Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed ...

Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a songwriter for hire at a company called Pickwick Records. He churned out ...

Light In The Attic has teamed up with Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive to put together a new anthology documenting Reed’s work for the defunct label Pickwick Records. Spanning 25 songs, Why ...

Before founding The Velvet Underground, Reed worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records. Now, the songs that he penned during his stint at the company in the mid-1960s have been compiled for a new ...

September 1964. New employee Lou Reed (right) at Pickwick Records’ offices, with fellow company songwriter Jerry Vance (far left), label exec Terry Philips (second from left) and an unknown colleague.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a ...