Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades.
The Velvet Underground was a commercial failure in the late 1960s, but the group gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era.Brian Eno famously stated that, while the Velvet Underground's debut album sold only 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
Reed began a solo career in 1972. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", but this level of mainstream commercial success was not repeated. Reed was known for his distinctive deadpan voice and poetic lyrics, and for pioneering and coining the term ostrich guitar tuning.
Rolling Stone magazine voted Reed's 1989 New York album the 19th best of the 1980s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included two albums by Reed as a solo artist: Transformer and Berlin.
Lou Reed (born 10 September 1987) is a Wales international rugby union footballer. He currently plays as a lock for the Cardiff Blues in the Pro12 league.
Reed signed for the Scarlets on a professional development contract in March 2006, but only made five appearances in the 2006–07 season. In order to gain some experience of first-team rugby, Reed was loaned to Rotherham for a month in December 2007.
In May 2012 the press announced that Reed would join Cardiff Blues, and the move was confirmed on 8 June.
International
In June 2011 he was named the Wales national rugby union team 45 man training squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Reed made his full international debut for Wales versus Scotland on 12 February 2012 as a second-half replacement.
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Lou Reed is the debut solo album by musician Lou Reed, released in 1972 by RCA Records two years after he left The Velvet Underground. The album comprises eight new recordings of then-unreleased Velvet Underground songs, plus two new songs, "Going Down" and "Berlin" (the latter was re-recorded by Reed as the title track for his 1973 album Berlin). Reed was backed by London session musicians, two of whom, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe, were from the progressive rock band Yes.
With increasing interest in the Velvet Underground, Reed's debut album was highly anticipated, but the result was a commercial and relative critical disappointment, peaking at only number 189 on the Billboard 200.
Track listing
All tracks written by Lou Reed except where noted.
Podcasts:
Lou Reed
ALBUMS
- Le Bataclan '72 released: 2014
- Milestones released: 2013
- Original Album Series released: 2013
- Lulu released: 2011
- Perfect Day the Best of Lou Reed released: 2009
- Original Album Classics released: 2009
- Walk on the Wild Side: Live in New York 1972 released: 2009
- The Best of Lou Reed released: 2009
- Legendary Hearts released: 2009
- Playlist: the Very Best of Lou Reed released: 2008
- Berlin: Live at St Ann's Warehouse released: 2008
- Greatest Hits: Steel Box Collection released: 2008
- Metal Machine Music released: 2007
- Hudson River Wind Meditations released: 2007
- Coney Island Baby released: 2006
- Platinum & Gold Collection released: 2004
- Greatest Hits: NYC Man released: 2004
- Animal Serenade released: 2004
- NYC Man: The Collection released: 2003
- American Poet released: 2001
- Sally Can’t Dance released: 2001
- Metal Machine Music released: 2000
- Rock and Roll Heart released: 2000
- Ecstasy released: 2000
- The Very Best Of released: 1999
- The Definitive Collection released: 1999
- Sessions at West 54th Street released: 1998
- Perfect Night: Live in London released: 1998
- Leave Me Alone released: 1997
- The Masters released: 1997
- 1972-01-29: Le Bataclan, Paris, France released: 1997
- Perfect Day released: 1997
- Live in Italy released: 1996
- Set the Twilight Reeling released: 1996
- Different Times: Lou Reed in the 70s released: 1996
- Live USA released: 1994
- A Retrospective released: 1993
- Small Club in N.Y. released: 1992
- Street Hassle released: 1992
- Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology released: 1992
- Magic and Loss released: 1992
- The Blue Mask released: 1990
- Lou Reed Live released: 1990
- Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed released: 1990
- Retro: Best of Lou Reed released: 1989
- Berlin released: 1989
- New York released: 1989
- Mistrial released: 1986
- Transformer released: 1986
- Historia de la música rock - 27 released: 1982
- Growing Up in Public released: 1980
- The Bells released: 1979
- 1977-05-11: Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA released: 1977
- Walk on the Wild Side & Other Hits released: 1975
- Lou Reed released: 1972
- 2000-04-24: Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany released:
- The Phantom of Rock & Roll released:
- Méér dan het beste van 1972–1986 released:
- Pop Classics released:
- Live Stockholm 1974 released:
- A Vicious Man in Philadelphia Music Centre 1986 released:
- Older Than Yesterday released:
- Century Sessions: Best Of released:
- Legendary released:
- Rock and Roll Diary 1967–1980 released:
- Essential Lou Reed released:
- The Bedroom Tape released:
- The Wild Side released:
- New Sensations released:
- The Raven released:
- Wild Child released:
- Live: Take No Prisoners released:
- Songs for Drella released:
Le Bataclan '72
Released 2014- Waiting for the Man
- Berlin
- Black Angel's Death Song
- Wild Child
- Heroin
- Ghost Story
- The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All
- Empty Bottles
- Femme Fatale
- No One Is There
- Frozen Warnings
- Janitor of Lunacy
- I'll Be Your Mirror
- All Tomorrow's Parties (encore)
- Pale Blue Eyes (rehearsal)
- Candy Says (rehearsal)
Greatest Hits: NYC Man
Released 2004- I'm Waiting for the Man
- White Light / White Heat
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Sweet Jane
- Satellite of Love
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Perfect Day
- Berlin
- Coney Island Baby
- The Blue Mask
- Legendary Hearts
- Dirty Blvd.
