Pink (musician)

Try This reached the Top 10 of the album charts in the US, Canadian, UK and Australian charts in 2003. He is often seen in the company of fellow artist Laurie Anderson. In 2003 Pink released a new album with Orbit and Perry called Try This. Eight of the thirteen tracks were cowritten with Tim Armstrong of punk band Rancid. It reached #10 in the UK singles chart. The track, produced by electronic music artist William Orbit, peaked in the 60's on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 Singles chart. In 2004, a remix of his song, "Satellite of Love" (called "Satellite of Love '04") was released. In the summer of 2003, Pink released a single from Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, "Feel Good Time". In 2003, he released a 2-CD set, The Raven, based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Uptempo dance remixes of these more rock-oriented songs allowed them to become crossover hits on rhythmic radio and in the clubs, and the less R&B, more alternative rock sound of M!ssundazstood enabled all four singles to become modest hits at adult top 40 radio also. In 2001 he was the victim of a hoax claiming he had died of a heroin overdose. The album's other singles, "Don't Let Me Get Me," "Just Like a Pill," and "Family Portrait" were also radio successes. In 1997 over thirty artists covered "Perfect Day" for the BBC's "Children in Need" appeal. "Get the Party Started" was a hugely commercially successful single. Reed continued on those dark notes with Magic and Loss, an album about mortality. The album's more alternative, rock sound could be heard immediately with its first single, "Get the Party Started". Touchingly affectionate and painfully confessional, often witty, Reed's vocals blister when singing of alleged medical errors and Valerie Solanas' 1968 assassination attempt on Warhol.

Together, Pink and Perry co-wrote and co-produced most of the tracks on Pink's sophomore album, Missundaztood, which was released in early 2002. When one-time Velvet Underground patron and producer Andy Warhol died after a routine surgery, Reed closed a 25-year hiatus to collaborate with fellow ex-VU John Cale on Songs for Drella, a Warhol biography in minimalist pop music. Tired of being marketed as a white hip-hop and R&B singer, and eager to become a more serious songwriter and musician, Pink sought the help of former 4 Non Blondes vocalist, Linda Perry. Reed fired an angry salvo at his hometown's political problems on the hit album New York, denouncing crime, high rents, Jesse Jackson, even Pope John Paul II and Kurt Waldheim. Towards the end of 2001, Pink decided to take her career in a new direction. He married Sylvia Morales (later divorced). The video was a huge hit on MTV, VH1, and MTV2, and the song was one of the year's biggest on pop, rhythmic, and adult top 40 radio. In the early 1980s, Reed gave up the drugs and depravity, both in his work and in his private life, to address more serious concerns, notably on his acclaimed comeback album The Blue Mask.

The song's music video featured the four singers dressed in underwear and heavy makeup, portraying prostitutes. His albums of the late 1970s are often regarded as a mixed affair by rock critics, owing at least partly to the addictions that were then overtaking Reed. The track was produced by hot hip-hop producers Rockwilder and Missy Elliott and was featured in Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge!. Though admitting that the liner notes' list of instruments used is fictitious and parodistic, Reed maintains that MMM was and is a serious album. In spring of 2001, Pink teamed up with rapper Lil Kim, R&B singer Mya, and pop superstar Christina Aguilera on a remake of Patti Labelle's "Lady Marmalade". The rock journalist Lester Bangs declared it genius. The album's third single, "You Make Me Sick" was released towards the end of 2000, and also became a smaller pop hit in early 2001 (hit number 33 in February of 2001), thanks in part to its being featured in the movie Save The Last Dance. Some regarded it as an attempt to break his record company contract.

Her first album, Can't Take Me Home, was a modest success, due to the huge pop and rhythmic radio hit singles "There You Go" (Hot 100 #7 in July of 2000) and "Most Girls" (#4 in November 2000). In 1975, he produced the double studio album of pure feedback Metal Machine Music. Reid, she did not like the type of music she made at this time, or her image, which included bright pink hair. Reed's persona was also far advanced, preferring black leather and S&M-like gear even in the hippie-infested 1960s. She has complained that because she chose to relinquish creative control to her record producer L.A. In his chosen material Reed followed, and updated, such authors as Allen Ginsberg and Jean Genet. Pink began her career as an R&B and hip-hop musician. "Perfect Day" is an elegiac paean to Reed's addiction to heroin, later included on the soundtrack to Trainspotting.

