Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. Staging Berlin has been discussed for over 30 years and in December ...

The most epic musical moment at this year’s South by Southwest Festival was a Lou Reed tribute extravaganza, a tented Texan sweatfest that saw the guest of honor publicly kissing Moby on the cheek (!) ...

In Lou Reed’s New York, the people worth knowing—the ones with nobility—are jazz arrangers, maverick saxophonists, conceptual artists. Characters. These days, that’s pretty much who to mention if you ...

33 years after Lou Reed released "Berlin," he gave the album its first live performance, which Julian Schnabel filmed for posterity. At the height of his popularity in 1973, Lou Reed released “Berlin, ...

Film composer and former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman Clint Mansell has released a track-for-track cover of Lou Reed‘s 1973 album Berlin, with help from friend and musician Clint Walsh. It was made as ...

The estimated average age of the audience gathered in the futuristic Tempodrom arena in Berlin’s western district of Kreuzberg is around 37. They’re gathered for a landmark event in rock ‘n’ roll ...

After the glam-rock success of 1972’s Transformer and its hit song, “Walk on the Wild Side,” Lou Reed created what he hoped would be his masterpiece, Berlin. It used the love story of two drug addicts ...

Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, ...

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