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Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades. Though the Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era. As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including sexuality and drug culture.
After his departure from the group, Reed began a solo career in 1971. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", although he subsequently lacked the mainstream commercial success its chart status seemed to indicate. Reed's work as a solo artist frustrated critics wishing for a return of the Velvet Underground. In 1975, Reed released a double album of feedback loops, Metal Machine Music, upon which he later commented, "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."
Actors: Johnny Galecki (actor), Rupert Grint (actor), Freddy Rodríguez (actor), Joel David Moore (actor), Bradley Whitford (actor), Tom Nowicki (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Donal Logue (actor), Paul Giorgi (miscellaneous crew), Estelle Harris (actress), Malin Akerman (actress), Randall Miller (producer), Randall Miller (director), Randall Miller (writer), Justin Bartha (actor),
Plot: CBGB follows the story of Hilly Kristal's New York club from its conceit as a venue for Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock 'n roll and punk. When Kristal had difficulty booking country bands in his club on the Bowery he opened his doors to other kinds of rock music. Kristal had one demand of the acts he booked; they could only play original music. No top 40's, no covers. It was the credo he lived by, support the artist at whatever the cost. Hilly Kristal ironically became known as the godfather of punk giving a chance to such bands as Blondie, Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys and The Police.
Genres: Drama, Music,Actors: Colleen Camp (actress), Grant James (actor), Guy Pearce (actor), Don Novello (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), George Plimpton (actor), James Naughton (actor), George Hickenlooper (actor), Jeff Galpin (actor), Joel Michaely (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Hayden Christensen (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Beth Grant (actress), Illeana Douglas (actress),
Plot: A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, accidental-fire, accountant, actor's-life, actress, adultery, aires, airplane, alice-in-wonderland-statueActors: Michelle Williams (actress), Danny Dimbort (producer), Christina Ricci (actress), Jessica Lange (actress), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Chiara Zanni (actress), Anne Heche (actress), Lou Reed (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor), Ian Tracey (actor), Jason Biggs (actor), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor), Jesse Moss (actor), Christina Ricci (producer), Avi Lerner (producer),
Plot: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a teenager accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother Mrs. Wurtzel since she was two years old, but she misses her father and feels needy and depressive. When she joins the university, she lives with a roommate Ruby and has her sexual initiation with Noah. Her article for the local column in Crimson newspaper is awarded by Rolling Stone magazine. Lizzie becomes abusive in sex and drugs, and her existential crisis and depression increases and she hurts her friends and her mother that love her, while dating Rafe. Mrs. Wurtzel sends her to an expensive psychiatric treatment with Dr. Sterling, in spite of having difficulties paying for her medical bills and therapy sessions. After a long period of treatment under medication, and suicide attempt, Lizzie stabilizes and adjusts to the real world.
Keywords: acting-out, airplane, airport, all-nighter, anger, anti-depressant, anxiety, apology, argument, austin-texasAll your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock
They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad
Instead of mental hospital
But everytime you tried to read a book
You couldn't get to page 17
'Cause you forgot, where you were
So you couldn't even read
Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
They're gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run run run run run run run run away
Mom informed me on the phone
She didn't know what to do about dad
Took an axe and broke the table
Aren't you glad you're married
And sister, she got married on the island
And her husband takes the train
He's big and he's fat and he doesn't even have a brain
They're gonna kill your sons
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run away
Creedmore treated me very good
But Paine Whitney was even better
And when I flipped on PHC
I was so sad I didn't even get a letter
All of the drugs, that we took, it really was lots of fun
But when they shoot you up with thorizene on crystal smoke
You choke like a son of a gun
Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
They're gonna kill, kill your sons