RIP Lou you were an absolute genius of a musician...

Lou was always honest and straight forward..Man we could use that today..

@dildoit

Жыл бұрын

One of my best friends, i never met

Great songwriter; great music maker; great guy. Miss you Lou!

@hossesarse

5 ай бұрын

No. Just no.

ah yes " tai chi and the Joy of Living " that's exactly what comes to mind when I see you, Lou, you just radiate happiness

@grayelizabeth6458

7 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA YES

Gotta hand it to the interviewer, she did a pretty good job. Lou Reed certainly isn't the easiest person to interview by a long shot!

@Alexandru9883

3 жыл бұрын

I miss him.

@user-zi1kl4zf4g

3 жыл бұрын

Bloody oath she did

@lastnamefirst4035

3 жыл бұрын

He has always been an insecure arrogant guy

@savanaviolenta

3 жыл бұрын

Try John Lydon

@user-zi1kl4zf4g

3 жыл бұрын

@@savanaviolenta Mr John

I love Lou. He takes no shit and speaks his mind truthfully.

@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696

6 жыл бұрын

outshined its easy to fuck with reporters its stupid. I haven't heard him say anything too often that is really amazing.

@II-xl7lj

3 жыл бұрын

@@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696 What are you talking about, imbecile?

@kirby711

3 жыл бұрын

@@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696 obviously you are not a Lou fan or u don't listen to the lyrics he wrote Maybe you should listen to Pale Blue Eyes or waiting for my man and Lou's genius will come through ✌

@lusio7182

3 жыл бұрын

truthfully? he's actually an irony machine lol

@natelivas3961

3 жыл бұрын

He also gave a lot of shit

I can't argue with an idiot, it's like talking to a squirrel lol 😂

I love you Lou Reed, I send you lots of Love brother... God bless you.

very expressive. I love Lou. Very generous.

He's very generous about the people he works with who he admires.

The sobriety question!! Hahaha … I swear I laugh more watching some Lou interviews than I do most stand up comedy.

@FreeBrunoPowroznik

3 жыл бұрын

@barrett402 Yeah, drop it!

"You're doing okay. Beautiful and in shape." The ole charmer...

"It's like talking to a squirrel"

he's definitely not a social media type RIP

He is actually talking in full sentences during an interview.

Interviewer sounds nervous, occasionally terrified.

@acohen1980

7 жыл бұрын

why would she be terrified by a lightweight?

@mistermax3034

3 жыл бұрын

@@acohen1980 Trolling?

@v-town1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@acohen1980 a lightweight?! Bitch, you have no clue.

Thank you, Sydney Festival

Wonderful interview!

Lou always tells a lot of jokes in his interviews but his interviewers always take him face value

@julierosenfeld6573

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. They aren't bright enough to realise that. He's always on the verge of smiling when he makes a wise crack. And interviewers are like deer in the headlights. They're unable to process his comments.

@ryanjacobson2508

8 ай бұрын

He was an OG troll.

@patokev3691

Ай бұрын

I love Reed but he's a dickhead here and alot of other times.

@andrewmiddleton1762

21 күн бұрын

Yeh, early on Lou told a whole string of jokes - the interviewer didn't seem to get any of them - and Lou just looks forward at the person presenting themselves to him, wondering.

Wow, I love you Lou. Thank you for the gift.

wow...reed is almost gushingly polite

he's a very genuine person

The interviewer can forever brag about the fact that Lou Reed told her he loved her!

Wow - is all I can say. I really liked this interview. I found it affirming.

How many times can one interviewer go, "hmmmm?" With this one, it's limitless.

@julierosenfeld6573

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. Annoying isn't it?

I thank God, I walked the Earth the same time as Lou Reed.

I love Lou Reed. But,thé life is so bad bécasse you are not heure today. Thanks Mister Lou Reed for your song. Excuse me for my bad english but I’m french.

Well he’s full of the joys of spring !

