1/. Eight years ago, when news of Lou Reed’s broke, atheist minister @AndyPakula tweeted:
“Would anyone like to organise a rocking memorial service for Lou Reed? I’ll supply the London church”
I got in touch
Six days later, 150 gathered for the 3 hour “Wake on the Wild Side”.
“Would anyone like to organise a rocking memorial service for Lou Reed? I’ll supply the London church”
I got in touch
Six days later, 150 gathered for the 3 hour “Wake on the Wild Side”.
https://twitter.com/wakeonwildside/status/397730850143346688
2/. “Lou Reed helped us explore the darkest corners of our minds & souls & to accept it was OK to be ourselves. He taught people to live the whole of life. The parts that suck & the parts that are painful. The part where we live & the part where we die.” ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/wake-wild-side…
3/. The entire 3hr Wake on the Wild Side was live-streamed & is still on @YouTube👇
Readings, reminiscences, a meditation & performances with song sheets given out for the audience to sing along to Satellite of Love, Sunday Morning & Walk on the Wild Side
Readings, reminiscences, a meditation & performances with song sheets given out for the audience to sing along to Satellite of Love, Sunday Morning & Walk on the Wild Side
CORRECTION - Wrong handle! The twitter handle for Andy Pakula, the atheist minister in the Chapel on Newington Green, @apakula. Apologies to Andrew Pakula.
4/. The dress code at the memorial was optional but people were encouraged to dress on the wild side
“It would be a very different world had it not been for Lou Reed” @apakula
“He invented cool” @rufuswainwright
“If you close the door, the night could last for ever” @LouReed
“It would be a very different world had it not been for Lou Reed” @apakula
“He invented cool” @rufuswainwright
“If you close the door, the night could last for ever” @LouReed
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