Lou Reed - Interview on 7.30 Report, 2007 (Unedited)
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Lou Reed - Interview on 7.30 Report, 2007 (Unedited)
Program:
Rage - Lou Reed Special (ABC Ch21)
Source:
ABC1
Date:
Saturday, 2 November 2013.
Links:
7.30 Report - www.abc.net.au/7.30/
Rage - www.abc.net.au/rage/
ABC - www.abc.net.au/
About:
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Lou was always honest and straight forward..Man we could use that today..
One of my best friends, i never met
RIP Lou you were an absolute genius of a musician...
ah yes " tai chi and the Joy of Living " that's exactly what comes to mind when I see you, Lou, you just radiate happiness
HAHAHA YES
Great songwriter; great music maker; great guy. Miss you Lou!
No. Just no.
Gotta hand it to the interviewer, she did a pretty good job. Lou Reed certainly isn't the easiest person to interview by a long shot!
I miss him.
Bloody oath she did
He has always been an insecure arrogant guy
Try John Lydon
@@savanaviolenta Mr John
I love Lou. He takes no shit and speaks his mind truthfully.
outshined its easy to fuck with reporters its stupid. I haven't heard him say anything too often that is really amazing.
@@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696 What are you talking about, imbecile?
@@eli-schlomo-wetshekelstien6696 obviously you are not a Lou fan or u don't listen to the lyrics he wrote Maybe you should listen to Pale Blue Eyes or waiting for my man and Lou's genius will come through ✌
truthfully? he's actually an irony machine lol
He also gave a lot of shit
"You're doing okay. Beautiful and in shape." The ole charmer...
very expressive. I love Lou. Very generous.
I love you Lou Reed, I send you lots of Love brother... God bless you.
I can't argue with an idiot, it's like talking to a squirrel lol 😂
He's very generous about the people he works with who he admires.
he's definitely not a social media type RIP
The interviewer can forever brag about the fact that Lou Reed told her he loved her!
wow...reed is almost gushingly polite
he's a very genuine person
Well he’s full of the joys of spring !
Wonderful interview!
I thank God, I walked the Earth the same time as Lou Reed.
"It's like talking to a squirrel"
He is actually talking in full sentences during an interview.
The sobriety question!! Hahaha … I swear I laugh more watching some Lou interviews than I do most stand up comedy.
@barrett402 Yeah, drop it!
How many times can one interviewer go, "hmmmm?" With this one, it's limitless.
Hmmm. Annoying isn't it?
Wow - is all I can say. I really liked this interview. I found it affirming.
Interviewer sounds nervous, occasionally terrified.
why would she be terrified by a lightweight?
@@acohen1980 Trolling?
@@acohen1980 a lightweight?! Bitch, you have no clue.
And Lou loved her!
Wow, I love you Lou. Thank you for the gift.
Lou always tells a lot of jokes in his interviews but his interviewers always take him face value
Exactly. They aren't bright enough to realise that. He's always on the verge of smiling when he makes a wise crack. And interviewers are like deer in the headlights. They're unable to process his comments.
He was an OG troll.
I love Reed but he's a dickhead here and alot of other times.
Yeh, early on Lou told a whole string of jokes - the interviewer didn't seem to get any of them - and Lou just looks forward at the person presenting themselves to him, wondering.
Berlin was one of the monuments of music in my life. Spent a summer riding around drinking premixed screwdrivers and ……. There’s a special beauty in this and albums like tonight’s the night
Lou had a very rocky relationship with the Australian media LOL...he seemed pretty chill here
It’s like talking to a squirrel! 😂 ❤️U Lou wherever u are dude
Lou is such a stoic person to interview,one of the most difficult people to interview.He seems to be so controversial in his answers…not a happy man.Don’t get me wrong I love his music.Tracy will never forget this interview.
I love Lou Reed. But,thé life is so bad bécasse you are not heure today. Thanks Mister Lou Reed for your song. Excuse me for my bad english but I’m french.
He's was a serious guy - but better behaved here than in many other interviews.
Great interview. Thanks! Lou strikes me as being very jet lagged but still very coherent and elequent. I wonder if he was having liver issues at this point.
