Lou loved David and you can see how often he looks at him with love and admiration.We're so lucky to have lived at this time and to have this terrific musical legacy. RIP David and Lou
Indeed! But we have to remember they know and worked together since at least, the 80's. Berlin shows it all. Lucky me watched Lou live by this time in Lisbon. Hurra! May they rest in peace now.
@Timothy Tew @Kathy Semrau ,,,Well...i love Lou, davie kate.and timmy ....tew ahahahahah ,,,,I had to laugh....This little thread that started with Eva is 7 years old ... and there are hundreds of little threads like this all over the span of 12 years since this was first posted..and its like a wheel that spins....around she goes....everyone sees...the love,..i sent it to a friend 3000 miles from me .....
@@butterflyandme159 so when David Bowie sings about Berlin about his album The Next Day... he remembers his time with Lou Reed... I've been wondering about it for some time... must listen to the track again !
David Bowie has always helped all people like Lou Reed as well as Queen meaning Freddy Mercury and many others but stayed very humble, just check people
All dressed in Black too... unusual for him so it must have been especially for Lou who just wear black tight T-shirts & trousers. He also shows his real hight in this video not being very tall in fact and a bit skinny here too... Which year was this do you know ?
I remember the 1st Velvet album with the Warhol banana. I'm 73 now and alcohol/drug free for decades. This song still takes me back to those days. I play it about 3 or 4 times a year. It's great camera work and audio. I just wanted them to show more of the band.
This is almost too much of a tear jerker for me to watch these days. Just thinking that we'll never see this team up of talented musicians again...damn that makes me sad!
@@uninsulatedshrimp5518 Absolutely. I'm pretty sure Charlie would say "I thank you for your kind thoughts but please, no more "RIP" and "I'm crying" instead let's move on..î... Charlie lived a life that 99.99% to infinity can only dream about.
I wish someone would look at me the way Lou Reed looks at David Bowie, because hot damn, he spends the whole song just staring him down compassionately.
+Jeff R. Seriously - Reed and VU invented that slinky, trashy New York rock that Bowie and others transformed into Glam. Love 'em both - they're pillars in the pantheon.
+why4duck Dude. Bowie helped Lou Reed write his great solo album "Transformer" . Bowie made songs and gave them away to people to help their careers. Iggy
You know you're the coolest rock star icon who ever did it, when the lead singer of the most influential indie rock album ever is in awe next to you on stage. Bowie is just too much.
I was mad at Bowie for years when he played a lackluster 20 minute set in Nashville then left no encore but he has grown back on me thru out the years. lol
Lou Reed was a stoic character, reluctant to show positive emotions. Here though, he is looking his friend, his saviour in many ways, his mentor and looking at him singing his song with such gusto. And all the tough exterior emotions melt away.
@@omegajrz1269 I would disagree. Lou's artistic achievements were certainly an inspiration to Bowie but in their muscial collaborations, it was Bowie who took the lead. Lou Reed did not produce any David Bowie albums.
They're old respected friends and colleagues. In some ways there was similar song craft between them and it's just great how much they thought of each other. Both gone now but awesome to see them enjoy themselves together.
Holy Moly Lou and Bowie doing one of the greatest tunes every written ... Damn! This is what is great about the Internet ... I can go to sleep now ...after I play this one more time!
Michael Lara Yeah, some very fine hombres but I'll go with,,'they're singing to each other.' It's a matter of respect. Equality among the masters. They've earned the right to look however they want and where ever they want. Always giving the listener just a little of the underrated in song,,,,while elevating themselves with each beat,,,,,,,,,,they never left us,,,,,they just, 'standin on the corner,' up the street,,,,waiting,,,,,
"Hey that version ain't bad!" - are you serious? how could you describe this as " ain't that bad" good god its fucking lou reed and bowie together singing one of the best songs to come out of the last 100 years and having fun doing it. "aint that bad"....jesus
+Kevin Borland Awesome. I would have loved to have been there for that show. He had a few other guest stars. BTW. How long did Bowie play during that show? Just curious.
