Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
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Lou Reed, byname of Lewis Allan Reed, was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., and died on October 27, 2013, in Southampton, New York, singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio albums under Reed’s direction from 1965 to 1970.
Reed’s post-Velvets career, though erratic, saw him emerge as a star performer in his own right, albeit an unconventional one, as the chronicler of the misbegotten who trolled New York City’s sleazy after-hours bars, alleys, and drug dens. Reed’s best songs did not judge or exploit his misfit characters; instead, he infused them with rare dignity, and his lyrics pulsed with literary ambition.
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