Lou Reed - Berlin: Live At St Ann's Warehouse

Matador Records are thrilled to announce that they are releasing ‘Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse’ by Lou Reed to coincide with the release of Julian Schnabel’s ‘Berlin’ on DVD.   
Upon the 1973 release of ‘Berlin’, Lou Reed’s controversial successor to the wildly popular ‘Transformer’, Rolling Stone’s Stephen Davis described it thus; “certain records so patently offensive that one wishes to take some kind of physical vengeance on the artists that perpetrate them... a distorted and degenerate demimonde of paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide”. A earnest pan, yes, but also a fabulous pull quote. Thirty years later, the very same magazine named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.
Staging ‘Berlin’ had been discussed for over 30 years, and in December of 2006 it became a reality, over four days at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. It was the first time Reed performed the album live. The film ‘Berlin’ - released in the UK by Artificial Eye at the same time as the album - by acclaimed painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel (‘Basquiat’, ‘Before Night Falls’, ‘The Diving Bell & The Butterfly’), documents these historic performances.

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