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Subject: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: warped on 10/27/13 at 12:41 pm
Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was born in Brooklyn, in 1942. A fan of doo-wop and early rock & roll (he movingly inducted Dion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989), Reed also took formative inspiration during his studies at Syracuse University with the poet Delmore Schwartz. After college, he worked a staff songwriter for the novelty label Pickwick Records (where he had a minor hit in 1964 with a dance-song parody called "The Ostrich"). In the mid-Sixties, Reed befriended Welsh musician John Cale, a classically trained violist who had performed with groundbreaking minimalist composer La Monte Young. Reed and Cale formed a band called the Primitives, then changed their name to the Warlocks. After meeting guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker, they became the Velvet Underground. With a stark sound and ominous look, the band caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who incorporated the Velvets into his Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
:\'( Very sad news. I loved lots of his work.
http://www.nndb.com/people/391/000024319/lou-reed-sized.jpg
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, dead at 71.
Written By: warped on 10/27/13 at 12:51 pm
Lou Reed ~ Walk On The Wild Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaWSOlASWc
Velvet Underground ~ "Sunday Morning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK82JvRY5s
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: Dagwood on 10/27/13 at 2:39 pm
Wow. Another bummer. :(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: nally on 10/27/13 at 2:40 pm
I know his song "Walk On The Wild Side" best.
R.I.P. Lou :\'(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/27/13 at 2:41 pm
Yeah, I said my piece about this on Facebook. Lou was OUT THERE. He will be missed.
:\'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtzNl48F60
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: Howard on 10/27/13 at 4:19 pm
Lou Reed was a good singer loved his music. :\'(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 10/27/13 at 9:11 pm
One of my favorites from the Velvet Underground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0BxTmQXA0
In a 1982 interview Brian Eno made the often repeated statement that while the first Velvet Underground album may have sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
RIP Lou, you truly were a pioneer. Thanks for all the great music. :(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: ninny on 10/28/13 at 7:11 am
So sad R.I.P Lou :\'(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: Henk on 10/28/13 at 7:51 am
Sad news. Not such a perfect day. :(
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: AmericanGirl on 10/28/13 at 9:32 pm
I know his song "Walk On The Wild Side" best.
Me, too :\'( :\'( :\'(
R.I.P. Lou Reed
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: Foo Bar on 11/01/13 at 9:41 pm
RIP, great-grandfather of punk, and three or four completely unrelated musical styles.
Subject: Re: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...dead at 71.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/02/13 at 6:15 am
I was at a flea market in New York a long long long time ago helping a friend sell stuff. He turned to me and mouthed "Lou Reed". He was looking at our stuff. I eye-contacted...looked away, and as he passed by I of course started...Doo do do do do do do do Doo do do..... Turned and cracked a smile. Just a moment in time. RIP. Lou :\'(