Lou Reed 1942 - 2013

[Dedworth]

Lou Reed has died aged 71


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaWSOlASWc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGHPjfeQGU

RIP Lou

[Terpe]

RIP Lou Reed

The original crusty rocker


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

[Terpe]

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."

Source:-
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027
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[grahamw48]

Of course a huge part of my generation. I won't even try to add to what has been and will be written about him.

71 years is a short life these days. :NoNo:

RIP sir, and thanks for the music and the memories.

[stevewool]

wow so young still, great music, just makes me more adamant i am taking early retirement

[Arthur Little]

71 years is a short life these days. :NoNo:

:iagree:, Graham ... well ... :anerikke: ... at my age, I'd have to, :cwm24: wouldn't I?

[Arthur Little]

wow so young still, great music, just makes me more adamant i am taking early retirement

I did, Steve, :icon_rolleyes: ... and I've NEVER regretted it! :nono-1-1: ... not once.

[grahamw48]

I would imagine you haven't abused your liver quite as much as he probably had though Arthur. :wink:

[Arthur Little]

I would imagine you haven't abused your liver quite as much as he probably had though Arthur. :wink:

:NoNo: ... not my liver, you're right. ... but I've always had a 'sweet tooth', :hubbahubba: ... and now I'm diabetic. :bigcry:

[Terpe]

To be honest, if I'd known I would last this long I would have taken better care of myself :olddude:

[Dedworth]

Another couple of classics


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QNM2sXeHY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIdc0NGumVc

[grahamw48]

Kindred spirits, and Bowie one of my absolute favourites. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

To be honest, if I'd known I would last this long I would have taken better care of myself :olddude:

:icon_lol: :xxgrinning--00xx3:

I would have slowed down a bit and done things properly, knowing I WAS actually still going to be alive after 40. :doh

[les_taxi]

R.I.P Lou Reed

[lordna]

I think the stuff he did with Velvet underground really was some of the best....for example:-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQzaLr1enE