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6 unusual facts about Lou Reed


78 Records

Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, Lou Reed and Elton John were just some of the artists that came back on their next visit.

In Step

Lou Reed selected In Step as one of his 'picks of 1989'.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves

Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves (or how I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake) is an infamous interview with Lou Reed conducted by Lester Bangs and published in Creem magazine in 1975.

Loureedia

Being a velvet spider that lives underground, the genus was named after musician Lou Reed, lead singer of the group Velvet Underground.

September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill

The cast of performers consists of famous musicians such as Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, David Johansen, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Teresa Stratas, Lotte Lenya, Betty Carter, William S. Burroughs, The Persuasions, and Stan Ridgway (video version only).

The Essential Lou Reed

The Essential Lou Reed is a compilation album by Lou Reed released in 2011 by RCA Records.


A Walk on the Wild Side

In 1970, Lou Reed was approached about a project to turn A Walk on the Wild Side into a musical, a story he tells between songs on the his 1978 Live: Take No Prisoners album.

Baryshnikov Arts Center

Since then, the complex has presented artists including Laurie Anderson, Tere O’Connor, Molly Davies, William Forsythe, Lucy Guerin, Foofwa d’Imobilité, Toni Morrison, Benjamin Millepied, Richard Move, Maria Pagès, Mal Pelo, Lou Reed, Pierre Rigal, Meg Stuart and Donna Uchizono.

Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo

Also, the depiction of young addicts from seemingly normal families was particularly alarming: junkies at the time were still popularly perceived as much older, wilder characters, such as those depicted in Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider or in Lou Reed's songs.

Delores Holmes

Holmes also recorded or performed backgrounds for many artists and producers, including Garry Tallent, Danny Federici, Bill Chinnock, Neal Coty, Steve Delopoulos of Burlap to Cashmere and Fernando Saunders of Lou Reed's Band.

Dick Wagner

Wagner has also played lead guitar or written songs for Lou Reed's Berlin, KISS' Destroyer, Aerosmith's Get Your Wings, Peter Gabriel's self-titled solo debut, Hall & Oates' Along the Red Ledge, Burton Cummings' Dream of a Child, Mark Farner's solo debut and a pair of albums for the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry.

Dilgo Khyentse

Another film was "Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche", written and directed by Neten Chokling, and narrated by Richard Gere and Lou Reed.

Here She Comes Now

Originally intended for Nico to sing (who did indeed sing it on a few occasions during the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows), the song was demoed in 1967 by Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.

James Colley

Raised in Bakersfield, California, Colley found his musical inspiration in the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed.

Jenny O.

In 2011, Jenny O. contributed her version of the Buddy Holly song "I'm Gonna Love You Too" to the tribute album Rave On Buddy Holly, released on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group); the album also included tracks by Paul McCartney, Fiona Apple, Kid Rock and Lou Reed.

Leather Nun

Inspired by such groups and artists like John Lee Hooker, The Mothers of Invention, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Rory Gallagher and Mick Ronson, The Leather Nun released their debut EP, Slow Death, in November 1979, featuring a recording of "Death Threats" from 1978 and three newly recorded tracks.

Live Heroes

#"All Tomorrow's Parties" – 5:28 (Lou Reed)

Lorraine O'Grady

The review was first published nearly 40 years later in Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll, 2010, a photo book with texts by Lou Reed, Lenny Kaye, Danny Fields, Lorraine O’Grady, and Steven Watson.

Luca Prodan

Recorded mostly in the Traslasierra region of Cordoba, Argentina (his initial dwelling place), they bear testimony to his musical influences and inspiration: Peter Hammill, Nick Drake, Lou Reed, Ian Dury, Joy Division and Bob Marley.

Martin A. Smith

They have performed around London with such act as Detritus, James Banbury of The Auteurs, and various members of Lou Reeds band as well as members of The Fall.

Mel Gaynor

In addition to Simple Minds, he has played alongside other acts such as: Sir Elton John, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Samson, The Associates, Orange Juice, Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders, Prljavo kazalište, Gary Moore, Jackson Browne, Little Steven, Brian May, The Nolans, Goldie, Robert Palmer and Joan Armatrading.

Mike Campese

Mike continues to tour with his trio and as a solo artist and has opened and performed with many national acts such as The B-52's the Spin Doctors, KC and The Sunshine Band, Dokken, Sebastian Bach, Lou Reed, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, the members of Yes and Asia, Kip Winger and many more.

