Lou Reed News

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The seminar will take place at the 60th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on is recognized as one of the finest songwriters in history and is considered among the most profound influences on modern rock music.

Jo Lawry, Judith Hill and Lisa Fischer are three of the backup singers profiled in the new documentary 20 Feet From Stardom.

The Cleveland Clinic confirmed Tuesday that the 71-year-old rock legend had a liver transplant there early last month.

Rock icon Lou Reed is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant in the U.S., according to an interview with his wife published Saturday in a British newspaper.

An enduring but complicated figure whose shadow stretches back four decades to the very beginnings of the American rock underground, Lou Allen Reed was born on Long Island to a middle-class, suburban family -- a family with whom he soon found himself at odds, as they were unable to accept his unconventional attitudes and sexually ambiguous ... (more)

"I am a triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry," he wrote on his Facebook page .

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson pictured at a dinner in New York in 2011. Photograph: Billy Farrell Agency / Rex Featu Lou Reed , the US songwriter, poet and vocalist with the Velvet Underground, had a liver transplant last month, according to his wife, the musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson.

Select songs by David Bowie , Lou Reed and Talking Heads are among the 13 tracks featured on the soundtrack to the new documentary 20 Feet from Stardom .

Columbia Records will release 20 Feet From Stardom: Music From The Motion Picture, the soundtrack from the compelling new film from award-winning director Morgan Neville on June 18.