Why was the Velvet Underground so controversial? We look at the Andy Warhol connection, the band's influence and how Sterling ...

What happened to the members of The Velvet Underground? Sterling Morrison quit the band and launched a new life in Texas. His ...

If you're like me, when you think of Lou Reed, you think of his seminal band the Velvet Underground first and foremost. There's a good reason for that. The Velvet Underground is among the greatest ...

The Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed lived a wild life. One crazy night in London, an unlikely cult hero became his drug ...

The Velvet Underground are one of the 20th century ... The original lineup led by Lou Reed (which saw a couple of changes before the band broke up in the early ‘70s) made only four albums ...

Lou Reed selects the greatest-ever songs to be produced by his beloved home city of New York, highlighting its musical history and cultural significance.

These three famous rock stars were heavily influenced by jazz, and even diehard fans may not know how deep that influence ...

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.

In the present work, the artists appears lying on his back, his eyes mostly closed, dreamingly listening to a walkman that plays, a recording of 'The Best of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground'.

In an interview with The New Cue last year, for example, he recalled his encounters with Lou Reed in the early 70s, unwittingly becoming his supplier of hash. “I was a big Velvet Underground fan ...

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island ... and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s with multi-instrumentalist John Cale ...