Lou Reed always kept his cards close to his chest, particularly during interviews, but in 2003 he revealed the two jazz stars ...

RCA Records made a radio spot for the release of “Transformer” that may have been amusing, disturbing or both to Reed. Over a medley of the most hard-rocking moments of the album, the announcer reads: ...

Lou Reed was a great writer both as a solo artist and for The Velvet Underground, but there was one song he simply couldn't shake. Read more here.

After Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale reunited for Songs for Drella, a song cycle about their erstwhile benefactor. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of ...

Xcx wore the shirt during her appearance as “Sally” during musical guest Role Model’s performance of “Sally, When the Wine ...

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 ...

Lou Reed has proved the old adage about death being the ultimate career move. New legal documents reveal that he has earned more than $20 million since he passed away from liver disease in Oct. 2013.

Two weekends ago, after a glorious spell out of town, I prepared to return to New York by listening to piles and piles of Lou Reed. During particularly good moments of floating in the ocean, bobbing ...

Apparently, Lou Reed was the H&R Block of classic rockers: The man kept his receipts. “His father was an accountant and taught Lou to keep receipts, keep records and all that sort of thing,” said ...

Lou Reed hated journalists. He hated them so much that he actually shamed one into becoming a rock star, or at least, for a time, a punk-rock star. It is one of my favorite Lou stories: When he was ...