Lou Reed | A Greatest Singer
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and also had a solo career that spanned five decades. The Velvet Underground achieved little commercial success during their existence, but are now regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music,More info:wiki
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#10 Inside Lou Reed’s Revelatory New Public Archive,More info:rollingstone
The voice comes out of a laptop-computer speaker like a ghost with attitude: the familiar bone-dry monotone of Lou Reed, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar as he sings about body counts and an unjust war. It is a rare marvel in the avant-rock legend’s half-century canon: a Bob Dylan–style protest ballad, rescued from a cassette of solo demos taped in 1971 when Reed – halfway between leaving his band, the Velvet Underground, and launching a solo career – was living in exile at his parent’s home in Long Island. Reed, who died in 2013, never officially recorded the tune. But he saved the main hook, which resurfaced in 1974 as the chorus and title of Reed’s searing memoir of his teenage hell in electroshock therapy: “Kill Your Sons” on the 1974 album, Sally Can’t Dance.
#9 Laurie Anderson Wants a ‘Lou Reed Listening Room’ at the New York Public Library,More info:billboard
Previously unreleased recordings from the rocker’s archive are also planned, including his landmark 1973 concert at Alice Tully Hall in New York.
If LaurieAnderson gets her way, the New York Library for the Performing Arts will have a “Lou Reed Listening Room,” where fans, musicians and scholars can crank his music to hear it as it was meant to be.
“Lou’s music was super-physical,” Reed’s widow Anderson told a crowd of journalists who’d gathered at the Lincoln Center library to hear details of the announcement that it would soon house Reed’s entire archive. And, she added, that she was “pitching” the idea of a listening room so that the “force and energy” of his music could be fully experienced.
#8 REMEMBERING LOU REED, THE TOUGHEST INTERVIEW OF MY LIFE,More info:maxim
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#6 Lou Reed Dies,More info:grammy
#5 Lou Reed song ‘Take a Walk on the Wild Side’ accused of including transphobic lyrics by Canadian student group,More info:independent
#4 What Lou Reed Taught Me, by Legs McNeil,More info:vice
#3 Lou Reed’s ‘New York’ at 30: Moe Tucker, Dion & Bassist Fernando Saunders & More Reflect,More info:billboard
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#1 Addicted to Lou,More info:villagevoice
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