Berlin was one of the monuments of music in my life. Spent a summer riding around drinking premixed screwdrivers and ……. There’s a special beauty in this and albums like tonight’s the night

It’s like talking to a squirrel! 😂 ❤️U Lou wherever u are dude

OK I like to think I've got pretty good people skills but I would never ever even attempt this. I have to actually take my hat off to this interviewer for her valiant attempt. Lou Reed is terrifying, I would crumble into a thousand pieces trying to keep this interview going with him. Had to stop half way through, I was exhausted! Literally like pulling teeth.

@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Dixon just ask about the music. Thats what they dont do and they dont ask about guitars or how they capture sound , they ask shit that youll never get a great answer on.

@computerfis

6 жыл бұрын

If the interviewer just said, 'I don't know anything about shakesphire, what the fuck are you talking about?'. 'What made you go into the music job anyway?' But the interviewer didn't.

@motowngirl5891

5 жыл бұрын

Greg Dixon she is BRAVE!!

@lucid685

2 жыл бұрын

He didnt respond well to nervous or pompous. Just be genuine and he seems fine (unless hes in a tempermental mood in which case nothing will work). She seemed fine to me. Its his manager that asks for a part to be dropped not lou

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

He actually thinks he is a musical genius ......it's called delusions of Grandeur . Leads him to act like a prima donna.

Lou is such a stoic person to interview,one of the most difficult people to interview.He seems to be so controversial in his answers…not a happy man.Don’t get me wrong I love his music.Tracy will never forget this interview.

15:45 Ooh. She has barely started asking her question, and you can already see Lou suddenly getting pissed off, his lips tightening up; he's been around the track enough times to see it coming a mile away and as nice as the interview has been going so far I can hear him muttering to himself, "oh, for Christ's sake..." This girl seemed fairly well-prepared compared to most of the idiots who've talked with him, so she should have known full well not to tread there. It's a little chilling to watch.

@francoissalemi4895

6 жыл бұрын

I CHANGE MY MIND SO PURE SIMPLE LIKE HÉRO STRANGE BIG SUBJECT I'M NOT HOMO BUT HE'S SO CALM NOTHING UNUSFULL

@robertseepers2847

6 жыл бұрын

Tracy who I wonder... She was indeed well prepared, and she was scared shitless - and she still won him over, sort of - very courageously done; great interview.

@aw2367

4 жыл бұрын

moogyboy6 I think he’s joking around with her as he subtlety does in a lot of interviews but the they’re always so nervous they don’t know how to take him, I love watching it, especially how he asks questions and tries to get them to say their opinion too. And feels like if they’re gonna interview him they should be smart enough to know what he’s talking about from Prussia to life in the Congo

@kevinherbert4256

3 жыл бұрын

he's an idiot...a fraud....

@julierosenfeld6573

2 жыл бұрын

Kevin you poor thing.

Lou had a very rocky relationship with the Australian media LOL...he seemed pretty chill here

He's was a serious guy - but better behaved here than in many other interviews.

take note at 17:25, where Lou's publicist asks the interviewer (post interview) "so you're not going to do anything about that Sobriety thing, are you?" and Tracy the interviewer says "we can drop it", and the publicist replies back:" yeah, drop it", to which all parties agree. This is an interesting dynamic, which supports Lou's desire to keep his personal life personal. His friend David Bowie was from the same mold as you watch interview after interview to gain insight into the world in which they lived. Fascinating to watch. It's also around this time, that Lou had a Liver transplant done at The Cleveland Clinic. Lou always had a "salty" personality toward interviewers, but it makes me wonder how much of this was his actual discomfort level. You can see at the very end as Lou walks out after the interview, a distended abdomen, which could be a direct result of his liver failing.

@motowngirl5891

5 жыл бұрын

cyberopbug yes you can see how his midsection is protruding, liver cancer

@turmelmark

4 жыл бұрын

@@motowngirl5891 Lou had hepatitis C for 30 yrs. It makes one VERY tired, non-energetic, gradually wears one out; it does a job on the liver. Especially if one drinks and/or uses drugs.We know he quit drinking in early 80's.There was no cure even 10 years ago. Interferon was used before that but it was not always successful, Lou then became so unhealthy that he chose to get a liver transplant. 100,000$ operation that has big risks. He was fine only a short while and then his body rejected it. I hope you enjoy his music as I do.

