The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and METALLICA, "Lulu", will be released on November 1 in North America and one day earlier (October 31) in the rest of the world.
"Lulu" was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind's plays "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box", which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships and are now collectively known as the "Lulu Plays". Since their publication in the early 1900s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film ("Pandora's Box", 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the 'TALLICA boys for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York in 2009, all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together. Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical "Lulu" piece to the next level and so starting in early May of this year they were all camped out recording at METALICA's studios in San Rafael, California, bringing us to today and ten complete songs.