Lou Reed didn't feel satisfied staying in one lane throughout his career, but he felt that it was always interesting listening to musical chameleons.

Lou Reed was a titan of underground music, but the former Velvet Underground songwriter held an unexpected appreciation for mainstream icon Bruce Springsteen.

Lou Reed, as was often the case ... home in Manhattan and helped spawn a cultural revolution. Lou was the only artist in the early ‘70s music scene capable of writing a line like “plucked ...

On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that ...

Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative ... However, with the gradual acceptance of noise and ambient music as an art form – to its credit, RCA briefly considered releasing the ...

‘As a guitarist in the Lou Reed band at that time, I was actually sitting next to both David and Lou at dinner when this exchange took pace, I can tell you exactly what transpired verbally ...

The news that Lou Reed is going to be playing his brilliantly grim Berlin song cycle in its entirety at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in June reminds me of when he played what was then known as ...

Charli echoed her love of Lou Reed again last December, when she named the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ as “the apex of fine art” during speech at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards.

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the ...