Lou Reed was the victim of categorisation. It would be a sore point throughout his career but on March 20th, Lou Reed was too ...

Lou Reed now has two, too ... Adding a footnote to a filler, Joan Jett does her glam-rock routine on Reed’s glam rocker “I’m So Free.” More interesting is Bobby Rush’s “Sally Can ...

We recently highlighted 20 essential rock songs from the 1970s ... we probably wouldn’t be haunted by the meaning. He was 29. Lou Reed had been searching for a sound since blowing up the ...

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

Reed’s solo career in the 1970s went from the David Bowie-produced glam of 1973’s Transformer (which had the hit “Walk On the Wild Side”) to the grim rock opera Berlin to the pure-noise ...