Metallica & Lou Reed Unveil First Taste Of 'Lulu' Collaboration 'The View' - Listen Now
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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The combination of Lou Reed and Metallica are to release their anticipated 'Lulu' album on 31st October.
Reed and Metallica had first got together at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in 2009, when they had performed two Lou Reed songs together ('Sweet Jane' & 'White Light,White Heat') after which Reed pronounced “We knew then we were made for each other”!
At first they planned to record an album of Reed’s older material, what Ulrich describes as “some of Lou’s lost jewels – songs that he felt he’d like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs.” That idea “hung in the air for a couple of months.” Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, “Lou called up and said, ‘Listen, I have this other idea.”
That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater group the Berliner Ensemble’s production of the Lulu Plays, which premiered in April at the Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.
“We were very interested in working with Lou,” says Hetfield. “I had these giant question marks: What’s it going to be like? What’s going to happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp ‘TALLICA on it. And that’s what we did.”
'The View' is our first taste of the album. Check it out below.
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