Critical reaction to 'Lulu,' Lou Reed's new collaborative album ... "(They) are threatening to shoot me, and that's only because I showed up," Reed says. "They haven't even heard the record ...

What gave Lou Reed volcanic power over four decades of ... And then upped the ante with a simply titled (“Heroin”) number about shooting up that critic Ellen Willis astutely recognized as ...

Lou Reed liked to play off his sexuality as being ... every junkie is the same. Whether shooting up in a back room at Andy Warhol’s factory or a skid row hotel, the feeling of the drug ...

On September 21st, Lou Reed sat down for his ... The conversation Reed shared with director Farida Khelfa was part of a photo shoot for Parrot — Reed had offered his sonic expertise to the ...

Hermes quotes Cale as saying, “Sesnick fucked up my relationship with Lou…and I was angry at Lou for letting him do it.” Without the Velvets to buoy him, Reed became a different character ...

And Lou Reed was its ambiguous sovereign ... passed-out drunk or shooting up. Both Kronstad and Humphreys, the romantic partner who succeeded her, feel more alive on the page than Reed, who ...

Lou just started drinking and couldn’t stop,” Kronstad said. “I’d try to keep up with him. It was just ridiculous.” Image Thrown back amid his family and his childhood culture, Reed was ...