Fellow celebrity authors supported Leroy, among them Dave Eggers, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega.
Other bands who will perform at the three-day event include Primal Scream, Editors, Lou Reed and Maximo Park.
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Warhol served as the manager and producer of the band, which was formed by Lou Reed and John Cale in the mid-1960s.
Lou Reed (200-1): I don't think this is a realistic possibility but would be worth it just for the crabby news conference.
When Lou Reed dropped out of this year's lineup, it meant only 77-year-old reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry was left to represent boomer-era music.
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There is the classic rock of Lou Reed maybe followed by the Rap music of Action Bronson or the Synthpop of New Order or alternative Rocker Phoenix.
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French poet Arthur Rimbaud is a hero, but she has also found inspiration in Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Claude Debussy, Herman Hesse, the Dadaists, William Blake and Jackson Pollock.
Willis lasted less than half an hour of his comeback after a recurrence of his calf problem, and he was followed to the sidelines by impressive Scarlets lock Lou Reed.
The auteur behind such acclaimed documentaries as "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, " "Thinking XXX" and "The Black List" series became inspired to do the project after a chance encounter.
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He was at ease with rock, jazz, swing and pop, working with Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, Elton John and Tony Bennett, Madonna and Lou Reed.
In a recent conversation at BAM, Mr. Cale, 70, spoke with compassion and affection for Nico, a vocalist with the Velvet Underground, the band Mr. Cale founded with Lou Reed some four decades ago.
In 1985, the protest group Artists United Against Apartheid which included Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and U2 took a less nuanced stance and pledged (in a song titled Sun City) not to play there.
People who signed agreements are "salivating over the possibility of being able to make an attack, " says Jeffrey Cohen, a New York lawyer who has represented high-profile divorce clients including musician Lou Reed and author Joseph Heller.
People in New York take obnoxious pride in their iPod playlists, curating them with precise attention to hipness and currency, as if they're fearful Lou Reed will peep over their shoulder on the subway, see the Black Eyed Peas on the screen and buy them a ticket on the first bus back to Connecticut.
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