Hal Willner, Lou Reed's producer, dies of coronavirus at 64

Hal Willner, a music producer for Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, and Lucinda Williams, has died of complications related to the coronavirus, at age 64, CNN reports. He had also been involved with Saturday Night live, as the man behind the music skits, since 1980. But he remains perhaps best or most fondly remembered for the full-length salutes he helmed on borderless tribute albums to artists like Thelonious Monk and Kurt Weill, and the music of classic Disney films. New York Times described Willner as an author of "mixtapes of a city’s imagination".