Two genius performers....so glad to have met Lou in NY at Max's Kansas City in the 80's. Very cool and was so humble and couldn't get over my southern accent!
You know, back in the mid-70s, Lou Reed ceremoniously and rather loudly fell in love with David Bowie.. there were entire interviews and articles written about it -- primarily in Creem Magazine, a rock mag that was the best of the best back in those days. I always wondered if it was true. 1 minute into this video and I knew that it was and remained for a long time :) Reed loved his Bowie, just like the rest of us :)
He did not say it per se, but he went off the deep end when talking of him.. if you can somehow get ahole of any of the older (mid 1970s) interviews with Reed by LESTER BANGS, you are on your way of uncovering what I speak of :) It was a delicious timeframe and if you find them, you will understand!.
+Julie Swahn I'll have to check it out. Who can blame Reed for "loving" Bowie. I love Bowie. Anyone with half a brain and likes rock music has to like Bowie. If they don't, they just haven't listened enough. They will be future Bowie fans... You watch sometime in the future-hopefully a few decades from now-How many people will come out of the woodwork so to speak and talk about how great he was. After he passes, is what I meant to say.
Lou Reed and the rest of The Velvet Underground have been credited with influencing some of the best bands in history. Bowie has also been credited with influencing some the greatest musicians in history. That's one dynamite duo right there. We also know that they both were switch hitters so I am sure there may have been something there.
wildcatter63 Of course he was ground breaking. Only fool would not give him a credit and not call him a legend. When Bowie was trying to be something in UK, The Velvet Underground was making a history in NY and Bowie was really trying to be a part of NY scene. Although Bowie later became sort of a mentor of Lou Reed in glam rock era, the influence was really both sided.
Bowie heard from Warhol that, he liked, this band Velvey Underground, with Lou Reed. Bowie was all about Warhols suggestion without ever hearing them, Bowie loved them and mixwed Lou Reeds first album. Match made in heaven.
murphy mcmadness Actually, not just mixed, but produced and also played some instruments on couple of tracks. And not first album, but the second - Transformer, which is most essential Lou Reed album.
***** Lol, radio play is your criterion? Vicious, Perfect Day, Walk on the Wild Side, Satellite of Love,... Are those not essential Lou Reed tracks? Transformer is widely considered to be his best album. If it's not, what is then?
Absolutely classic! If you were rockin in the early to mid 70s and not hip to this early progressive rock, you missed out! Keith Richard’s shows respect 3/2/24 ,speaks volumes for this great genre.
Just so good….nothing compares to this it has to be the all time great standard. Takes my breath away every time I watch it…. Beyond awesome 😔 so sad it will never be repeated. A place in time for sure 👍👍
Hi Jeannie I'm 80 and totally agree - I worked with both these guys in the 70s and have got back into music please have look at my RU-vid channel and here's a direct link to a video of a song I recorded with my band back in 1965 for Decca which we were told was lost BUT found in 2018 and released the June - I managed to get the band back together so it's me 78 miming to me 25 singing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sjcKGcM0Rtc.html Leave a comment if you can ..
two of the best ever my brother and myself saw Lou years ago at the thebarton theater amazing thank God we did how unbelievable it wood have been being at this show watching these two legends together RIP BOTH OF YOU up stairs waiting for the MAN
Stumbled on to this vid tonite . . .sheesh, thank the big McGoo to have Ewetoob to time travel and experience brilliance such as this! Really, really miss both of these boys.
I thought I'd seen everything and wasnt going to find different performances of David and here he and Lou Reed sing this song and I'm laughing. It's so good.xoxo
I remember waiting for the man in my early days it was so stressful. You think if he isn't here in ten minutes ------------ I will have to wait some more.
Bowie educating Lou with a fantastic song and wow do they look like they are enjoying life ,great song nobody else wrote about addiction like Lou ...legend
@@omegajrz1269I think Bowie put Lou Reeds career back together massive contribution to the transformer album...not gonna row but the thin white duke even made Lou smile peace out
