Lou Reed
Lou Reed (1942-2013) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the main songwriter and singer of The Velvet Underground, the group he formed in 1965 with John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise, and he later had a long solo career. He is also known in experimental circles for Metal Machine Music (1975), a double album of guitar feedback and processed sound. The Velvet Underground were managed early on by Andy Warhol, and their debut The Velvet Underground & Nico came out in 1967. Reed left the band in 1970.
In Our Sleep (12"EP)
1995 promo-only EP on Warner Bros. with several versions of two strange minimal songs co-written and -produced by Brian Eno, featuring Lou Reed on guitar.
Transformer
Transformer is Lou Reed’s glam‑tinted breakthrough: a Bowie/Ronson‑produced 1972 suite that turns New York demi‑mondes, queer desire and everyday despair into string‑swaddled anthems and deadpan rockers, from “Vicious” to “Perfect Day” and “Walk on t…
Words & Music, May 1965
Light in the Attic Records, in cooperation with Laurie Anderson, proudly announces the inaugural title in their ongoing Lou Reed Archive Series: Words & Music, May 1965. Released in tandem with the late artist’s 80th birthday celebrations, the album …
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Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed's infamous Metal Machine Music returns for its 50th Anniversary. The most notorious album in rock history returns – Remastered, Revisited, and Still as Radical as Ever
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Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65
First official anthology of Lou Reed’s work for Pickwick Records 1964-1965
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Hudson River Wind Meditations
Tip! “I first composed this music for myself as an adjunct to meditation, Tai Chi, and bodywork, and as music to play in the background of life, to replace the everyday cacophony with new and ordered sounds of an unpredictable nature. New sounds free…
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