Lou Reed, who grew up in Freeport and was best known for his influential work with the Velvet Underground and solo material including "Walk on the Wild Side," died Sunday in Southampton. He was 71.

In his defense, the band had been splitting apart piece by piece for several years at that point. Producer/manager Andy Warhol was fired by Reed after just one album together, their 1967 debut The ...

Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a songwriter for hire at a company called Pickwick Records. He churned out ...

Lou Reed, the guitarist, songwriter and founder of art-rock pioneers the Velvet Underground, was a quintessential New Yorker. When he died in 2013, his widow, the multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nirvana’s 10 Best Cover Songs Keith Richards’ cover of the Velvet Underground’s iconic “I’m Waiting for the Man” leads the ...

(Reuters) - Lou Reed, whose band the Velvet Underground became one of the most influential in rock by fusing art and music in collaboration with artist Andy Warhol in 1960s New York, died on Sunday at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Richards - Credit: Sven Hoogerhuis/BSR Agency/Getty Images Keith Richards takes on the Velvet Underground’s classic “I’m ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed ...

As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of Velvet Underground classics recorded in 1965, along with several songs ...

Higgins' Lou Reed / Velvet Underground passion project is published In his new book, 'Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground,' Milwaukee's Jim Higgins does a deep ...

Lou Reed has died at the age of 71. The legendary singer, a founding member of The Velvet Underground, was one of the most influential rock musicians of the past 50 years. He passed away on Sunday ...