Tag: Lou Reed

• Strange life of a doomed groupie

  

  In New York, Nico hung out with Andy Warhol, who made her the lead singer on three tracks of the debut album he produced for Lou Reed’s The Velvet Underground.

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  July 14, 2021

  FAMOUS GROUPIES

  Alain Delon, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Christa Paffgen, Coco Chanel, Federico Fellini, Jeanne Moreau, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Nico, The Velvet Underground

• The Dostoyevski of Rock

  

  Lou Reed saw rock music as dark literature. “Let’s take Crime and Punishment,” he said, “and turn it into a rock and roll song.“

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  October 26, 2020

  ROCK STAR MEMORIAM

  ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Hubert Selby Jr., Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, William S. Burroughs