Oct 27 2013 Lou Reed Dies

It doesn't seem similar v years. This was our post service that day.

Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Lou Reed Dies at 71

He's fortunate he lived that long. What to post? Sweet Jane? Heroin?

From Rolling Stone:

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader as well as Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71 
New York legend, who helped shape nearly 50 years of stone music, underwent a liver transplant inwards May

Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter as well as guitarist who helped shape nearly 50 years of stone music, died today. The movement of his decease has non soundless been released, only Reed underwent a liver transplant inwards May.
Look dorsum at Lou Reed's remarkable career inwards photos

With the Velvet Underground inwards the belatedly Sixties, Reed fused street-level urgency amongst elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty as well as noise, piece bringing a whole novel lyrical honesty to stone & curlicue poetry. As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny as well as unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn. Glam, punk as well as option stone are all unthinkable without his revelatory example. "One chord is fine," he in 1 trial said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords as well as you're into jazz."

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was born inwards Brooklyn, inwards 1942. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fan of doo-wop as well as early on stone & curlicue (he movingly inducted Dion into the Rock as well as Roll Hall of Fame inwards 1989), Reed also took formative inspiration during his studies at Syracuse University amongst the poet Delmore Schwartz. After college, he worked every bit a staff songwriter for the novelty label Pickwick Records (where he had a shaver hitting inwards 1964 amongst a dance-song parody called "The Ostrich"). In the mid-Sixties, Reed befriended Welsh instrumentalist John Cale, a classically trained violist who had performed amongst groundbreaking minimalist composer La Monte Young. Reed as well as Cale formed a band called the Primitives, as well as then changed their elevate to the Warlocks. After coming together guitarist Sterling Morrison as well as drummer Maureen Tucker, they became the Velvet Underground. With a stark audio as well as ominous look, the band caught the attending of Andy Warhol, who incorporated the Velvets into his Exploding Plastic Inevitable. "Andy would demonstrate his movies on us," Reed said. "We wore dark hence yous could see the movie. But nosotros were all wearing dark anyway."

"Produced" yesteryear Warhol as well as met amongst total commercial indifference when it was released inwards early on 1967, VU’s debut The Velvet Underground & Nico stands every bit a landmark on par amongst the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as well as Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde. Reed's matter-of-fact descriptions of New York’s bohemian demimonde, rife amongst allusions to drugs as well as S&M, pushed beyond fifty-fifty the Rolling Stones’ darkest moments, piece the heavy doses of distortion as well as dissonance for its ain sake revolutionized stone guitar. The band’s 3 subsequent albums – 1968’s fifty-fifty to a greater extent than corrosive sounding White Light/White Heat, 1969’s fragile, folk-toned The Velvet Underground as well as 1970’s Loaded, which despite beingness recorded piece he was leaving the group, contained 2 Reed standards, “Rock & Roll” as well as “Sweet Jane,” were similarly ignored. But they’d live embraced yesteryear time to come generations, cementing the Velvet Underground’s condition every bit the nearly influential American stone band of all time....MUCH MORE