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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

Animal Serenade

Animal Serenade kicks off with the familiar three chords of "Sweet Jane" -- but instead of opening his ninth live album with his best-known song, Lou Reed pauses to explain that the intro actually includes four chords, then moves right to his 1990 John Cale collaboration "Small Town." At sixty-four,...

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NYC Man: The Collection

2003

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2003

Ecstasy

2000

Perfect Night: Live In London

1998

Set The Twilight Reeling

1996

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Lou Reed was a young poet who had studied under Delmore Schwartz. John Cale was a young composer who had studied under Cornelius Cardew and worked with La Monte Young. (While none of those mentors were famous names, each had genuine underground cachet.) They joined in a band called the Warlocks; they were arty and intellectual and subversive, all of which appealed to Andy Warhol, who incorporated ...

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