This is what happens to music, art, and even politics after it’s forgotten by society. It loses its shock value, including ...

He's one of the most celebrated songwriters of his generation, but lou Reed rarely wrote anything for anyone but himself.

Barry Keoghan's mom died from a heroin addiction when he was 12. In a new interview, the 'Saltburn' actor, 32, opens up about ...

As of now, the show that’s imprinted on everyone’s mind is his last — the infamous Jane's Addiction date in Boston, on ...

Reed wrote "Sweet Jane," "Heroin" and "Rock and Roll" in the VU ... but if you could bring just one Velvets record and just one Lou Reed record to that mythical desert island, which would they ...

While Reed is clearly brilliant, and despite his drug and alcohol (ab)use a tireless worker and reworker ... it’s hard not to read Lou Reed waiting for Hermes’s next dive into a passage of musical ...

In Lou Reed: The King of New York ... He goes on to write: “After years of trading on her reputation as rock’s goth heroin queen, roughing it on sketchy club tours, and stuffing condom ...

The Lou Reed archive is at the New York Public Library ... where we hear him singing “Heroin” in a folky style reminiscent of Bob Dylan. Fast-forward two years and we get the album version ...

As Ginsberg was something of an amateur photographer and all-around gadfly, there are photos of Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and more among his souvenirs. And because Thomas can’t ...

A hefty biography of Lou Reed is well-timed for an audience now ... At some point during his senior year, he began shooting heroin. The details are murky, but the outcome was real enough: Reed ...

And Lou Reed was its ambiguous sovereign ... in a hotel in Times Square.) Songs like “Heroin,” “I’m Waiting for the Man,” and “Venus in Furs” were celebrated for being more ...