Lou Reed has written songs that the music world has envied. But if he had it his way, he would have written this old classic.

Shortly after graduating from Syracuse University in 1964, and a year before forming The Velvet Underground, a young Lou Reed worked as a songwriter and in-house performer for the low-budget label ...

In 1973, Lou Reed was interested in the future. He had released his debut solo album the previous year and had no plans to let his previous band, the Velvet Underground, define his entire career. But ...

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A previously unreleased demo of a Lou Reed song called "Men of Good Fortune" has been released. The track will appear on Words & Music, May 1965, the first installment of the upcoming Lou Reed Archive ...

On Sunday, legendary rocker Lou Reed passed away at the age of 71. (MORE: Rock Legend Lou Reed Dead at 71) Reed embodied New York cool and the downtown culture of the 1960s and ’70s. His influence — ...

Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes." This is FRESH ...

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 ...

Fresh out of Syracuse University, Lou Reed got a job with the low-budget version of the Brill Building, writing 99-cent knock ...

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Recently, author Neil Gaiman posted on Mastodon a link to a blog titled “The 20 Best Lou Reed Songs of All Time” with this comment: “the first time I’ve read an article that I could swear was ...

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 ...