@motowngirl5891

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Turmel I know all that, I have known people who have had this disease

@motowngirl5891

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Turmel I have been a fan since he first came on the scene on the mid 1960's

Rage is a music video program televised in Australia broadcast nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It airs overnight on Friday and Saturday nights

@LuannOsbourne

10 жыл бұрын

that's true

He never suffered fools and was always one step ahead of them all.

@gregdixon0411

9 жыл бұрын

I don't think he suffers anyone!

@hellobonappetit1657

6 жыл бұрын

i think he was up his own bum

@octagonseventynine1253

6 жыл бұрын

I disagree. Lou was just an asshole. I love his music but he was a cantankerous prick.

@II-xl7lj

3 жыл бұрын

@@octagonseventynine1253 asshole is your mother, whereas he a hell genius that fools like you don't understand

@kevinherbert4256

3 жыл бұрын

he's a fraud...an veritable plastic Bertrand...ha ha ha

Love you so much, Lou. Wish I was born a bit earlier so I could have seen you live

Lou will listen to you till the very end.

A really special, special person. R.I.P.

Lou looks shell shocked and like his thoughts are really somewhere else. His strong reaction to the sobriety question. A poignant time perhaps. x

Great interview. Thanks! Lou strikes me as being very jet lagged but still very coherent and elequent. I wonder if he was having liver issues at this point.

@MelBee128

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he did have some kind of liver trouble since he had contracted the Hep C many years before this.

"The people are incredibly nice, always." hahahahahahahahahahhahaahahah

Great interview. Hard to believe it took 30 years to stage Berlin. A great piece of work.

@hossesarse

5 ай бұрын

Nope. Just an @$$#0l3 and talentless hack to who had access to top-tier studio men. Lou is the male equivalent of Yoko Ono.

'Why did you leave out people who like goats??"-Lou never suffered fools lightly-god bless

i love how lou sets boundaries

Yup, you can tell Lou did NOT care about this interview, lmao. Rock on, Legend, wherever you are.

I miss you, Lou

I miss this man...the legend

I’m french girl,so excuse me for my bad english. You miss me dear Lou

I imagine the interviewer (and anyone else) would shit themselves when copping Reed's 'don't fuck with me' stare down. Reed is in total control all throughout this interview, and I admire the way he is so cool when the interviewer goes out of bounds. He could tell them to fuck off and leave the interview, but he stays seated and calmly stops the interviewers attempt directly and in a polite and respectful manner. He seems to know himself, perhaps that's why he's so cool and in control. RIP Lou Reed

@Strokwor

2 жыл бұрын

Polite and respectful could be argued against in a way but yeah, at least he's cool as a cucumber. Shows where the boundary is and bodies her attempt. But he's not very polite and not very respectful, towards others that is, everything's on his terms.

You have to see it from Lou's point of view, god my 1000th interview with the same questions has things really not changed that much at all, well then i will give short answers that end the question, "god that stupid, it's like talking to a squirrel" funny, and your absolutely right lou

This interview makes me a little sad because I know he only has 6 more years to live.

I love you Lou!

