Patti Smith and David Byrne are the latest high profile artists to pay tribute to Lou Reed, who died on Sunday [October 26].
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Smith said:
David Bowie will premiere the video for the James Murphy remix of his song "Love Is Lost" during the Mercury Music Prize ceremony on Wednesday (October 30).
Visuals for the 10-minute long reworking of The Next Day album track will be unveiled during the Mercury Music Prize show on More 4 in the UK at 9.30pm. The full video will then be made available to watch on Vevo from November 1.
Tom Waits played his first live show in five years on Sunday [October 27] at Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert.
Scroll down to watch fan footage of the entire 10 song set.
Waits was accompanied by David Hidalgo on guitar and accordion, Les Claypool on bass and Casey Waits on drums.
Waits has played the Bridge School Benefit concerts twice before, first in 1999 and then in 2007, when he performed with the Kronos Quartet.
Neil Young, Elvis Costello and Jim James paid tribute to Lou Reed last night [October 27] at the Bridge School Benefit concert.
They performed a cover of "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", which originally appears on the Velvet Underground's fourth album, Loaded.
Reed died yesterday. As yet, the cause of his death has not been announced.
Nils Lofgren discusses his career as “a band guy”, performing with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, in the new issue of Uncut (dated December 2013), out now.
Morrissey is the latest artist to pay tribute to Lou Reed, who died yesterday [October 27], aged 71.
Morrissey's follows David Bowie and John Cale, among others, who have paid tribute to Reed.
In a post on the quasi-official site, True To You, Morrissey wrote:
Fleetwood Mac's John McVie has been diagnosed with cancer.
The band have now cancelled their Australian and New Zealand tour so that McVie, one of the co-founding members of the legendary group, can seek treatment for the illness.
Arcade Fire performed with Neil Young at Young's Bridge School Benefit concert on Saturday, October 26.
The band played a full acoustic set at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Before they were joined by Young, Win Butler said he had a dream in which he wrote a new song, on awake he realised it sounded like a Neil Young song.
Butler then declared that the song was called "I Dreamed A Neil Young Song", before inviting Young on stage.
The making of George Harrison’s debut solo single, “My Sweet Lord”, is examined in the new issue of Uncut, dated December 2013, and out tomorrow (October 29).
