‘It was an act of piracy’: Reina Sofía exposes Lou Reed’s plagiarism of Nazario
The Madrid museum revisits how a Spanish underground artist’s work ended up on an album by the US singer, who did not credit the illustrator
Patti Smith, the poet who became a rock legend
Celebrating 50 years of her first album ‘Horses,’ with which she revolutionized music and literature while remaining true to herself
Laurie Anderson is obsessed with resuscitating husband, Lou Reed, with AI
The avant-garde artist frequently converses with a chatbot designed to emulate the former Velvet Underground frontman
Ignacio Julià, the only journalist to make Lou Reed smile
Against the tide of immediacy, the Catalan music critic is committed to long-term radicalism. He recently published and launched a book in New York about his five-decade relationship with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground
Why the ‘70s was the best decade for popular music
It saw the birth of punk, new wave, hip hop, funk and electronic music, as well as the rise of legends like David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elton John and Tom Petty
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