Lou Reed Dead at 71

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Lou Reed Dead at 71

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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.

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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Heroin, Waiting for the Man, Sweet Jane . . . Lou Reed was the bisexual front man for Warhol's proto-punk experiment but the real musician who made it all work was John Cale. Nico was an embarrassment, and nobody cares about the drummer.

Lou Reed would have been nowhere without John Cale. Later in his career Reed could milk his reputation with a hired rhythm section, but that's all it was.

John Cale was much like Nils Lofgren: a master musician who put group performance before ego. Reed was like a bisexual, addicted Davy Jones.
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I don't know anything about his life, but I like the Velvet Underground self-titled album and Tansformer.

The cultural affairs minister(or something to that effect) at the Vatican tweeted some lyrics from A Perfect Day when news of Reed's death broke. That's some wide appeal and influence.
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