I'm sure he did have some kind of liver trouble since he had contracted the Hep C many years before this.
Yup, you can tell Lou did NOT care about this interview, lmao. Rock on, Legend, wherever you are.
i love how lou sets boundaries
Love you so much, Lou. Wish I was born a bit earlier so I could have seen you live
Lou will listen to you till the very end.
He never suffered fools and was always one step ahead of them all.
I don't think he suffers anyone!
i think he was up his own bum
I disagree. Lou was just an asshole. I love his music but he was a cantankerous prick.
@@octagonseventynine1253 asshole is your mother, whereas he a hell genius that fools like you don't understand
he's a fraud...an veritable plastic Bertrand...ha ha ha
take note at 17:25, where Lou's publicist asks the interviewer (post interview) "so you're not going to do anything about that Sobriety thing, are you?" and Tracy the interviewer says "we can drop it", and the publicist replies back:" yeah, drop it", to which all parties agree. This is an interesting dynamic, which supports Lou's desire to keep his personal life personal. His friend David Bowie was from the same mold as you watch interview after interview to gain insight into the world in which they lived. Fascinating to watch. It's also around this time, that Lou had a Liver transplant done at The Cleveland Clinic. Lou always had a "salty" personality toward interviewers, but it makes me wonder how much of this was his actual discomfort level. You can see at the very end as Lou walks out after the interview, a distended abdomen, which could be a direct result of his liver failing.
cyberopbug yes you can see how his midsection is protruding, liver cancer
@@motowngirl5891 Lou had hepatitis C for 30 yrs. It makes one VERY tired, non-energetic, gradually wears one out; it does a job on the liver. Especially if one drinks and/or uses drugs.We know he quit drinking in early 80's.There was no cure even 10 years ago. Interferon was used before that but it was not always successful, Lou then became so unhealthy that he chose to get a liver transplant. 100,000$ operation that has big risks. He was fine only a short while and then his body rejected it. I hope you enjoy his music as I do.
Mark Turmel I know all that, I have known people who have had this disease
Mark Turmel I have been a fan since he first came on the scene on the mid 1960's
'Why did you leave out people who like goats??"-Lou never suffered fools lightly-god bless
OK I like to think I've got pretty good people skills but I would never ever even attempt this. I have to actually take my hat off to this interviewer for her valiant attempt. Lou Reed is terrifying, I would crumble into a thousand pieces trying to keep this interview going with him. Had to stop half way through, I was exhausted! Literally like pulling teeth.
Greg Dixon just ask about the music. Thats what they dont do and they dont ask about guitars or how they capture sound , they ask shit that youll never get a great answer on.
If the interviewer just said, 'I don't know anything about shakesphire, what the fuck are you talking about?'. 'What made you go into the music job anyway?'
But the interviewer didn't.
Greg Dixon she is BRAVE!!
He didnt respond well to nervous or pompous. Just be genuine and he seems fine (unless hes in a tempermental mood in which case nothing will work). She seemed fine to me. Its his manager that asks for a part to be dropped not lou
He actually thinks he is a musical
genius ......it's called delusions of
Grandeur . Leads him to act like
a prima donna.
A really special, special person. R.I.P.
Lou looks shell shocked and like his thoughts are really somewhere else.
His strong reaction to the sobriety question. A poignant time perhaps. x
15:45 Ooh. She has barely started asking her question, and you can already see Lou suddenly getting pissed off, his lips tightening up; he's been around the track enough times to see it coming a mile away and as nice as the interview has been going so far I can hear him muttering to himself, "oh, for Christ's sake..." This girl seemed fairly well-prepared compared to most of the idiots who've talked with him, so she should have known full well not to tread there. It's a little chilling to watch.
I CHANGE MY MIND SO PURE SIMPLE LIKE HÉRO STRANGE BIG SUBJECT I'M NOT HOMO BUT HE'S SO CALM NOTHING UNUSFULL
Tracy who I wonder... She was indeed well prepared, and she was scared shitless - and she still won him over, sort of - very courageously done; great interview.
moogyboy6 I think he’s joking around with her as he subtlety does in a lot of interviews but the they’re always so nervous they don’t know how to take him, I love watching it, especially how he asks questions and tries to get them to say their opinion too. And feels like if they’re gonna interview him they should be smart enough to know what he’s talking about from Prussia to life in the Congo
he's an idiot...a fraud....
