One of the messiest Lou Reed songs he ever wrote, 'Pale Blue Eyes' instead showed a man whose pain formed a large aspect of his cool exterior.

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

I tried to evade it but it’s impossible,” joked David Bowie on turning 50. A day after celebrating his 50th birthday quietly with friends and family on January 8, Bowie held a star-studded birthday ...

Much has been said of what The Velvet Underground brought to the world in terms of music, but not as much has been stated about the shape of the music itself.

Two years before Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”, a British band introduced the world to a gender-fluid heroine. Brothers ...

but everyone who bought it formed a band." The saying summarises the profound influence of The Velvet Underground, which included songwriter Lou Reed, guitarist Sterling Morrison, Welsh musician ...

With so much music and 40 years of groundbreaking work, there are bound to be classic Metallica songs hiding in plain sight. The heavy metal legends became one of the best-selling bands in history by ...

Lou Reed now has two, too ... struggles a bit with “I’m Waiting For The Man,” though the band, who sound not unlike Reed’s ...