Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse is a concert film

Concert film

A concert movie, or concert film, is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert by a musician ....

 and live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

 released in 2008. The concert film was directed by Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....

, live at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY during five nights in December 2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

. Background shots of the characters Jim and Caroline were done by Lola Schnabel.

The Berlin tour was the first time Lou Reed had played the full album live in over 30 years, after the original album

Berlin (album)

Berlin is a 1973 album by Lou Reed, his third solo album and the follow-up to Transformer. In 2003, the album was ranked number 344 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, though the publication had called the album a "disaster" 30 years prior.-Background and...

 was a critical and commercial flop. Individual songs had been played, but not the whole thing.

The concert film and album both feature three additional songs, "Candy Says", "Rock Minuet" and "Sweet Jane", not from the original Berlin

Berlin (album)

Berlin is a 1973 album by Lou Reed, his third solo album and the follow-up to Transformer. In 2003, the album was ranked number 344 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, though the publication had called the album a "disaster" 30 years prior.-Background and...

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Lou Reed

1. "Intro" – 1:51
2. "Berlin" – 2:34
3. "Lady Day" – 4:12
4. "Men Of Good Fortune" – 6:35
5. "Caroline Says (I)" – 4:31
6. "How Do You Think It Feels?" – 5:37
7. "Oh, Jim" – 8:16)
8. "Caroline Says (II)" – 4:33
9. "The Kids" – 8:08
10. "The Bed" – 5:59
11. "Sad Song" – 8:21
12. "Candy Says" – 6:04
13. "Rock Minuet" – 7:18
14. "Sweet Jane
    Sweet Jane
    "Sweet Jane" is a song by The Velvet Underground, originally appearing on their 1970 album Loaded. The song was written by band's leader Lou Reed, who continued to incorporate the piece into live performances years later as a solo artist....
    
    " – 5:31

Personnel

• Lou Reed – lead vocals, guitar
• Steve Hunter
  Steve Hunter (guitarist)
  Steve "The Deacon" Hunter, born June 14, 1948, in Decatur, Illinois, is an American guitarist best known for his collaborations with Lou Reed and Alice Cooper. He first played with Mitch Ryder's Detroit, beginning a long association with record producer Bob Ezrin.In the 1970s, he appeared on five...
  
   – guitars
• Fernando Saunders – bass guitar, synthesizer, guitar, backing vocals
• Tony "Thunder" Smith – drums, backing vocals
• Rupert Christie – keyboards, backing vocals
• Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman is an American bass player, who has played with a wide variety of musicians including David Grisman, Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Bruce Cockburn, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Mark Morris, Aaron Neville, Chris Whitley, Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger,...
  
   – double bass
• Sharon Jones – vocals
• Antony Hegarty
  Antony Hegarty
  Antony Hegarty is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.-Early life:...
  
   – vocals
• Steven Bernstein – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Curtis Fowlkes
  Curtis Fowlkes
  Curtis Fowlkes is an American jazz trombonist. In 1987 he founded, together with saxophonist Roy Nathanson, The Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz. The two had met performing in John Lurie's The Lounge Lizards, a group that shares a...
  
   – trombone
• Paul Shapiro – saxophone, flute
• Doug Wieselman – bass clarinet, clarinet
• David Gold – viola
• Eyvind Kang
  Eyvind Kang
  Eyvindur Kang , only child of Charles Shin-Chul Kang and Kristjana Gunnars, is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player...
  
   – viola
• Jane Scarpantoni
  Jane Scarpantoni
  Jane Scarpantoni is a classically trained cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums.She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-'80s, then went on to play with other musicians especially those associated with the Hoboken underground rock scene of the...
  
  – cello
• Brooklyn Youth Chorus – choir

External links

• http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lou-reed/1979/eissporthalle-berlin-germany-33d6582d.html