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Signed colour 10" x 8" photo
of Lou Reed. The
photo is hand signed in
silver paint pen.
Price: £27.99
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Lou Reed
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Biography
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician best
known as the guitarist, vocalist and principal songwriter of The Velvet
Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several
decades. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their
career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era. As the Velvet
Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience
that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of
sexual topics and drug culture. As a guitarist, he was a pioneer of many guitar
effects including 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", although for more than a decade he evaded the
mainstream commercial success its chart status offered him. 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, he had garnered recognition by the music community as an elder
statesman of rock.
Read more....
Lou Reed on allmusic.com |
Velvet Underground on allmusic.com |
Velvet Underground on Wikipedia |
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