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Lou Reed

Lou Reed - Musician - 1975 - Sydney

The “single most untalented” person in music, according to Lou Reed

Don’t hold back, Lou.

Tom Taylor
Oct 21, 2025
Talking Heads - David Byrne - Tine Weymouth - Chris Frantz - Jerry Harrison

The album Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz fell in love with “from the first listen”

“Marvellous.”

Kelly Murphy
Oct 20, 2025
Mark Ruffalo - 2024 - Actor - Oscars

Mark Ruffalo’s five favourite songs of all time

Featuring plenty of angst-ridden male singers

Tim Bradley
Oct 20, 2025
Lou Reed - Musician - 1975 - Sydney

The artists Lou Reed called musical heroes: “I love the way those guys play”

“Just my God!”

Ben Forrest
Oct 16, 2025
Lou Reed - 1974

The bands Lou Reed said were making nothing new: “It’s very hard to understand the words”

A misunderstanding.

Callum MacHattie
Oct 14, 2025
The Velvet Underground - Frank Zappa - Split

The one Velvet Underground song that Frank Zappa actually liked

“…he can’t play rock ‘n’ roll, because he’s a loser”.

Tom Phelan
Oct 11, 2025
Lou Reed - Musician - 2000s - Guitarist

“Painfully stupid”: The band that represented everything Lou Reed hated about classic rock

Bitter or believable?

Tom Taylor
Oct 10, 2025
Lou Reed - Musician - 1997

The four people Lou Reed wanted to go down in history with: “Feels like the truth” 

Simple but effective.

Dale Maplethorpe
Oct 8, 2025
Lou Reed - Neil Young - Far Out Magazine

The Neil Young song so good it made Lou Reed cry: “The best I have heard”

Brilliant.

Arun Starkey
Oct 7, 2025
Lou Reed - Musician - 2000s

The Velvet Underground song that became Lou Reed’s musical albatross: “I would never be as good”

The pinnacle?

Dale Maplethorpe
Oct 6, 2025
The 10 kinkiest rock songs of all time

The 10 kinkiest rock songs of all time

Things are getting steamy.

Lauren Hunter
Oct 4, 2025
Lou Reed - Leonard Cohen - Split

Lou Reed felt “lucky to be alive” to witness Leonard Cohen

Two of the all time greats.

Ben Forrest
Oct 3, 2025

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