U.S. rock legend Lou Reed died

U.S rock Legend Lou Reed died at the age of 71. With the Velvet Underground, he reinvented the rock’n'roll, ten years after Elvis Presley, making screaming guitars in art galleries, under the guidance of Andy Warhol. He was barely 30 years old when he became the historical figure to whom David Bowie turned to invent decadent rock before all the successive waves of rock, punk to contemporary New York scene, claim his patronage. Tireless provocateur – ready to embrace the cause of the death penalty as well as insultingjournalists who questioned him – he never stopped creating . Until Sunday, October 27, the date of death of Lou Reed, announced by the magazine AmericanRolling Stone .

The musician, aged 71, had undergone a liver transplant earlier this year.According to his agent in the UK , Andrew Wooliscroft, told the British daily The Guardian and the U.S. The New York TimesHis death is linked to the operation.

 

Lou Reed was born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn in a family Jewish (he spent a short documentary, Red Shirley , in one of his aunts, who was born in Belarus and become a union activist in Canada ). He grew up on Long Island in a conformist suburbs. As a teenager, his bisexuality earned him several sessions of ECT, an experience he recounted in the song Kill Your Sons (1974).

In the early 1960s, at Syracuse University, he studied with the poet Delmore Schwartz, which expands the literary horizons of this passionate boy by both the R & B by the free jazz. In New York, where he settled in 1964, Reed met a Welsh musician, guitarist and violist, close circles of contemporary music, John Cale, with whom he formed a group with successive avatars are baptized Primitives , Warlocks and finally Velvet Underground.

With guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Moe Tucker, Reed and Cale sound design at odds with euphoric psychedelic experiences of the moment, they are at the service of texts Lou Reed, who declined the darkest aspects of the human experience , addiction, despair … This unique approach makes out with Andy Warhol, who joined the Velvet Underground to the staging of the permanent Factory, his studio-factory-studio movie .

U.S. rock legend Lou Reed died