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October 30, 2008

Lou Reed Goes Back to "Berlin"

The New York rocker on reviving his 1973 solo album, playing improvised rock & roll and how tai chi helps his music
December 15, 2006

Online Exclusive: Lou Reed Plays "Berlin" in Brooklyn

Reed's commercial disaster -- and artistic masterpiece -- gets live treatment for the first time

Recordings and Reviews

Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

Upon the 1973 release of Berlin, a Rolling Stone critic deemed the record "patently offensive." Thirty years later, Lou Reed's concept album about speed freaks on a downward spiral of infidelity, spousal abuse, parental neglect and death ranked 344 on this magazine's 500 all-time-greatest-albums...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Animal Serenade

2004

NYC Man: The Collection

2003

The Raven

2003

Ecstasy

2000

Perfect Night: Live In London

1998

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Biography

As the lead singer and songwriter of the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Lou Reed was responsible for a body of work that was alienated from the prevailing optimism of the day and was passionately bleak, and which remains highly influential today. He is often referred to as the godfather of punk. His solo recording career, beginning in 1972, has been more idiosyncratic and iconoclastic mar...

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