Berlin (Live at St. Ann's Warehouse)

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Lou Reed and Berlin producer Bob Ezrin always had their eyes on a stage adaptation of this narrative; in 2006, that finally became a reality, with appearances by Sharon Jones and Antony Hegarty. This is the soundtrack to a Julian Schnabel film about those performances.

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Upon the 1973 release of Berlin, a Rolling Stone critic deemed the record "patently offensive." Thirty years later, Lou Reed's concept album about speed freaks on a downward spiral of infidelity, spousal abuse, parental neglect and death ranked 344 on this magazine's 500 all-time-greatest-albums list. Reed has always fed upon this kind of irony, and […]