LOU REED IS VERY, VERY MISSED!!⚘

I photographed Lou Reed in 2007 when he was invited to Australia by Fergus Linehan to perform at the State Theatre as part of the annual Sydney Festival. I photographed John Cale at the Enmore Theatre around the same time. I now suspect Lou may have already been ill by this time (2007), although he lived for another six years. I later moved to Detroit. Iggy Pop was from a town called Ypsilanti, not Detroit proper, but it isn't too far from Detroit. Iggy didn't mind having a laugh and 'taking the mickey' during interviews, so it was nice to see Lou also being receptive to interviewers here (2007), unlike his 1974-75 interviews on tour. It makes for a more interesting and insightful look at the artist in question. Sure, interviewers ask stupid questions, and Tracy did in this ABC interview, but Lou was still fairly accommodating. I mean, some interviewers don't even prepare properly or know next to nothing about the people they're interviewing. You might get away with that at a press conference, but not in a one-on-one interview situation. People should've asked Lou more about New York City, the town he's always been so associated with. It has become much safer, but it has also become so gentrified and expensive. Detroit's still unsafe, but that too is getting expensive - at least in the small number of reasonably safe neighbourhoods - Downtown Detroit, Midtown, Woodbridge, Corktown, the Cass Corridor. Rents have skyrocketed in recent years in those areas, while the rest of Detroit is still blighted and deadly.

This is painful.

Another relaxed conversation with Lou.

"The only thing we have left to fear is fear itself" - Lou Reed

I dont blame lou for not wanting to talk about either sobriety or drug use. That shits personal, obviously the guy was an old man. Let the 60’s and 70’s be a part of the past, the man was there to talk about his art.

Classic album

5:40 That was so "gothic" and badass. Hahaha

I do not blame him for being hard on interviewers. It is truly astonishing how inept some journalists are. Mind boggling how well he handled this.

@hellobonappetit1657

6 жыл бұрын

who r u sir?...the girl did an alright job. Actually thats an OK interview so I dunno what you;re on about

She did well with Lou, remember by 2007 he’d been shat on by loads of journalists who didn’t understand his work until 30 years after it came out. Lou is the best and will always be

@johnnydignam9821

Жыл бұрын

This is so true!

@erickh6587

9 ай бұрын

His stuff was already being praised in the 70s dude what are you talking about?

"Arguing with idiots is like talking to a squirrel"!!!

His eyes are kinda....off. His stare is sad.... That's what I can see, I am I wrong?

@justmadeit2

10 жыл бұрын

I heard that he had depression. His eyes look sad. Depression is hell, ive made some videos of my experience of depression, there is also 1 whole folder on my channel about understanding depression. It is in the playlist part of my channel if anyone wants to check it out and can relate to them, or can get something from them ? Over 400 videos. Thanks

@JohnJohnerson

10 жыл бұрын

He also said that he despises journalists and probably doesn't care much for interviews. The man always has his dry sense of humor going as well

@LuannOsbourne

10 жыл бұрын

best brit pop king ever

@user-kk5kr5ys6i

10 жыл бұрын

No, I see it, too. I think he is a melancholic.

@joegaul3589

10 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think it's really the reflection to his music, and sort of dark side his songs have...depression's one side, but maybe it was just how he chose to be, to make his music HIS. Just my opinion, but RIP Mr. Lou Reed. The Songwriting/Rock Music World's lost one of it's greatest.

For light relief after enduring this train wreck go to "Lou Reed '74 Australia Funniest Press Conference EVER & Wild side + Rock 'n Roll" video which is extremely hilarious :) the difference being that he got off the drugs (which we dare not speak of) unfortunately; much more agreeable guy back then, and retained his sense of humour. I still love ya Lou!

I love Mr reed....

When people make comments about Lou Reed's music they do not know what they are talking about! Sometimes you have to talk about the dark side of society and it is not all sweetness and light like people expect! Their has to be dark before light! I think that was a record by Lou Reed as well! People need to grow up and realise what people go through! Peter Hardy, Southport, 49 Years of Age

Are all his interviews done in Sydney?

Anyone else notice how much Lou resembled Jerry Lewis?

@Slothrop67

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Their mannerisms are similar. I would never want to interview either one. Neither ever suffered fools gladly.

@grossy25

Жыл бұрын

Almost eerily similar.

At 15:54 I laughed so hard because right there he shot her down. Apparently he only agree'd to be asked the questions that had been submitted and like any twit interviewer that always has to get to the substance abuse questions, he wasn't having it. Good for him. Why do "journalists" find it so necessary to try and get the dirt on people like Lou Reed and their private lives? We as music fans have no right to know this stuff, we don't own them.

