Leelah Lou Dahlin

This 3CD/DVD/2LP Deluxe Edition of the legendary artist’s Sire Records debut features newly remastered sound, unreleased studio and live tracks, plus the DVD debut of “The New York Album” concert video. This limited edition and exclusive bundle also comes with a cassette version of the New York album.

Live stage performance of Lou Reed's 1973 album, recorded at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York over five nights in 2007. When it was first released, 'Berlin', Reed's third solo outing, received a critical mauling, especially since it followed his earlier triumph, 'Transformer', with its hit single 'Walk On The Wild Side'…

In October 1990, Lou Reed interviewed Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet, president of the newly emancipated Czechoslovakia, and – surprisingly? – a Velvet Underground fan. During the course of their conversation, Havel handed Reed a book. "These are your lyrics, hand-printed and translated into Czechoslovakian. There were only 200 of them. They were very dangerous to have. People went to jail." Nobody will go to jail for owning Between Thought and Expression, but Reed's lyrics remain dangerous – not, as in Communist Czechoslovakia, for what they are, but for what they say…

After the debut album Places in 2012 (platinum double-disc - Victoire de la Musique Female Artist) entrusted to the care of Etienne Daho, then Lay Low (gold record), produced by the Canadian Taylor Kirk (Timbre Stamp), Lou Doillon returns with a third studio album. A turn for the artist who abandons guitar follk for the electric, and builds the songs on beats mixing organic sounds. Sensual, hot, bewitching, intense but also dance orientated. With Benjamin Lebeau, half of The Shoes, she works on four songs including the fantastic first single Burn which growls with post-punk guitars and industrial friction behind the voice of Lou. Lou Doillon also entrusted another part of the production to Dan Levy (The D) for 3 tracks, and teamed up with Nicolas Subrchicot, for the rest of the album. A soliloquy gives a voice to inner thoughts. With her new album, Lou Doillon reveals more of herself than ever.

With 1982's The Blue Mask, Lou Reed began approaching more mature and challenging themes in his music, and in 1992, Reed decided it was time to tackle the Most Serious Theme of All – Death. Reed lost two close friends to cancer within the space of a year, and the experience informed Magic and Loss, a set of 14 songs about loss, illness, and mortality. It would have been easy for a project like this to sound morbid, but Reed avoids that; the emotions that dominate these songs are fear and helplessness in the face of a disease (and a fate) not fully understood, and Reed's songs struggle to balance these anxieties with bravery, humor, and an understanding of the notion that death is an inevitable part of life – that you can't have the magic without the loss.