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“Follow the dotted line,” Lou Reed grumbled at me in 2004. “Look, put all the songs together and it’s certainly an autobiography – just not necessarily mine. I write about other people, tell stories, ...

Soon after the country went into lockdown in March, I found myself listening obsessively to Lou Reed. I’ve been a fan for years, of course. A music critic without intimate knowledge of the Velvet ...

At the dawn of the 1980s, Lou Reed, the longtime chronicler of the underside of New York City since his days in the Velvet Underground, became a changed man. After a decade of personal excesses, ...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1965, he co-founded the Velvet Underground, a rock band managed by Andy Warhol. Reed went solo in the ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed ...

INSKEEP: That was a big hit for Lou Reed, who made the pop charts in 1973 with "Walk On The Wild Side," after years on the fringes. So he'd made it. And then, just a couple of years later, he tried ...

Tomorrow would have been Lou Reed’s 82nd birthday. It's been more than a decade since we lost the legendary musician, but his influence is still as indelible as ever. People continue to cover and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “Faulkner had the South, Joyce had Dublin. I’ve got New York – and its ...

As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of Velvet Underground classics recorded in 1965, along with several songs ...

LOU REED: (Singing) They said, hey, sugar, take a walk on the wild side. INSKEEP: That was a big hit for Lou Reed, who made the pop charts in 1973 with "Walk On The Wild Side," after years on the ...