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Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band The Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
American rock musician Lou Reed released 22 studio albums, 17 compilation albums, 15 live albums, six video albums, 46 singles, 16 music videos, and one box-set.
The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records (Reed described his tenure there as being "a poor man's Carole King"). [10]
Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a songwriter for hire at a company called Pickwick Records. He churned out ...
Saint John’s Eve is a big deal in my hometown of Porto, in Portugal. The night of June 23rd into the 24th marks the peak of midsummer festivities and coincides with the celebration of the city ...
Lou Reed is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed, released in May 1972 by RCA Records, [1] two years after he left the Velvet Underground.It was produced by Richard Robinson and Reed and features London session musicians as Reed's backing band, two of whom, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe, were from the British progressive rock band Yes.
Keith Richards’ cover of the Velvet Underground’s iconic “I’m Waiting for the Man” leads the upcoming collection The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed, due April 19 on CD/digital ...
Reed and three of the people he has said he described in his lyrics: Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis and Joe Dallesandro In the 2001 documentary Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer, Reed says that it was Nelson Algren's 1956 novel, A Walk on the Wild Side (itself titled after the 1952 song "The Wild Side of Life"), [13] that was the launching point for the song, even though, as it grew, the ...