American musician, performer Lou Reed dead at 71 By Hiram Lee
29 October 2013
Lou Reed, leader of the influential rock band The Velvet Underground, died Sunday at the age of 71. Reed had been battling liver disease for some time, undergoing a liver transplant in April of this year. He is survived by his wife, musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson.
An iconoclastic and often combative artist, Reed’s music exerted a considerable influence over the development of rock music after the 1960s. The influence his music has had on alternative or “indie” rock in particular has been enormous.
The future songwriter and guitarist was born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in a middle class Jewish family in suburban Long Island. His father was a tax accountant and his mother a former beauty queen.
As a boy, Reed fell in love with the R&B and early rock n roll songs he heard on the radio and taught himself to play guitar by listening to those recordings. He played in rock bands during his high school years and adopted the customary anti-establishment dress and behavior.
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