Lou Reed
Born | March 2, 1942 |
Hometown | New York City, U.S. |
Net worth | $15 million |
Height | 5'10" (1.78m) |
Spouse | Bettye Kronstad, Laurie Anderson, Sylvia Morales |
Parents | Toby Reed, Sidney Joseph Reed |
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'Sweet Wild and Vicious' is a tour through the reason Lou Reed deserves biographies: the songs
- Journal Sentinel books editor Jim Higgins packs a lot into his new book about Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's nearly 50-album discography.
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Lou Reed Tribute Album Announced with Keith Richards’ Cover of “I’m Waiting for the Man”: Stream
Angel Olsen, The Afghan Whigs, and Joan Jett also contributed to the project. Lou Reed Tribute Album Announced with Keith Richards’ Cover of “I’m Waiting for the Man”: Stream Eddie Fu
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Lou Reed’s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, "Sadly Addicted" to Talking to It
Screen Reed-er Since before ChatGPT was even a thing, Laurie Anderson, the widow and longtime collaborator of the late, great Lou Reed, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner — and now, she's hooked. In an interview with The Guardian, the 76-year-old experimental artist who just won a "Lifetime Achievement" award […]
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Laurie Anderson on Her Surprising (to Her) Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: ‘I’m Glad to See They’re Softening’ on ‘Experimental Stuff’
When the Recording Academy’s list of its 2024 lifetime achievement awardees was announced on Jan. 5, the name “Laurie Anderson” was most surprising to one of its recipients: Laurie Anderson. “The Grammys? They don’t usually look over at the experimental world. Then again, I do kind of go in and out of both,” says Anderson …
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"If anyone tries to tell you that Max’s wasn't a drug den, then they are lying to cover their now-respectable asses": the story of the club that provided a safe haven for New York's creatives, freaks
Home to the Velvet Underground, Warhol, Bowie and the New York Dolls, Max’s Kansas City was about so much more than just the music that was played there
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"We were scared to death about working with him": The Killers on the time they recorded a song with Lou Reed
The Las Vegas indie-rockers worked with Reed on their track Tranquilize
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Book Review: The Velvet Underground's story and afterlife told in the oral history 'Loaded'
Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “screeching urge of sound” from Lou Reed and his bandmates, a local reviewer wrote, and retreated in horror after their second song, “Heroin.” The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space. Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells that unusual story in “Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground.
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The Best Music Books of 2023: Lou Reed, Britney Spears, Sly Stone, Girl Groups and More
Every year we start off this column in the same way, with a “so many books, so little time” caveat and noting that it represents just a fraction of the fine music tomes released over the past year. And every year, we hope to spread the word on the excellent volumes that we actually managed …
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11 Rare Vintage Photos of Lou Reed
The Velvet Underground musician left an everlasting mark on rock, while also becoming a fashion icon and New York City legend in the process.
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Rosanne Cash on The Wheel, Singing with The National, and Covering Lou Reed
The singer-songwriter celebrates the album's 30th anniversary and previews the accompanying tour. Rosanne Cash on The Wheel, Singing with The National, and Covering Lou Reed Consequence Staff
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Fairytales of New York: The Velvet Underground, Nico & Warhol
In the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground, veteran culture journalist Dylan Jones gives us swirls of vivid eyewitness reports, provocative opinions and clashing viewpoints. That’s fitting for a band made up of notoriously flinty characters — Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, as well as their […]
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