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Lou Reed

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Lou Reed

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Also known as Lewis Allen Reed, Lewis Allan Reed, Lewis A. Reed

American rock musician (1942–2013)

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Lou Reed was an American male artist whose career spanned from 1964 to 2013. He was recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection. His musical output has been categorized under genres including rock, classic rock, glam rock, proto-punk, art rock, hard rock, noise, and pop rock.

Born on March 2, 1942, Reed died on October 27, 2013. He is associated with works such as *Do Angels Need Haircuts?* and *Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu*. His recorded statements include "Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!" and "Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass."

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
02 March 1942
Died
27 October 2013
Works
21

Top works

  • Do Angels Need Haircuts?
  • Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
  • Lou Reed
  • Lou Reed
  • American poet

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1942-03-02
Active to
2013-10-27
art rockglam rockhard rocknoisepop rockrock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,343,419
Total plays
54,343,841

Tags

rockclassic rocksinger-songwriterglam rockproto-punk

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. Although not commercially successful during its existence, the Velvet Underground became regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music. Reed's distinctive deadpan voice <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,868x

  2. SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector

    · 2016 · cited 21,806x

  3. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

    · 2020 · cited 17,360x

  4. Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

    · 1988 · cited 16,698x

  5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,961x

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Quotes

  • “Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!”
  • “LR: "Are you political, Lou? Audience: "Yeah, are you?" LR:"Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it."”
  • “Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”
  • “Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.”
  • “This is the impossible level, boys. Impossible doesn't mean very difficult, very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize, impossible is eating the sun.”
  • “He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Lou Reed, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Artwork

Untitled

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. Although not commercially successful during its existence, the Velvet Underground came to be regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music. Reed's distinctive deadpan voice, poetic and transgressive lyrics, and experimental guitar playing were trademarks throughout his long career.

Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Angus MacLise formed the Velvet Underground in 1965. After building a reputation in the avant garde music scene, the Velvet Underground gained the attention of Andy Warhol, who became the band's manager. The Velvet Underground became something of a fixture at The Factory, Warhol's art studio, and served as his "house band" for various projects. The band released its first album, now with drummer Moe Tucker and featuring German singer Nico, in 1967, and parted ways with Warhol shortly thereafter. Following several lineup changes and three more little-heard albums, Reed quit the band in 1970.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lou Reed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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