@TelecasterLPGTop

4 жыл бұрын

Well said and you are right, we do not own our heroes they should be left alone.

@sethorren

4 жыл бұрын

She didn't ask him a question about his drug use, she referenced it and asked him what he thought about his current sobriety and the current morays of drug use and music. I think that was a very good question and I think what really is illustrated is Lou self consciousness. A hallmark of interviews with Lou was his discomfort with parts of his own past. He never knew how to talk about it and that frustration, I think, resulted in his lashing out at reporters.

@democracymanifest8256

2 жыл бұрын

@@sethorren Well yes. We’re talking about someone who trades on this reputation and doesn’t want to discuss it. He may as well get his publicist to ask the questions and just supply the tape.

Lou, a real out front human being.

Lou looks pissed lol

@lanettesuggs5130

9 жыл бұрын

No, he's not. He's just tired.

@IHeartNoise

6 жыл бұрын

Very bored or depressed, rather

@Pingaheimer

5 жыл бұрын

@@IHeartNoise dude had that thousand yard stare lol

Better be on top of your game when you interview The Lou.

Man, lou's a tough interview

and yet here it is. not dropped !

Maybe if the media had treated Mr, Reed with a little more respect, he might of reciprocated.....But I didn't know him personally, so that's just an observation.

She's so sweet but... Lou is Lou

"It's the parts they left out that I like........ typically." said in a completely deadpan way. Absolutely delicious.

"Why'd you leave out people who like goats?" HAHAHAHAHA

Journalists either make you or break you before the Internet, so ye...artists are always going to be on the defense.

beautiful and in shape

what was he telling her at the end to drop?

How sick and tired he is...of the squirrels.

she has her list of questions & checking them each off is more important than the answer, pretending to be even the slightest bit interested in what he offers up.

Oh my , we are watching the person we know that's Lou Reed, those eyes ,the inside of him is gone ,Were? he gave us great music though. sad this watch.

O inemitavel Lou

people do get " grumpy " you gotta " snap out of it " smile and cheer up" lol

Australian people seem so nice! Don't forget lou Reed was at his prime in the 70s. So he has some serious mileage on his body. Hence the different look of burn out....

@johncarden8985

4 жыл бұрын

Not burned out - jet lagged and made cynical by experience. Mmmmmm!!!

Very curous interview. Note towards the end where Reed tells the reporter to "drop the question" as it has not been submitted for approval. If so, she took a walk on the wild side of journalism which is not about pre-approved questions. Suspect this was used on 7.30 but not shot for 7.30 which is a show of serious journalistic cred. Interesting dilemma though when q's are pre-approved for a light ent show but then used on a serious current affairs forum.

i bought berlin when it first come out...knew it was a work of genius...rock n roll xx

i wanna know when

Lou seems vulnerable here. The interviewer must be pretty.

Deep down i really think he was a cuddly teddy bear he just didnt wanna admit to it

@clc-gl4jn

3 жыл бұрын

I posted this on his birthday too

What a bad ass...

"It's like talking to a squirrel" ha ha. I prefer "It's like trying to teach my dog algebra"

i am not english so could someone please explain me what exactly he said to her when she said most depressing record

@moogyboy6

9 жыл бұрын

iim xBlade A music journalist wrote that about "Berlin" in a review of the album when it originally came out, I believe; Lou is upset because many people believed what the reviewer said and so they didn't buy the album because they thought it'd be no fun to listen to. He says this is a reason it took so long to produce "Berlin" as a stage show. Basically this reviewer helped to ruin the record's reputation with the public and he's angry about that; Lou doesn't think the "most depressing record" opinion was fair or accurate. Lou mentions several plays by Shakespeare and one by Tennessee Williams as examples of *really* depressing literature, more than "Berlin", and basically says that music journalists are so ignorant that he doesn't even want to discuss what they think about his music.

take a walk on the wild side

@TANTHEMANFILMS

3 жыл бұрын

@kkh369 my dads friend my friend as a kid knew him ironically when i was 10 he always said that line and i got into that music.. whats the deal lol?