The Lou Reed archive series will be launched on August 26th in a variety of formats.
Lou Reed’s pre-Velvet Underground days with John Cale will be the subject of the first of a new archive series from Light In The Attic Records and Laurie Anderson.
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged out of their hiatus with covers of David Bowie and Lou Reed during a gig in New York recently celebrating the work on British photographer Mick Rock.
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Classic records by the Sex Pistols, Otis Redding, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and more have become the latest to be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame, which aims to symbolically recognise ‘the tradition of preserving and celebrating timeless recordings’.
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On the first anniversary of Lou Reed‘s death, which fell yesterday (October 27th), John Cale remembered his late Velvet Underground bandmate with an emotional reworking of ‘If You Were Still Around‘. Watch the video below.
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Rolling Stone writer Will Hermes is aiming to tell the ‘full, definitive’ story of Lou Reed in a new biography on the late Velvet Underground frontman.
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Morrissey will pay tribute to Lou Reed, and mark the audiobook version of his recent autobiography, by releasing a live cover of ‘Satellite Of Love‘ next month.
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Lou Reed, a man who as a solo artist and with the Velvet Underground influenced every aspect of rock music for the best part of fifty years, has died at the age of 71.
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Lou Reed has called himself a ‘triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry’ after his wife revealed during the weekend that he recently underwent a life-saving liver transplant.
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