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

Velvet Underground & Nico is above all else an epic album about the heroin lifestyle and all it encompasses on a sensory and experiential level. No doubt, Lou Reed’s iconic song “Heroin ...

Light in the Attic Records has released another tantalizing piece of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground lore in the form of the earliest known recording of the song “Heroin.” The track will ...

2022 marks nine years since Lou Reed’s passing ... demo of what will become the beloved Velvet Underground hit “Heroin.” The original is known for the slowly creeping guitar and rushing ...

Next month, the reissue label Light In The Attic is releasing some of Lou Reed’s earliest demos as ... eventual Velvet Underground classic, “Heroin.” As Spin points out, this version is ...

And for a lot of the rest of his life, people would always preface Lou Reed's career by saying 'the man who wrote and recorded "Heroin."' "One of the musical things about 'Heroin' that nobody else ...

A previously unreleased May 1965 demo of Lou Reed's "Heroin" has been shared from Words & Music, May 1965, the first release from the new Lou Reed archive series. Words & Music, May 1965 was announced ...

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 ...

Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative musicians the rock world has known, releasing songs about heroin abuse and sadomasochism on his very first album (“The Velvet Underground ...

“Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars ... the tape’s versions of “I’m Waiting for the Man,” “Pale Blue Eyes” and “Heroin” are miles away from the explosive sound the ...

Lou Reed strode onto the stage at Max’s Kansas ... He introduced “I’m Waiting for the Man,” a heroin addict’s codependent lament to his dealer, as “a tender folk song from the early ...