Lou Reed News
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Crillon, the 100-year-old hotel that housed General Eisenhower after the Liberation of Paris, is auctioning off almost everything, from beds and curtains to 2,000 bottles of wine and doormen’s uniforms.
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Lou Reed is getting back to the 1960s on his latest tour. He is revisiting songs by his former band the Velvet Underground, snarling out cautionary tales of drug-taking and sadomasochism.
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New Jersey pulled off a fundraising hat trick in Manhattan last night, and then some.
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The cover gives little away. The blood-red title “Lulu” is smeared across a dismembered mannequin. A small sticker says “Lou Reed & Metallica.”
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London is entering the final lap of Olympic hysteria. For those left without tickets, BT London Live has screens in Hyde Park, Victoria Park and Trafalgar Square.
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Pink turns somersaults suspended high above the crowd. The boys in One Direction cause multiple teenage meltdowns. Bruno Mars exudes greeting-card sentiment and clothing-catalog smiles.
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Mick Rock smiles as he flips through his photographs. Pointing to one of Kate Moss , he says “Wow.”
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Meltdown, one of London’s cooler festivals, raises the stakes with a stellar roster this year: Lou Reed and his other half Laurie Anderson are joined by Diamanda Galas, Marc Almond and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Dutch Internet providers Ziggo BV and XS4ALL must block access to the Pirate Bay file-sharing website, a Dutch court ruled.
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Abbott Laboratories sued Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court for allegedly infringing two patents for its Niaspan cholesterol drug.
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