Editing Lou Reed (section)

===1990–1999: Velvet Underground reunion and various projects===
Reed met John Cale for the first time in several years at Warhol's funeral in 1987. They worked together on the album ''[[Songs for Drella]]'' (April 1990), a [[song cycle]] about Warhol.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2013/10/28/lou-reed-dead-john-cale-statement/|title=Lou Reed remembered by VU bandmate John Cale|last=Anderson|first=Kyle|date=October 28, 2013|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=February 18, 2018}}</ref> On the album, Reed sings of his love for his late friend, and criticizes both the doctors who were unable to save Warhol's life and Warhol's would-be assassin, [[Valerie Solanas]]. In 1990, the first Velvet Underground lineup reformed for a [[Fondation Cartier]] benefit show in France.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/see-velvet-underground-play-heroin-at-1990-reunion-w446616|title=See Velvet Underground Play 'Heroin' at 1990 Reunion - Rolling Stone|last=Greene|first=Andy|date=October 25, 2016|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=February 18, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923142153/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/see-velvet-underground-play-heroin-at-1990-reunion-w446616|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June and July 1993, the Velvet Underground again reunited and toured Europe, including an appearance at the [[Glastonbury Festival]]; plans for a North American tour were canceled following a dispute between Reed and Cale.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/05/arts/older-but-still-hip-the-velvet-underground-rocks-again.html|title=Older but Still Hip, the Velvet Underground Rocks Again|last=Rockwell|first=John|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 5, 1993|access-date=February 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_velvet_underground_live_paris_1993|title=Their Last Tour: The Velvet Underground - Live in Paris, 1993|work=Dangerous Minds|date=January 16, 2011|access-date=February 18, 2018}}</ref>

Reed had released his sixteenth solo album, ''[[Magic and Loss]]'', in January 1992. The album is focused on mortality, inspired by the death of two close friends from cancer. In 1994, he appeared in ''[[A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who]]''. In 1995, Reed made a cameo appearance in the unreleased video game ''[[Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors]]''. If the player selects the "impossible" difficulty setting, Reed appears shortly after the game begins as an unbeatable [[Boss (video games)|boss]] who murders the player with his laser beam eyes. Reed then pops up on the screen and says to the player, "This is the impossible level, boys. Impossible doesn't mean very difficult, very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize, impossible is eating the sun."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlbzdaJJ| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310074234/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlbzdaJJ| archive-date=March 10, 2021 | url-status=dead|title=YouTube|via=YouTube}}</ref>

The Velvet Underground were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1996. At the ceremony, Reed, Cale and Tucker performed a song titled "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend", dedicated to Sterling Morrison, who had died the previous August.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/26-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-reunions-that-actually-happened-20140407/7-the-velvet-underground-1996-0317341|title=7. The Velvet Underground (1996)|last=Greene|first=Andy|date=April 7, 2014|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=February 15, 2018|archive-date=February 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216025038/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/26-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-reunions-that-actually-happened-20140407/7-the-velvet-underground-1996-0317341|url-status=dead}}</ref> In February 1996 Reed released ''[[Set the Twilight Reeling]]'', and later that year, Reed contributed songs and music to ''Time Rocker'', a theatrical interpretation of [[H. G. Wells]]' ''[[The Time Machine]]'' by [[Experimental theatre|experimental]] director [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]. The piece premiered in the [[Thalia Theater, Hamburg]], and was later also shown at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] in New York.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5D81738F937A25752C1A961958260&sec=&spon= |work=The New York Times |title=Next Wave Festival: Echoes of H. G. Wells, Rhythms of Lou Reed |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=November 14, 1997}}</ref>

In 1997, the [[BBC]] created a version of [[Perfect Day (Lou Reed song)|Perfect Day]] which featured many artists, including Reed. Initially created for advertising purposes, it was later released as a charity single for [[Children in Need]] and became a Uk no.1 single.