--- title: Lou Reed Death Anniversary: John Cale Pays Velvet Underground Tribute description: The former Velvet Underground member shares an emotional new version of his song "If You Were Still Around" canonical: https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T20:14:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:05.667Z og:title: Watch John Cale's Tribute to Lou Reed One Year After His Death og:description: It's a touching new version of Cale's song "If You Were Still Around" og:url: https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt983d25228a0c9af2/698762e7428a9e0520cc4c0f/lou-reed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Lou Reed og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Cale's Tribute to Lou Reed One Year After His Death twitter:description: It's a touching new version of Cale's song "If You Were Still Around" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt983d25228a0c9af2/698762e7428a9e0520cc4c0f/lou-reed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch John Cale's Tribute to Lou Reed One Year After His Death > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 8:14 PM UTC  Lou Reed speaks about his film Red Shirley after its public screening at the festival Visons du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Lou Reed speaks about his film Red Shirley after its public screening at the festival Visons du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Salvatore Di Nolfi—Keystone/AP by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 8:14 PM UTC It’s been exactly[ one year](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/27/rock-legend-lou-reed-dead-at-71/) since rock legend Lou Reed died at age 71\. To pay tribute, Reed’s former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale released a re-recording of his 1982 tune “If You Were Still Around.” The video mixes new footage of an emotional, tearful Cale with old footage of Reed. Cale also shared a statement, Pitchfork [reports](http://pitchfork.com/news/57210-john-cale-pays-tribute-to-lou-reed-with-new-if-you-were-still-around-video/), alluding to the rockers’ at times contentious relationship: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/"},"headline":"Watch John Cale's Tribute to Lou Reed One Year After His Death","datePublished":"2014-10-27T20:14:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:05.667Z","description":"The former Velvet Underground member shares an emotional new version of his song \"If You Were Still Around\"","url":"https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt983d25228a0c9af2/698762e7428a9e0520cc4c0f/lou-reed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt983d25228a0c9af2/698762e7428a9e0520cc4c0f/lou-reed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lou Reed","caption":"Lou Reed","creditText":"Salvatore Di Nolfi—Keystone/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3541978/john-cale-lou-reed-tribute/","name":"Watch John Cale's Tribute to Lou Reed One Year After His Death"}}]}] ```