- Magic and Loss - The Summation (feat. Mike Rathke)
- NYC Man
- Ecstacy
- Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
- Satellite of Love 2004
- Walk on the Wild Side (Bertallot radio remix)
Magic and Loss
Released 1992- Dorita (The Spirit)
- What’s Good (The Thesis)
- Power and Glory (The Situation)
- Magician (Internally)
- Sword of Damocles (Externally)
- Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
- Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
- Dreamin’ (Escape)
- No Chance (Regret)
- Warrior King (Revenge)
- Harry’s Circumcision (Reverie Gone Astray)
- Gassed and Stoked (Loss)
- Power and Glory, Part II (Magic Transformation)
- Magic and Loss (The Summation)
Older Than Yesterday
- Sweet Jane
- Waiting for the Man
- High in the City
- Down at the Arcade
- Legendary Love
- Fly the Sun
- Turn Out the Light
- My Red Joystick
- Average Guy
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Satellite of Love
- New Sensations
- Sunday Morning
- Doin' the Things That We Want To
- Wave of Fear
- I Love You, Suzanne
- White Light/White Heat
- Introduction / Some Kind of Love
- Rock'n Roll Music
- Kill Your Sons
Essential Lou Reed
- Love Makes You Feel
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Vicious
- Satellite of Love
- How Do You Think It Feels
- Bangin' on My Drum
- Sally Can't Dance
- Kill Your Sons
- A Gift
- Charley's Girl
- You Wear It So Well
- Rock and Roll Heart
- Real Good Time Together
- I Want to Boogie With You
- Women
- Waves of Fear
- Keep Away
- Legendary Hearts
- The Last Shot
- I Love You Suzanne
- My Red Joystick
- No Money Down
The Bedroom Tape
- [conversation]
- [unknown]
- [conversation]
- These Days
- [conversation]
- [conversation]
- Secret Side (a capella)
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- [conversation]
- [Lou tuning]
- [more tuning]
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- [conversation] / [Lou runs through All Tomorrow's Parties]
- All Tomorrow's Parties / [conversation]
- These Days
- [conversation]
- These Days
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- [conversation]
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- [conversation]
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- [conversation] / [playback of the tape Nico's been recording]
- Little Sister
- [conversation]
- Little Sister
- Little Sister
- [conversation]
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- I'll Be Your Mirror
- Femme Fatale
- [conversation]
- [conversation]
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- [conversation]
- I'll Keep It With Mine (false start)
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- [conversation] / [playback of the tape Nico's been recording]
- [Jesse James and other folk songs]
- Little Queenie
- Little Sister
- Little Sister
- [conversation]
- [playback of the tape Nico's been recording] / [conversation]
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- [conversation] / [playback of the tape Nico's been recording]
- All Tomorrow's Parties / Somebody / [conversation]
Wild Child
- Vicious
- Satellite of Love
- Wild Child
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Perfect Day
- New York Telephone Conversation
- White Light/White Heat
- How Do You Think It Feels
- Oh Jim
- Caroline Says II
- Sad Song
- Lady Day
- Metal Machine Music
- Berlin
- Sally Can't Dance
- I Love You Suzanne
- Mistrial
- Legendary Hearts
- Coney Island Baby
Born: 1942-03-02
Died: 2013-10-27
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