Lou Reed proved across his career that he was capable of pushing himself to his creative limit, but even some things were out ...

One of the messiest Lou Reed songs he ever wrote, 'Pale Blue Eyes' instead showed a man whose pain formed a large aspect of ...

The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed wasn't always one to play nice with other musicians... and journalists as a whole.

Velvet Underground leader got into the habit of throwing house parties in West London, and always made sure one man was ...

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

David Bowie's work with Lou Reed (on 1972 Transformer) and Iggy and The Stooges (on 1973's Raw Power) may have helped pave ...

I tried to evade it but it’s impossible,” joked David Bowie on turning 50. A day after celebrating his 50th birthday quietly with friends and family on January 8, Bowie held a star-studded birthday ...

Alec Tiffou is a student playwright for Matchbox Productions. His past two plays, Daddy Longlegs and Moth, have ran sold-out ...

Pronounced Jah-see, Gyasi seems in many ways to come from another planet, and being raised in the woods of a West Virginia ...

The Eagles have only one album. Fleetwood Mac have two. Supply and demand. Lou Reed now has two, too, following the release ...

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 ...

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 ...