Last Sunday (27), a few hours after the disappearance of the mythical Lou Reed, the American group The Killers decided to pay a tribute to the great rock transgressor, performing an acoustic version of the classic 'Pale Blue Eyes' from the Velvet Underground album 'Transformer' (1969). 'Life Is Beautiful' in the group's hometown, Las Vegas (USA).
In 2007, Lou Reed had collaborated with The Killers on the single 'Tranquilize', the second track from the group's special compilation entitled 'Sawdust'. The video clip of 'Tranquilize' presented at the end of October 2007 also featured the participation of Lou Reed in its images. After performing 'Pale Blue Eyes' in Las Vegas, The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers revealed to the festival audience that when he wrote' All These Things That I've Done 'in 2004 he was trying to imitate the spirit of' Pale Blue Eyes'. Flowers confessed, "At the time everything was going wrong and in the end that became that fucking song."
Since the beginning of last week, numerous tributes and tributes to Lou Reed They were added, from groups like Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire or Pearl Jam, as well as David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and the British from The Who.
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Source - NME