Lou Reed and Berlin producer Bob Ezrin had their eyes on a stage adaptation of this depressing narrative before the record even came out, but its commercial failure ended that prospect-- at least until 2006, when various arts luminaries around New York led Reed and Evrin to revive the record for a four-night run at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse, with appearances by Sharon Jones and Antony Hegarty. This is the soundtrack to a Julian Schnabel film about those performances.read more