From the Lou Reed Archive, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.. Courtesy of Canal Street Communications, Inc © 2022 Canal Street Communications Inc
HE WORDS, STILL SO BOLD and transgressive after all these years, are instantly familiar. “When I put the spike into my vein, then you know that things aren’t quite the same…”; “I’m waiting for the man, 26 dollars in my hand…”; and, displaying the rather more tender side Lou Reed did his best to suppress but which always bubbled up sooner or later, “Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad…” ➢
Rock’n’roll animals: The Primitives in 1965 (from left) Tony Conrad, Walter De Maria, Lou Reed, John Cale.
