#lou reed

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David BowieandLou Reed at the Dorchester Hotel, London, 1972. Photo by Mick Rock.

dylanbsas:

John Cale-Lou Reed-Patti Smith and David Byrne at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club,, New York, NY - 1976

everythingloureed:

Andy Warhol photo of Lou holding pet dachshunds Archie and Amos, 1976.

80s-bowie:

Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie hanging out together at Café Royale, 1973

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Lou Reed at the San Francisco airport in November 1974. Photo by Michael Zagaris.

loureedsuggestions:

Lou Reed and Rachel at a party celebrating their third anniversary, April 1977 credit: Jill Furmanovsky

FromLou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis

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David BowieandLou Reed at the Dorchester Hotel, London, 1972. Photo by Mick Rock.

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Lou Reed at the San Francisco airport in November 1974. Photo by Michael Zagaris.

The Dictators - Faster and Louder

I have always loved this group due to Handsome Dan and the proto punk music they created, but I had NO IDEA that BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN sang in this song until today. Listen at the the 2:22 or so mark, he screams “ One! Two! One, two, three, four! “ you can barely hear it. 

And I love Springsteen. He also had an uncredited roll in Lou Reed’s Street Hassle, which is one of my top songs. What else has Springsteen song in and uncredited for? I think we are getting robbed….

Berlin (UK 2007 / Dir : Julian Schnabel)

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

new-national-kid:

Lou Reed and transgender girlfriend Rachel photographed by Mick RockforMelody Maker, 1977 (via)

Nico and Lou Reed at Scepter Studios recording the first Velvet Underground album, New York City, 1966. By Andy Warhol.

Morrissey - Satellite Of Love (Live) 2014 (Parlophone)

Lou Reed ‘Transformer’, RCA, 1972. Photograph by Mick Rock.

‘But I know, oh
It’s just a temporary thing
Oh yeah, it’s just a temporary thing’

Lou Reed, 1942-2013

Prophetic that the Miles Davis of rock and roll passed away on a Sunday morning. The calm before the storm that was the the Velvet’s first album, this song has always been my favorite of theirs. 

There’s a photo somewhere of a bunch of early 1970s luminaries sitting in some nondescript backstage. Everyone is in leather, everyone looks a bit gone, everyone is scowling. The lighting is too bright, the walls are too white. Lou’s off center, his jacket unzipped past a beautiful collarbone, and there, at the corner of his mouth, he’s smiling…just a little bit. Lou Reed.

Lou Reed and David Bowie

Andy Warhol Find from The New York Times

ByAlice Newell-Hanson

May 2, 2018

Recently, Pat Hackett, a New York-based writer and editor, opened an unassuming three-ring binder in her Gramercy Park apartment and discovered 83 unpublished photographs by Andy Warhol. The images — which depict, among other subjects, Brooke Shields, Muhammad Ali, Farrah Fawcett, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol’s two pet dachshunds, Archie and Amos, seated with Lou Reed — had been gifted to Hackett by Warhol not long before his death, in 1987, and had not left her home since.

Hackett was one of Warhol’s frequent collaborators and confidantes; she contributed to Interview, co-wrote his final film, “BAD” (1977), and later edited his posthumously published “Diaries” (1989). While working on another project, Warhol’s arch entertaining manual “The Party Book” (1988), she took home a selection of the artist’s photographs — casual portraits of friends and vivid snapshots of New York nightlife — to review as possible illustrations. “A few days later, when I mentioned that I would bring them back soon, he said, ‘Oh you don’t have to.’ He’d noticed how much I loved them,” recalls Hackett.

The previously unpublished and unexhibited images, which will go on show for the first time on May 3 at Hedges Projects in Los Angeles, are all one-of-a-kind silver gelatin prints that capture their subjects in stark black and white. “Oddly, as much as Andy is known as ‘the master colorist,’ there is a whole powerful, primitive area of his work that was exclusively black and white,” says Hackett.

Warhol turned to photography more and more in the years before his death, and “you could see how much it excited him,” she adds. “His whole view of the world and of art had always been that reality could not be improved upon. That made photography a natural next big step in his evolution as an artist.”

Correction: May 2, 2018An earlier version of this article misstated the year Andy Warhol’s film “Bad” was released; it was 1977, not 1987.

“Through Andy’s Lens: Never Before Seen Works From the Collection of Pat Hackett,” May 3-June 10 at Hedges Projects, 305 North Laurel Avenue, Los Angeles, hedges-projects.com.

Velvet Underground. 

bye Lou ❦

reallysuperspooky:

nevver:

“My God is rock’n’roll.” — Lou Reed

“…but will take life as it comes.”

schibborasso:

Lou Reed, John Cale (1966)

theswinginsixties:

Lou Reed when he was a student at Syracuse University, 1963.