But why was Lou Reed so "sass and mean to reporters"?

He was one of the artists journalists loved to listen to and fear to interview.

Lou Reed is at the heart of "Run run run", a show and an album by Emily Loizeau and Csaba Palotai.

The singer came to talk about it on the show "Musique!".

By working to cover, adapt and sometimes translate her hits, including 

 and 

 (from the Velvet Underground), Émily Loizeau notably rediscovered the rocker's attitude towards journalists.

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"I have the impression, from what I saw and read, that Lou Reed was infinitely insolent and mean sometimes, as Bob Dylan could have been too, with the journalists", she recalls. .

An analysis confirmed by Émilie Mazoyer, who remembers a radio interview with Lou Reed, who refused to answer other than "yes" or "no", without a word but only by nodding her head.

Sensitive, in his texts

The singer Émily Loizeau, however, wants to find explanations for this behavior: "I believe that what Lou Reed could not stand anymore, it was the journalists who came to see him to talk about the latest gossip of the evenings, drugs or fucking. For him. , it was no longer possible. He hated that category of people who didn't talk about him for the right reasons. "

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It was ultimately in his lyrics that Lou Reed let his humanity and his sensitivity show through most publicly.

They are in particular to be rediscovered in original version in the legendary album 

reissued on September 25, 2020, and in French in "Run run run", album and bilingual show by Emily Loizeau who recalls about him "It's someone who was in a desperate search for light ".

You can listen to the entire interview with Emily Loizeau at the microphone of Émilie Mazoyer: