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Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71

New York legend, who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, underwent a liver transplant in May


By Jon Dolan
October 27, 2013 1:15 PM ET

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Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today on Long Island. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.

With the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Reed fused street-level urgency with elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty and noise, while bringing a whole new lyrical honesty to rock & roll poetry. As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn. Glam, punk and alternative rock are all unthinkable without his revelatory example. "One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

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Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side


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Welshman and Velvet Underground Member... John Cale

John Cale about Lou Reed





John Cale sings: I keep a close watch


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I bought his live album, 'Rock 'n' Roll Animal', on cassette in the 80's. I loved the guitar on "Intro/Sweet Jane" and "Rock 'n' Roll". And these lyrics from "Rock 'n' Roll" really resonated with me:

:DN4 One fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
and she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
ooohhh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
hey baby, rock 'n' roll :DN4


:rose R.I.P.* Lou Reed :rose



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Neil Young & Friends - Tribute to Lou Reed at 2013 Bridge School Benefit Concert (HD)

Neil Young, Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket, Jenny Lewis & others performing "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" in tribute to Lou Reed.

October 27, 2013. Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, California.


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