Milan Hlavsa

In 1999, along with Lou Reed, the Plastic People of the Universe performed at the White House.

Nora Sumberg

While studying on an Australia Council Scholarship at the New York Studio School, New York, Sumberg lived in the Hotel Chelsea and became acquainted with and befriended notable musicians and performers such as Blondie, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Johnny Rotten, Richard Hell and filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

On Melancholy Hill

The rest of the video shows Murdoc Niccals, 2-D and Cyborg Noodle traveling through the deep ocean with a fleet of submarines, crewed by all of the collaborators that helped make the album, including Lou Reed, De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, 2manyDJs and Gruff Rhys.

Oren Bloedow

Career highlights for Oren include being named Artist of the Year by Greil Marcus in 2004, musical directing the Randy Newman tribute at UCLA's Royce Hall for impresario Hal Willner, performing with Lou Reed, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and once with Bruce Springsteen at Carnegie Hall.

Pamela Rooke

She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions and often performed the song live with them from mid-1977 up to May 1978 when she left the band.

Psychogrotesque

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear No One Studios by Emiliano Natali, with the sound consulting of Marc Urselli (founder of The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab and sound engineer for artists like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Eric Clapton) at the Eastside Sound Studios in New York.

Ronnie Ross

Ross was a saxophone tutor for a young David Bowie, played tenor saxophone on The Beatles White Album track Savoy Truffle and years later was the soloist on the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side", which was co-produced by Bowie.

Rotten Rita

Rapp's death in late 1991 (together with that of songwriter Doc Pomus by cancer) inspired Lou Reed, another famous Factory denizen, to compose his 1992 album Magic and Loss.

Shelly Yakus

Shelly Yakus has engineered recordings for many performers, including John Lennon, the Ramones, U2, Tom Petty, Van Morrison, Alice Cooper, the Band, Blue Öyster Cult, Dire Straits, Don Henley, Madonna, Stevie Nicks, The Pointer Sisters, Lou Reed, Bob Seger, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Warren Zevon, Star Radio and Elliott Murphy.

Sonny Vincent

Vincent has performed and recorded with many musicians, such as Wayne Kramer, Maureen Tucker, Scott Asheton, Captain Sensible, Cheetah Chrome, Bob Stinson, Walter Lure, Brian James, Thurston Moore, Richard Lloyd, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Jad Fair, John Sluggett, Greg Ginn, John Reis, Lance of Athens GA, and Kim Shattuk.

Stephen Emmer

In 2008 he released Recitement, an album featuring spoken word from Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Burton, Sylvia Kristel, and others, set to his music.

The First Annual Report

AllMusic called the album "a milestone in subversive music matched only by Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music".

The Pizza Underground

The group released its first music video in January 2014, parodying various Velvet Underground songs such as "All Pizza Parties" ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), "Pizza Gal" ("Femme Fatale"), and "Take a Bite of the Wild Slice" (Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").

Tokion

While in New York, the magazine's focus shifted from Japanese-influenced content to street culture aesthetics and then to a more global arts magazine featuring interviews with recognized artists such as Lou Reed, Richard Prince, James Brown, Francesco Clemente, Roger Corman, Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons, while continuing to cover up-and-coming artists such as Harmony Korine, Miranda July, Cory Arcangel and Simone Shubuck.

Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed

Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed is the first greatest hits compilation by Lou Reed, formerly of The Velvet Underground.


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Jay Hails

His songs are influenced by Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, and in his own words, "the guy who wrote that Juicy Fruit chewing gum jingle".

Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves

After fortifying himself with research and drugs, Lester Bangs meets Lou Reed in a hotel room, where they trade barbed personal insults, and argue about the current music scene, amphetamine formulae, and the background music which Lou has selected (Herbie Hancock).

The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed

The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground.

The Blue Mask

Quine also toured in support of the album and can be seen on the recorded Bottom Line show titled A Night with Lou Reed.

The Lincolns

He recruited some of the best musicians available, some from previous tours, particularly the Lou Reed Sally Can't Dance album and tour.

Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Will Hermes of Rolling Stone rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, and called it "A series of bracing songs about a self-destructive girl in a boy's body, its a thematic offspring of Lou Reed (see Berlin, etc.), and noted how "it takes balls to come out this way, in this genre" wishing Laura "God-speed, sister.