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Lou Reed

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born

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

gender

male

website

http://www.loureed.com/00/index.html

genre

Music, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography

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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

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Books by Lou Reed

Average rating: 4.13 · 277 ratings · 24 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics 428 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics 400 avg rating — 92 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Raven 393 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Lou Reed: Emotion in Action 350 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Lou Reed's New York 440 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Hudson River Wind Meditations 467 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Berlin: A Performance by Lou Reed Directed by Julian Schnabel by Lou Reed, Julian Schnabel (Contributor) 433 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Romanticism 450 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Schwann Spectrum (Spring 2000) 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Fra Pensiero Ed Espressione: Testi E Scritti Scelti 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	My rating: