There were at least three Lou Reeds. First and most enduring was the front man of the Velvet Underground, the greaser poet from Long Island who had a cabbie’s voice and a knack for writing songs about ...

After Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale reunited for Songs for Drella, a song cycle about their erstwhile benefactor. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of ...

The new Lou Reed exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts features a vast array of his personal artifacts. NY Post photo composite “His father was an accountant and taught Lou to ...

It seems October 27th, 13 years ago, was a Sunday. In a town called Springs in East Hampton, on the eastern tip of Long ...

Keith Richards has released a cover of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man," in honor of what would have been Reed's 82nd birthday on March 2. The track is part of an ...

While Lou Reed knew that The Velvet Underground were never made for the limelight, that wasn't going to stop him from having ...

In 1973, Lou Reed was interested in the future. He had released his debut solo album the previous year and had no plans to let his previous band, the Velvet Underground, define his entire career. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famously frightening and unpredictable: Lou Reed in London, 1982 - TPLP/Getty Images When you put on Lou Reed's 1975 album Metal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When regarding the decidedly colourful back catalogue of the late Lou Reed, the phrase 'all of human life is here' springs to mind ...

Since his earlier days as a songwriter and in-house performer for the low-budget label Pickwick Records in New York City, Reed wrote a collection of songs for other artists, including hisfuture Velvet ...

New Yorkers are always craving new sensations. Even with jazz clubs, concert stadiums, and subway performances scattered — and sometimes moving — throughout the city, new music can typically find a ...

When I first came to Los Angeles in my 20s I worked on the sets of a few movies as a unit publicist, among them director Allan Arkush’s 1983 rock musical “Get Crazy,” which starred Malcolm McDowell ...