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Category Archives: Velvet Underground, The
More Album Cover Outtakes
The album cover image for Lou Reed’s New York was based conceptually on a 1932 Brassai photograph of a Parisian gang standing in an alley, called “La bande du grand Albert”. The cover for Lou Reed’s iconic New York (1989) … Continue reading
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Lou Reed | I’m So Free – The 1971 RCA Demos
Fifty years on from his self-titled solo debut album, and nine years since his untimely death, Lou Reed is still nabbing headlines with a collection of rare demos released over the holidays and just as quickly withdrawn in an apparent … Continue reading
Top 5 Songs – Robert Quine
Robert Quine’s steady session work with a wide range of musicians created an individual vocabulary as crucial as any guitarist in rock. The Press counts down the American guitarist’s Top 5 Songs. Emerging in the New York punk scene in … Continue reading
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More Album Cover Outtakes
Never before had Lou Reed seemed so approachable and joyful as he did on 1984’s New Sensations, an album that cast him in a new light without losing any of what has made him an icon. New Sensations may not … Continue reading
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David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie’s first ready-made classic finds the supreme shape-shifter eagerly anticipating the raunchy camp swagger of the impending Ziggy Stardust phenomenon. Released on this day in 1971. The transitional Hunky Dory was recorded at Soho’s Trident Studios in London with … Continue reading
#14: Lou Reed | Rock n Roll Animal (1974) / Live (1975)
Here at The Press we look at expansive double albums and trim it back to a single, filler-free listening experience. In the case of Lou Reed’s scary ’73 glam-phetamine performance, brashly released as two single live LPs in the mid-70s, … Continue reading
Rediscover Live Music: Top 20 Live Albums
Live music has been in short supply, so now is a good time to take a double-gatefold look at 20 of the greatest live LP’s of yesteryear to atone for all the cancelled gigs we were supposed to see. What … Continue reading
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Bowie’s Pin Ups
Two Hours Of ‘Original’ Songs David Bowie Covered In His Early Career. In a very special episode of Beat Orgy, RRR’s Steve Cross takes us through the original versions of the songs that David Bowie covered through his golden period … Continue reading
Lou Reed – Street Hassle
Lou Reed left us on this day seven years ago so today is as good a day as any to celebrate one of the man’s finest works. Reed’s influence as a solo artist and leader of the now canonised Velvet … Continue reading