Lou Reed





Lou Reed

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March 02, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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Lou Reed is an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973). The band gained little mainstream attention during their career, but in hindsight became one of the most influential of their era. As the Velvets’ principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined in rock and roll, including bondage and S&M ("Venus in Furs"), transvestites ("Sister Ray" and "Candy Says"), drug culture ("Heroin" and "I'm Waiting for the Man"), and transsexuals undergoing surgery ("Lady Godiva's Operation"). As a guitarist, he was a pioneer in the use of distortion, high volume feedbac...more


Average rating: 4.13 · 277 ratings · 24 reviews · 17 distinct works
Pass Thru Fire: The Collect...
4.28 of 5 stars 428 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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Between Thought and Express...
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The Raven
3.93 of 5 stars 393 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Lou Reed: Emotion in Action
3.5 of 5 stars 350 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003
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Lou Reed's New York
4.4 of 5 stars 440 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006
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Hudson River Wind Meditations
4.67 of 5 stars 467 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007
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4.33 of 5 stars 433 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009
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Romanticism
4.5 of 5 stars 450 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009
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Schwann Spectrum (Spring 2000)
5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000
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Fra Pensiero Ed Espressione...
4.0 of 5 stars 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993
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“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”
Lou Reed

“You're going to reap just what you sow”
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“Things always seem to end before they start”
Lou Reed, Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics



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