Lou Reed commented, throughout hisĬareer, that rock music was expected to be such a basic primitive art form, a "mutant child medium" that anyone who'd come along "with even half a mind" would dominate the intelligentīack at the beginning, your old scribe first began to take notice of Lou Reed when a school friend loaned his copy of the newly released Berlin album.Īlthough disliked by Velvets and Transformer fans alike, on hearing Berlin, it was obvious that here was something so original that it was a watershed moment. Lou Reed'sĭry voice, superficially atonal but actually deeply expressive, drew contemporary comparisons with His Bobness, Bob Dylan.
Warhol certainly contributed the wherewithal and the splendid 'peel slowly and see' album sleeve and promoted VU as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Lou Reed emerged, as though fully formed, in 1965 with material that formed the core of the Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album, ostensibly produced by Andy Warhol. National politician vies to be on that heavyweight political show, yet its primary story was the death of an elderly rock singer/guitarist/composer. Yet on Monday, BBC Radio 4's flagship news 'Today Programme' had Lou Reed death bulletins every half-hour every senior UK Record sales and concerts attended only by hardcore fans. The hyperbole spouted since his death contradicts patchy Lou Reed's legacy is impossible to overestimate.īrain Eno's quote at the page top attempts this feat, but falls short. He was with his third wife, the performance artist Laurie Anderson at their Long Island NY apartment.
Lou Reed died, aged 71, on Sunday 27th October 2013, following complications from a liver transplant last year.
"How about at the beginning?" suggest plebs, stage left. Published: November, 2013 Walking on the wild side Lou Reed passes away - 2013 - Hardly anybody bought the Velvet Underground's records,īut almost everybody who did went on to form a band - In MemoriamĪnd poet, photographer, artist, actor, champion of the underdog.
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