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Lou Reed (March 2, 1942 - October 27, 2013), formerly known as Lewis Allen Reed, was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, singer, music Home, producer, photographer.

Lou Reed recorded his first album when he was 14 years old. In 1965, he formed the Velvet Underground with keyboardist John Cale. In 1972, he released his first self-titled album, and his first live album "Rock and Roll Animals" was released in March 1974. Lou Reed released many albums during his solo career. Among them, "Transformers", produced with David Bowie in 1972, produced Lou Reed's only top 20 hit so far. 's hit song "Walking Along the Deserted Place."

Chinese name: Lou Reed

Foreign name: LouReed

Alias: LewisAllenReed

Nationality: United States

Date of birth: March 2, 1942

Date of death: October 27, 2013

Occupation: Singer, musician, producer, photographer

Representative work: "The Velvet Underground and Nicole"

Band: The Velvet Underground

Music type: Rock , experimental rock, pre-punk, etc.

Personal experience

Lou Reed was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 2, 1942. In 1965, he formed the Velvet Underground with keyboardist John Cale and was the lead singer. Reed, who is also a guitarist, has always been the focus of all parties. This group was discovered by pop art master Andy Warhol and served as manager. It is not only an important band in the development of New York rock music, but also its rough and anti-commercial system. The concept of rock's original spirit has also led them to be praised as the ancestors of underground music or non-mainstream music. As the leader and main composer, Lou Reed is revered as the godfather of underground music by future generations.

In 1970, Reed left the group and went to the UK to think about his future music direction. He released his first solo album of the same name two years later; his first live album "Rock & Roll Animal" was released in March 1974. Lou Reed's latest live album "Animal Serenade" is exactly the 30th anniversary of the aforementioned "Rock & Roll Animal" which was well received by all parties and was recorded at the New York Conservatory of Music.

Many of Lou Reed's songs are narrative, and the content is very important to the listener. There are works of inner reflection and social narrative, as well as songs with sex and drugs as the content. The music becomes more ups and downs as the track is arranged, and the listener enters the "Ecstasy" realm; one does not need to experience it personally to enter the "Heroin" world.

According to RollingStone reports, Lou Reed, the lead singer and guitarist of the famous American musician Velvet Underground, passed away on October 27, 2013, U.S. time, at the age of 71. The cause of his death has not been announced, but he underwent a liver transplant in May 2013.

Music works

Following the release of "The Raven" based on the poetry collection of Edgar Allan Poe in early 2003, three months later, LouReed released another album " "NYCMAN" is released. However, this is not a new album, but a collection, which includes his works from 1967 to 2003 on 2 CDs, including some of his works in The Velvet Underground in the 1960s, such as "Sweet Jane" and "Rock'N". 'Roll", "I'm Waiting for the Man", "Pale Blue Eyes"_Some live records "Kill Your Sons", "I'll Be Your Mirror", "Heroin", and some recent big hits "Walkon the Wild Side", "Berlin", "Vicious", " NYCMan", "Dirty Blvd", etc. There is also a killer cut that includes the unreleased version of "WhoAmI? (Tripitena's Song)", a hit song from "The Raven". Judging from the above works, this collection does have its appeal, because most of Lou Reed's charm can be found in it.

Character Achievements

As one of the leading veterans in today's rock industry, Lou Reed's music career spans nearly half a century from the 1960s to the present, and has witnessed the evolution of contemporary music culture. Thousands of weather. After leaving the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's solo career experienced several ups and downs over more than thirty years before finally reaching fruition and becoming a godfather-like figure worshiped by hundreds of millions of music fans around the world.

When mentioning Lou Reed, one cannot avoid the pop art trend that was in full swing in the 1950s and 1960s. In that era and society, the cultural pattern of the Western world broke away from the elite aesthetic system. The extremely free creation and appreciation forms of Pop Art, which were life-oriented, civilian-oriented, and cheap, gained instant support among the young people at that time, and became popular among young people at that time. In a very short period of time, it swept across the entire Western art landscape.

In the United States, Andy Warhol, as the superstar King of Pop Art, showed his talents in art and film, but he also secretly had a special liking for music. He got acquainted with several troubled youths headed by Lou Reed, and then produced a weird album with a yellow banana on the cover.

What happened after that has been spread as expired news for decades, "That album only sold a few dozen copies, and the people who bought it became rock stars in the future." The Velvet Underground as a pioneer of alternative rock Grandfather figures, they were not affected by the "prime period" of the Beatles at that time, even relatively. The Beatles did psychedelic addition, and Lou Reed did subtraction. He didn't care about how many records he could sell. His resolute attitude of "being himself" was the essential reason why his charm and talent would last for decades.

"Life was saved by rock&roll", a famous saying sung by Lou Reed in "ROCK&ROLL", is still believed by countless people. Lou Reed shaped THEEVELVETUNDERGROUNG with his genius paranoia and willfulness, and ultimately destroyed it. Lou Reed has always appeared in music as a philosophical scholar. He injects a religious and introspective silence into the entire band. The band left a profound mark in the world's rock history. In the following ten years, countless rock artists followed their footsteps and inherited their consciousness. Lou Reed eventually went solo and slowly separated from V. U. The shadow of WHITENOISE, but its whispering singing style, all these unique features have repeatedly shown Lou Reed's status as such a great one. In 1972, Lou Reed released his first solo album "Lou Reed", which included ten works. At a time when the Velvet Underground was still hot, the album didn't receive more attention. Of course, the overall quality of the album is not perfect, the style is a bit scattered, and it does not show the full level of Lou Reed. But as Lou Reed's first cry, it has the same revelatory significance as the Velvet Underground's Yellow Banana album.