James played guitar and sang songs for the young Alecia, who vowed from the earliest that she would become a rock star someday. "Walk on the Wild Side" is a wry and graphic salute to the misfits, male hustlers and transvestites at Andy Warhol's Factory. She is the daughter of James and Judy Moore. Popular music would not catch up to him until the punks in the mid- to late-1970s, but even then his songs were unique: whether drenched in feedback or gently melodic, Reed usually sang about the disturbing, if not sordid, things other lyricists left out. Her home town is Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Reed's chosen subject matter was far ahead of its time. Alecia Moore (born September 8, 1979), better known by her stage name Pink, is a pop star who gained prominence in early January of 2000. This, one of the more depressing albums ever made, includes "Caroline Says II" (violence), "The Kids" (prostitution and drug addiction), "The Bed" (suicide) and, unsurprisingly, "Sad Song.".

2004 "Last to Know" #21 UK. He followed this with Berlin, which tells something like a love story of two junkies in the city of the same name. 2004 "God is a DJ" #11 UK. In 1972 Reed, now a solo artist, released the glam rock album Transformer, produced by David Bowie. 2003 "Trouble" #7 UK. Though internally unstable (breaking up in 1970) and never commercially viable, the VU's reputation as the ultimate, most influential underground band has remained intact. William Orbit) #3 UK. Reed moved to New York City, working as a songwriter for Pickwick Records, and co-formed The Velvet Underground as lead guitarist/vocalist/lyricist.

2003 "Feel Good Time" (feat. Reed said later his goals were "to bring the sensitivities of the novel to rock music," or to write the Great American Novel in a record album. 2002 "Family Portrait" #20 US, #11 UK. Reed also developed a taste for free jazz and experimental music. 2002 "Just Like a Pill" #8 US, #1 UK. Reed attended Syracuse University where he met poet Delmore Schwartz, who Reed credits for his simple poetic vernacular and the encouragement to become a writer. 2002 "Don't Let Me Get Me" #8 US, #6 UK. Reed was a fan of rock and rhythm and blues, playing in several high school rock bands, and had recorded a doo wop-style single as a member of The Shades.

2002 "Get the Party Started" #4 US, #2 UK. Reed was born in Freeport, Long Island, New York. 2001 "Lady Marmalade" (with Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim & Mya) #1 US, #1 UK. He lives in New York City. 2001 "You Make Me Sick" #33 US, #9 UK. Lewis Allen Reed, known as Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942), is a rock'n'roll singer-songwriter with a lasting musical influence on punk and alternative rock. Reed has toured and recorded almost continuously since 1965. 2000 "Most Girls" #4 US, #5 UK. Rockin' on Broadway (The Time/Brent/Shad Story) (2000, includes first recordings with The Jades [1958] and solo [1962]).

2000 "There You Go" #7 US, #6 UK. September Songs (The Music Of Kurt Weill) (1997). Try This (2003) #9 US, #3 UK. Till The Night Is Gone: A Tribute To Doc Pomus (1995). M!ssundaztood (2001) #6 US, #2 UK. Bright Red, Laurie Anderson (1994). Can't Take Me Home (2000) #26 US, #13 UK. Sweet Relief: A Benefit For Victoria Williams (1993).

Le Bataclan '72 with John Cale & Nico (2004). Songs for Drella with John Cale (1990). Animal Serenade (2004). Extended Versions (2003).

American Poet (2001). Perfect Night: Live in London (1998). Live in Concert (1997). Live in Italy (1984).

Live: Take No Prisoners (1978). Lou Reed Live (1975). Rock 'n' Roll Animal (1974). The Raven (2003).

Ecstacy (2000). Set the Twilight Reeling (1996). Magic and Loss (1992). New York (1989).

Mistrial (1986). New Sensations (1984). Legendary Hearts (1983). The Blue Mask (1982).

Growing Up in Public (1980). The Bells (1979). Street Hassle (1978). Rock 'n' Roll Heart (1976).

Coney Island Baby (1976). Metal Machine Music (1975). Sally Can't Dance (1974). Berlin (1973).

Transformer (1972). Lou Reed (1972). The Quine Tapes (live 1969, 2001). Peel Slowly and See (box set, 1995).

Live MCMXCIII (1993). Another View (1967-1969 outtakes, 1986). VU (1968-1969 outtakes, 1985). 1969 (The Velvet Underground Live) (1974).

Live at Max's Kansas City (1972). Loaded (1970). The Velvet Underground (1969). White Light/White Heat (1968).

The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967).