Lou Reed

“In my opinion, camp is simply a matter of doing things as if you are doing them. Diving into a swimming pool? Throw your arms heavenward and give it the full Esther Williams treatment. When you dive into a pool as if you are diving into a pool, as opposed to executing an earnest quotidian plop, the result is magical—that pool is transformed from a grody Band Aid–strewn chlorine bath into a veritable LAGOON! Smoking a cigarette? Perform the action as if you are a French existentialist.” — Simon Doonan, Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed

I love it when an artist puts out a concept album and the concept is that they had a mental breakdown

Lorenzo Mattotti - The Raven: Lou Reed's Adaption, 2003

Lou Reed – Rock N Roll Animal, 1974. Photo by Dwayne Dalrymple.

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The Velvet Underground playing ‘Heroin’ in someone’s NYC living room, 1965 📸: Adam Ritchie

Lou Reed at Andy Warhols Factory, 1966.

What Goes On, The Velvet Underground.

Lou reed, 1970s

I will never get over how inherently tied to the lgbtq community Crowley's canonical music tastes are. Both Queen and Velvet Underground had visibly queer leads who weren't afraid to step out of typical societal gender presentation. Not to mention that Lou Reed openly dated trans folks. You can pry Crowley's queerness from my cold dead hands.