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Lou Reed

June 2024

  • Black and white portrait of John Cale.

    ‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

    He made rock history with the Velvet Underground and produced landmark albums for the likes of Patti Smith. At 82, his 18th solo outing proves he’s still at the bleeding edge

February 2024

  • Laurie Anderson

    Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’

    Anderson’s experiments with language-based AI predated ChatGPT – with one machine modelled on her dead husband that her friends ‘just can’t stand’

January 2024

  • Berlin bus at east side wall, BVG bus passing through Berlin Wall<br>2M79H36 Berlin bus at east side wall, BVG bus passing through Berlin Wall

    A musical tour of Berlin: from Wagner’s epic opera to techno raves

    In our new series, we explore a city through its musical landmarks and songs. First stop, Germany’s hip, historic capital, home to trailblazing clubs and inspiration for Dietrich and Bowie

December 2023

  • Lou Reed on stage in 1973.

    Book of the day
    Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes review – beauty and the beast

    Genius, queer pioneer, influencer: a vivid new biography presents rock’s poet of the shadow self for a new generation

March 2023

  • Lou Reed Attends Tai Chi Session At Vivid LIVE<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 07: American musician Lou Reed attends a Tai Chi session led by his personal teacher Master Ren Guan Yi at the Sydney Opera House forecourt on June 7, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Members of the public were invited to take part in the free event as part of the Lou Reed-curated Vivid LIVE festival. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    The Art of the Straight Line review – how tai chi brought out Lou Reed’s mild side

    The singer-songwriter transformed his later life practising the martial art, as this compilation of writing, edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, shows

January 2023

  • John Cale, white-haired, his arm raised, reaching out to the camera.

    Artist of the week
    John Cale: Mercy review – the titan of cool misses a trick

    The 80-year-old’s latest album features some inspired younger guests but cries out for less dated beats and a visionary producer

December 2022

  • Lou Reed in Paris in 1974.

    Transformer by Simon Doonan review – a walk on the wild side

    The former creative director of Barney’s remembers a beautifully transgressive moment in pop culture

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

September 2022

  • Lou Reed, second right, and John Cale, right, with their Primitives bandmates, c1964.

    Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 review – revelatory early cuts

  • Velvet Underground At The Delmonico Hotel<br>Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground performs on stage at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner, The Delmonico Hotel, New York, 13th January 1966. (Photo by Adam itchie/Redferns)

    Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed’s lost demo tape: ‘He really wasn’t that interested in his past’

June 2022

  • Lou Reed holding a copy of Metal Machine Music at an in-store signing in Paris, September 19, 1996. © Mila Reynaud.

    ‘A huge labor of love’: the Lou Reed exhibition years in the making

  • Lou Reed performing with the Velvet Underground in 1966.

    Lou Reed’s earliest Velvet Underground demos unearthed for reissue

April 2022

  • Songs For Drella Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella

  • Memory and recovery … John Cale and Lou Reed in Songs for Drella.

    Songs for Drella review – Lou Reed and John Cale’s moving journey into Warhol

November 2021

  • Photographer Mick Rock uses a point and shoot camera to photographer the photographers at the Uncut Ray-Ban Wayfarer Sessions event, on Nov. 15, 2006 at Irving Plaza in New York. Photographer Mick Rock, whose iconic portraits of rock stars saw him dubbed "the man who shot the 70s," has died. He was 72. A statement posted Friday on Rock's official social media accounts said "it is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side." No cause of death was given. (AP Photo)

    Mick Rock obituary

    Personal photographer to David Bowie who was also known as the Man Who Shot the 70s
  • Sean O’Hagan

    Pop is now too controlled to allow a maverick like Mick Rock to flourish

    Sean O’Hagan
    The great photographer, who has just died, collaborated with a golden age of musicians
  • ‘The stars seemed to effortlessly align for Mick when he was behind the camera’ … Mick Rock at the reception for a Taschen book collecting his photographs of David Bowie, 9 September 2015.

    Mick Rock, famed music photographer and ‘man who shot the 70s’, dies aged 72

    ‘Photographic poet’ created numerous iconic images of David Bowie as well as iconic artwork for Lou Reed, Queen and the Ramones

October 2021

  • "Dark Waters" Press Conference<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 08: Director Todd Haynes at the "Dark Waters" Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 08, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)

    Todd Haynes: ‘This world is too cosy. Except cosy is almost too cosy a word’

    Making a documentary about the Velvet Underground transported the film-maker to a ‘distant planet’ and more radical time. He talks about his envy of musicians, the spirit of Factory-era New York and ‘our lost spirit of revolt’

July 2021

  • The Velvet Underground, with Nico.

    The Velvet Underground review – Todd Haynes doc gets under the art-rockers’ skin

    With insights by the band’s former members and friends, this film takes its job seriously – even if it shies away from discordant notes

January 2021

  • Lou Reed 1974

    Photographer Mick Rock: ‘Social media means we won’t see another Lou Reed’

    The veteran, who also snapped David Bowie and Iggy Pop, talks of the birth of the ‘real underground’ and why it won’t happen again
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