Lou Reed
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 11 years ago |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Died | Amagansett |
New York | |
United States | |
Music groups | The Velvet Underground |
Metal Machine Trio | |
Spouse | Laurie Anderson |
Sylvia Morales | |
Betty Reed | |
Bettye Reed | |
Height | 178 (cm) |
Awards | Grammy Hall of Fame |
Grammy Award for Best Music Film | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Date of birth | March 2,1942 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Groups | The Velvet Underground |
Metal Machine Trio | |
The Conspirators | |
Songs | Walk On The Wild SideTransformer · 1972 I'm Sticking With YouThe Velvet Underground · 1969 Perfect DayTransformer · 1972 View 25+ more |
Albums | Transformer |
New York | |
Berlin | |
List | Walk On The Wild SideTransformer · 1972 |
Perfect DayTransformer · 1972 | |
Satellite Of LoveTransformer · 1972 | |
Date of died | October 27,2013 |
Influences | Doc Pomus |
William S. Burroughs | |
Jack Smith | |
Skos genre | Rock |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 409759 |
Blue in the Face
Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
Rock & Rule
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
Faraway, So Close!
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
Get Crazy
Prozac Nation
One-Trick Pony
Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart
Beautiful Darling
Permanent Record
Red Shirley
Lulu on the Bridge
Hedy
About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now
The Summit - Performing G20
Hubert Selby Jr. : It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The Velvet Underground: Under Review
September Songs - The Music of Kurt Weill
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 2
MindFlux
A Night with Lou Reed
Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux Live MCMXCIII
Le Dernier Jour
Lou Reed: Spanish Fly: Live in Spain
The 99 Percent: Occupy Everywhere
Lou Reed Life story
Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band The Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
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Iggy Pop has 'finally got the voice I was supposed to have'
"Sweeeet Caroline . . "
The broken-glass mixed with sand tones of bona fide Punk Rock legend Iggy Pop are crooning a cover of Neil Diamond to an audience of one.
How did this happen?
As it turns out, it's the fault of his ex father-in-law. .
"You know, I finally got The Voice that I was supposed to have in some senses. When I was 21, I was in love with a girl from Cleveland and we actually got married for a couple of weeks," he explains.
"I had just put out The First Stooges Album and I met her dad, he was a big shot in business. He said, 'Well, meeting and listening to You talk I guess You probably sing like Neil Diamond right?'
"I've since learned a lot of respect for Neil but at that time, You don't tell Iggy Pop that he sounds like Neil Diamond . But on The Other hand, a part of me was thinking, 'Damn, if I sang like Neil Diamond , I'd have a lot more money You know'. "
The one-time Stooges frontman is in the UK to promote his new Album Free, an Album he has co-written with musician/composer Leron Thomas and film-maker/composer Sarah Lipstate , best known for her solo Electric Guitar project Noveller.
It's a jazz-heavy introspective musing on subjects like mortality, love and sex and even features Iggy reciting poetry from Dylan Thomas .
Iggy recorded the new LP after two separate tours of his previous Album , the Josh Homme-produced Post Pop Depression, His Best performing solo Album to date And One which took him on The Road with Queens of The Stone Age frontman Homme and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders , including several shows at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
"I felt a little drained," he says of the end of The Tour .
"As You mature, physically, when You get past 60 if You 're still active, it's a good idea to put more of your efforts into mental work and less into physical work. "
They might sound like surprising words from Iggy, the shirtless Peter Pan of rock who has outlived most of his musical contemporaries such as David Bowie and Lou Reed .
"The PPD record was something where I showed up in the desert and lived with a bunch of guys for weeks and weeks and weeks," he says. "In the studio, All Together , sweaty, smelly, dusty, picking a booger, whatever, singing when it was my turn, that sort of thing for six, eight weeks. That's gruelling. "
The new Album by comparison was largely recorded, says Iggy, "by email".
"It was not as physically exhausting, it was emotionally a full effort, though," he adds.
The Album opens with Free, a sparse piece of instrumentation in which Iggy intones the phrase "I want to be free". Free of what though? The trappings of fame? The constrictions of age? Life Itself ?
He won't be drawn on the specifics for fear of "explaining it to death or personalising it so that Somebody Else can't get into it in their own way".
"I can't get too personal without screwing it up for everybody. "
Jazz horns and drum beats flow through the new Album , from The Beautiful sweeping nature of new single Sonali to The Horn solos on The Album 's lighter moments like the tongue-in-cheek James Bond and the gloriously profane Dirty Sanchez.
Iggy's collaborator Thomas is an acclaimed Texas-born trumpeter, oft-praised for the way he crosses genres like Hip Hop , soul and funk. Iggy says his love of jazz goes back to childhood and has influenced his own career, referencing Little Doll from The Stooges ' debut Album - which, he claims, was an attempt to "rewrite" by free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders and singer Leon Thomas .
"When I was a Little Boy , my dad would have a Charlie Burnett record on," says Iggy. "Even Dave Brubeck , when You 're 16 years-old and You hear, that's Pretty Cool , You know, so I always liked it. "
Iggy's meditations on mortality come through on tracks like The Album 's closing piece The Dawn and the Spoken Word Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night , a reading of Dylan Thomas 's 1951 poem.
We Are The People was written by Iggy's friend, the late Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed .
The Thomas reading was initially recorded for a British ad firm, but Iggy felt it would fit well into the new record's themes while the latter was only.
We are the people without Land / We are the people without Tradition . .
We are the people without sorrow who have moved beyond national pride and indifference to a parody of Instinct / We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion because it defies thought / We are the people who conceive our destruction and carry it out lawfully
"That totally resonated with me," says Iggy. "Like, 'wham', like 'pow'. It was The First poem in a book of lyrics and when I saw it, I thought, 'My God, this is the country today as I understand it, or at least one legitimate portrayal of the country today. It really spoke to me. "
With his slender frame, all-year round golden Miami tan and shoulder length blonde locks, at the age of 72, Pop is one of music's great survivors.
It is against The Odds following A Life of excess, at least before he discovered the benefits of clean living. Many friends and all of his original bandmates have passed away and this year marks 50 Years since the release of The Stooges ' debut Album .
Loathed by critics and music fans alike, in the ensuing decades it's been re-evaluated as a milestone in American Music , a precursor to Punk Rock And One of The Most influential records of all time.
"Once You get into showbusiness, You require minions, so they all have their own ideas about what to do to mark this splendid event," says Iggy. "I had a very talented and powerful minion who wanted to rent Madison Square Garden and get a bunch of bands who'd been influenced by me and hold a big party.
"I didn't want to do that because I haven't been at it 50 Years alone. It's a more delicate thing. Other people will mention it, and it's true, I was the vocalist and lyricist and wrote some of The Music on That Album . "
Instead, Iggy has put his name to a new book of lyrics spanning his six decades in music. Delving through old photos and being asked to come up with memories for each of those decades put him in a reflective mood, which undoubtedly informed the new Album .
"There I Am looking at pictures of my whole history," he explains. "They're asking me to write one set of notes for each decade and Suddenly You 're thinking in those terms. A lot of your colleagues and contemporaries have passed away. So there's that. And Then there's constant responsibility to do what I can to resemble oneself as one gets older.
The earlier decades, he chuckles, "were easier".
"And Then when You get to the 80s, it made me really grumpy. And by the time You get to The 2000S , it was Somewhere Between ironic and, 'Oh, [bleep] off'. I think I said something like, 'I crawled out of The Dark hole of misery into the limelight of love and acceptance'. "
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