Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lou ReedLou Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an 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 feedback, and nonstandard tunings.

Reed began a long and eclectic solo career in 1971. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", though for more than a decade Reed seemed to willfully evade the mainstream commercial success its chart status offered him. One of rock's most volatile personalities, Reed's work as a solo artist has frustrated critics wishing for a return of The Velvet Underground. The most notable example is 1975's infamous double LP of recorded feedback loops, Metal Machine Music, upon which Reed later commented: "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive." By the late 1980s, however, Reed had won wide recognition as an elder statesman of rock.

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Perfect Day cpspr37 (1)
4075d ago
6 Piano Original
Perfect Day cabazmf (1)
4783d ago
3 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
VOL 1 FULL LYRICS AND MUSIC marcopisa62 (26)
4824d ago
20 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Perfect Day terrykinross (6)
4936d ago
3 Piano, Guitar, Vocal, Organ Book
Walk On The Wild Side scotdoc (39)
4940d ago
1 Saxophone Book
Perfect Day evitaa4 (6)
4960d ago
4 Piano Transcription
All his songs juangii (11)
4975d ago
2300 Piano, Guitar Book
Perfect Day WookieValnac (2)
4998d ago
3 Piano Original
Sweet Jane jaksach1 (13)
5005d ago
4 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Perfect Day eviex (3)
5007d ago
3 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Perfect Day Benjamin5020 (2)
5027d ago
3 Piano Original
Perfect Day evitaa4 (6)
5037d ago
3 Piano Original
perfect day pete1234 (4)
5037d ago
5 Piano Other
Perfect Day Robert_The_Robo (15)
5043d ago
3 Piano, Vocal Original
Perfect Day sandro66 (1)
5054d ago
3 Piano Original
Walk On The Wild Side scotdoc (39)
5061d ago
1 Saxophone Book
I'll be your mirror Tummel (5)
5079d ago
5 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Perfect Day nixipixi (1)
5098d ago
3 Piano Other
Perfect Day Dumascusmind (6)
5109d ago
3 Piano Original
Perfect Day alurip (6)
5128d ago
3 Piano Original