Kevin you poor thing.
I miss you, Lou
This interview makes me a little sad because I know he only has 6 more years to live.
I’m french girl,so excuse me for my bad english. You miss me dear Lou
"The people are incredibly nice, always." hahahahahahahahahahhahaahahah
You have to see it from Lou's point of view, god my 1000th interview with the same questions has things really not changed that much at all, well then i will give short answers that end the question, "god that stupid, it's like talking to a squirrel" funny, and your absolutely right lou
I photographed Lou Reed in 2007 when he was invited to Australia by Fergus Linehan to perform at the State Theatre as part of the annual Sydney Festival. I photographed John Cale at the Enmore Theatre around the same time. I now suspect Lou may have already been ill by this time (2007), although he lived for another six years. I later moved to Detroit. Iggy Pop was from a town called Ypsilanti, not Detroit proper, but it isn't too far from Detroit. Iggy didn't mind having a laugh and 'taking the mickey' during interviews, so it was nice to see Lou also being receptive to interviewers here (2007), unlike his 1974-75 interviews on tour. It makes for a more interesting and insightful look at the artist in question. Sure, interviewers ask stupid questions, and Tracy did in this ABC interview, but Lou was still fairly accommodating. I mean, some interviewers don't even prepare properly or know next to nothing about the people they're interviewing. You might get away with that at a press conference, but not in a one-on-one interview situation. People should've asked Lou more about New York City, the town he's always been so associated with. It has become much safer, but it has also become so gentrified and expensive. Detroit's still unsafe, but that too is getting expensive - at least in the small number of reasonably safe neighbourhoods - Downtown Detroit, Midtown, Woodbridge, Corktown, the Cass Corridor. Rents have skyrocketed in recent years in those areas, while the rest of Detroit is still blighted and deadly.
This is painful.
I love you Lou!
I imagine the interviewer (and anyone else) would shit themselves when copping Reed's 'don't fuck with me' stare down. Reed is in total control all throughout this interview, and I admire the way he is so cool when the interviewer goes out of bounds. He could tell them to fuck off and leave the interview, but he stays seated and calmly stops the interviewers attempt directly and in a polite and respectful manner. He seems to know himself, perhaps that's why he's so cool and in control. RIP Lou Reed
Polite and respectful could be argued against in a way but yeah, at least he's cool as a cucumber. Shows where the boundary is and bodies her attempt. But he's not very polite and not very respectful, towards others that is, everything's on his terms.
Classic album
I miss this man...the legend
LOU REED IS VERY,
VERY MISSED!!⚘
Great interview. Hard to believe it took 30 years to stage Berlin. A great piece of work.
Nope. Just an @$$#0l3 and talentless hack to who had access to top-tier studio men. Lou is the male equivalent of Yoko Ono.
"Arguing with idiots is like talking to a squirrel"!!!
I dont blame lou for not wanting to talk about either sobriety or drug use. That shits personal, obviously the guy was an old man. Let the 60’s and 70’s be a part of the past, the man was there to talk about his art.
"The only thing we have left to fear is fear itself"
- Lou Reed
For light relief after enduring this train wreck go to "Lou Reed '74 Australia Funniest Press Conference EVER & Wild side + Rock 'n Roll" video which is extremely hilarious :) the difference being that he got off the drugs (which we dare not speak of) unfortunately; much more agreeable guy back then, and retained his sense of humour. I still love ya Lou!
I love Mr reed....
"It's the parts they left out that I like........ typically." said in a completely deadpan way. Absolutely delicious.
When people make comments about Lou Reed's music they do not know what they are talking about! Sometimes you have to talk about the dark side of society and it is not all sweetness and light like people expect! Their has to be dark before light! I think that was a record by Lou Reed as well! People need to grow up and realise what people go through! Peter Hardy, Southport, 49 Years of Age
Another relaxed conversation with Lou.
