PBS to air Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ award-winning documentary “Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart” next week

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The October 30 issue of The Village Voice features a portrait of the iconic musician by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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PBS has announced plans to broadcast Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart on November 7, as part of its American Masters series, USA Today reports. The 1998 documentary on the pioneering artist, who died on Sunday, was directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, who was a close friend of Reed’s. The film went on to win a Grammy in 1999 in the long-form music video category.

“Lou Reed’s music was the backbeat to our lives and his lyrics were our conscience,” Timothy said in a statement. “His death is a blow, not only to New York City, but also to the world.”

The documentary, notes Slate, “features interviews with Reed and just about everyone you’d like to hear on him, including David Bowie (who worked with him on Transformer), Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, David Byrne, John Cale, and other surviving members of the Velvets. They even spoke with Holly Woodlawn and “Little” Joe Dallesandro, the drag queen and the street hustler immortalized by Reed in “Walk on the Wild Side.”

Timothy photographed Reed many times over the years, and he shared some of Reed’s favorite portraits from those shoots—including the one below—in his Huffington Post column the day Reed died. “Lou Reed is with us always,” Timothy writes. “It was a privilege to be his friend.”

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One of Reed’s favorite portraits by his friend Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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This entry was written by Kristina Feliciano and posted on 10/31/2013 at 10:25 am and filed under news & commentary with tags , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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