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 ...

Reed’s association with Pickwick gave him the opportunity to hone his songwriting prior to the formation of The Velvet Underground. He created tunes in various musical styles, including girl-group pop ...

Before co-founding the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was a staff songwriter for other artists at Pickwick Records. Now, his mid-1960s songs, performed by assorted artists on the label (with occasional ...

It was, in Reed’s own words, “a real hack job,” the 9-to-5 dark night before his revolutionary dawn with The Velvet Underground. Mentored at Syracuse by the poet Delmore Schwartz and charged by the ...

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 ...

If, in early 1965, you were looking for records that stood at the cutting edge of electric guitar, with approaches to the instrument that were years – decades, really – ahead of their time, it's safe ...

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.