Man, lou's a tough interview
She did well with Lou, remember by 2007 he’d been shat on by loads of journalists who didn’t understand his work until 30 years after it came out. Lou is the best and will always be
This is so true!
His stuff was already being praised in the 70s dude what are you talking about?
Better be on top of your game when you interview The Lou.
Lou, a real out front human being.
Anyone else notice how much Lou resembled Jerry Lewis?
I thought the same thing. Their mannerisms are similar. I would never want to interview either one. Neither ever suffered fools gladly.
Almost eerily similar.
5:40 That was so "gothic" and badass. Hahaha
Rage is a music video program televised in Australia broadcast nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It airs overnight on Friday and Saturday nights
that's true
Are all his interviews done in Sydney?
and yet here it is. not dropped !
I do not blame him for being hard on interviewers. It is truly astonishing how inept some journalists are. Mind boggling how well he handled this.
who r u sir?...the girl did an alright job. Actually thats an OK interview so I dunno what you;re on about
O inemitavel Lou
Lou looks pissed lol
No, he's not. He's just tired.
Very bored or depressed, rather
@@IHeartNoise dude had that thousand yard stare lol
Journalists either make you or break you before the Internet, so ye...artists are always going to be on the defense.
beautiful and in shape
His eyes are kinda....off.
His stare is sad....
That's what I can see, I am I wrong?
I heard that he had depression. His eyes look sad. Depression is hell, ive made some videos of my experience of depression, there is also 1 whole folder on my channel about understanding depression. It is in the playlist part of my channel if anyone wants to check it out and can relate to them, or can get something from them ? Over 400 videos. Thanks
He also said that he despises journalists and probably doesn't care much for interviews. The man always has his dry sense of humor going as well
best brit pop king ever
No, I see it, too. I think he is a melancholic.
Honestly I think it's really the reflection to his music, and sort of dark side his songs have...depression's one side, but maybe it was just how he chose to be, to make his music HIS. Just my opinion, but RIP Mr. Lou Reed. The Songwriting/Rock Music World's lost one of it's greatest.
Maybe if the media had treated Mr, Reed with a little more respect, he might of reciprocated.....But I didn't know him personally, so that's just an observation.
she has her list of questions & checking them each off is more important than the answer, pretending to be even the slightest bit interested in what he offers up.
Lou seems vulnerable here. The interviewer must be pretty.
Very curous interview. Note towards the end where Reed tells the reporter to "drop the question" as it has not been submitted for approval. If so, she took a walk on the wild side of journalism which is not about pre-approved questions. Suspect this was used on 7.30 but not shot for 7.30 which is a show of serious journalistic cred. Interesting dilemma though when q's are pre-approved for a light ent show but then used on a serious current affairs forum.
They should use his pic for anti drug adverts .
This is what you end up looking like after years of drug
use .
How sick and tired he is...of the squirrels.
She's so sweet but... Lou is Lou
Lou Never Made Prisoners 🖤
What a bad ass...
Lou fucks with the tai chi
lou is cool.
"Why'd you leave out people who like goats?" HAHAHAHAHA
" I can't argue with an idiot. It's like talking to a squirrel. "
Very direct, and well-spoken. I wish I had said that.
But then,
" Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit,
he { cannot } enter the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ' You must be born again. '
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. "
Goodbye Mr. Reed.
RIP ?
At the start of the interview Lou is the typical Lou reed always hating the interviewer then he sees she knows his stuff and eases up
people do get " grumpy " you gotta " snap out of it " smile and cheer up" lol
take a walk on the wild side
@kkh369 my dads friend my friend as a kid knew him ironically when i was 10 he always said that line and i got into that music.. whats the deal lol?
sorry!! 2007
I read the upload date, fail
Deep down i really think he was a cuddly teddy bear he just didnt wanna admit to it
I posted this on his birthday too
"it's like talkin' to a squirrel..." (i spit milk!!)
Australian people seem so nice! Don't forget lou Reed was at his prime in the 70s. So he has some serious mileage on his body. Hence the different look of burn out....
Not burned out - jet lagged and made cynical by experience. Mmmmmm!!!