It's not true that the producer locked the kids in the cupboard! He just told them it was time for bed... My son cries like that sometimes when I tell him he can't play with the kitchen knives.
Whatever the actual cause of the cries of the children, this is a classic Lou Reed song: simple, human, moving, devastating. Broke my heart before I became a parent and shatters it now. RIP Lou... you were a true poet of the dispossessed. If there's a lesson to be learned from Lou it's that every street freak is deserving of a moment of empathy. "My heart is overflowing anyway..."
(This was the second Lou Reed song I listened to on the day he died. I was fortunate enough for the first to be "Sweet Nothing" live by My Morning Jacket with Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, & others. A beautiful moment and I was glad to be part of it.)
It's not true that the producer locked the kids in the cupboard! He just told them it was time for bed... My son cries like that sometimes when I tell him he can't play with the kitchen knives.
Whatever the actual cause of the cries of the children, this is a classic Lou Reed song: simple, human, moving, devastating. Broke my heart before I became a parent and shatters it now. RIP Lou... you were a true poet of the dispossessed. If there's a lesson to be learned from Lou it's that every street freak is deserving of a moment of empathy. "My heart is overflowing anyway..."
(This was the second Lou Reed song I listened to on the day he died. I was fortunate enough for the first to be "Sweet Nothing" live by My Morning Jacket with Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, & others. A beautiful moment and I was glad to be part of it.)