But in hindsight, Lou Reed is a pretty good album, filled with Velvet songs that the band had played ... when I sat down to actually write. But the top eight are inviolate – beginning with ...

Lou Reed died on Sunday at age 71 at his home on New York's Long Island. Liver disease was the listed cause of death. There are lots of great obituaries and remembrances of Reed, whose songwriting ...

Nobody was safe from Lou Reed’s scorn, and that includes The Doors. You’ll notice a pattern here. Reed was really not into West Coast rocker stardom, and The Doors were the kings of that realm ...

When you are dealing with the majesty of people such as David Bowie and Lou Reed, who were fearless in ... who also pushed boundaries with his songs but in different ways. While making equally ...

Velvet Underground leader got into the habit of throwing house parties in West London, and always made sure one man was invited ...

Case in point: the late, great emperor of disdain himself, Lou Reed—a man who’d rather roast and devour a music journalist than ... In a playlist made for the BBC, Lydon listed his favourite songs of ...

Movies and pop music belong together. Both media understand the power of spectacle, the ability to turn intimate moments into ...

I’m a guy from The Bronx.” Over his 85 years, Dion Francis DiMucci has been much more than that: lead singer of the ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

From Twin Peaks to his films to his own recording career, the director understood how much sound mattered — not only to the ...

To most, it refers to flash-in-the-pan artists like Los Del Rio, the group behind the megahit “Macarena” who flew too close to the sun (and the top of ... n’roll , Lou Reed only made the ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...