed’s music have no need to worry though for Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars. displays never-before-heard recordings of music from his Freeport High School band, The Shades ...

A 1965 demo of Lou Reed performing 'Men Of Good Fortune' has been shared today (August 16) - check it out here. The rare demo features very different lyrics to the original The Cover ...

In 2023, a decade after the death of Lou Reed — songwriter, singer, guitarist, mercurial rock ‘n’ roll change-maker— his literary-minded fans got two fresh volumes: “Loaded: The Life ...

From images of Reed with fellow music legends like Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, and Patti Smith to behind-the-scenes shots taken by legendary photographer Mick Rock, here are 11 rare vintage photos of ...

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 ...

Hermes notes that it was rare to prescribe ECT as a sexual corrective, but the experience was vital to Reed’s own mythmaking and was the first marker of his outlaw status.