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Lou Reed Wiki Biography

Lewis Allan Reed was a musician, singer and songwriter born on 2nd March 1942, in Brooklyn, New York City USA, He was known for an extraordinary music career both as the guitarist, vocalist and main songwriter of the Velvet Underground band, but also his solo career which lasted for nearly five decades. Two of his albums entered the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. He passed away in 2013.

Have you ever wondered how rich Lou Reed was? According to sources it has been estimated that Reed’s overall net worth was $15 million, accumulated during a 55 year- long successful music career. Even after his death, his net worth continues to increase through his copyrights and publishing interests.

Although born in Brooklyn, Lou spent most of his childhood in Long Island, New York City, where he grew up in a Jewish family. He started showing an interest in music from an early age, and played guitar in several bands during his high school years. Later, he enrolled at Syracuse University, from which he graduated with a degree in writing and film. He moved into New York City, where he began writing songs for Pickwick Records. When he scored a minor hit with his parody single “The Ostrich” in 1964, Pickwick hired a band to back Reed’s vocals, and that’s when he met his future band-mate John Cale. The two became good friends, roommates and collaborators, and eventually founded “The Velvet Underground”; the band gained the attention of artist Andy Warhol who introduced them to the New York art scene and claimed some ownership of the band. Their first album, “The Velvet Underground & Nico” is considered to be one of the most influential in rock history. However, due to disagreements among the members, the band fell apart by 1970 after releasing two more albums. Regardless, Lou’s net worth was well established.

After leaving the band, Reed shortly worked temporarily as an accountant for his father’s firm, before signing a solo recording contract with RCA Records. His first self-titled album contained versions of unreleased Velvet Underground songs, but did not achieve much success. Soon after, in 1972, Lou released his second album, “Transformer” which was co-produced by David Bowie and contained the hit singles “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Perfect Day”, which are widely considered to be the best of his solo career. In 1990, there was a short-lived reunion of The Velvet Underground, which was interrupted by a quarrel between Cale and Reed. Lou continued performing and recording for several more years, releasing more than 16 albums over the years, all widely differing in styles, and including a period of so-called ‘glam rock’, and other experiments during the early 2000s, some popular but never quite with the consistency he was searching for.

Apart from being an extraordinary musician, Lou also compiled and published two books of photographs: “Emotions in Action” and “Lou Reed’s New York”.

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Lou Reed Quotes

• I think everybody has a number of personalities, just in themselves. It’s not just people having different personalities. I mean you wake up in the morning and say, ‘Wonder which one of them is around today?’ You find out which one and send him out. Fifteen minutes later someone else shows up. That’s why if there’s no one left to talk to you can listen to a couple of them talking in your head.
• [April 1977, in “Melody Maker”] It’s been a long time since I spoke to any journalists. They are a species of foul vermin. I wouldn’t hire people like you to guard my sewer. Journalists are morons. Idiots. I don’t perform to idiots. Journalists are ignorant and stupid.
• I didn’t get in it for the money, and I’m the same way now. I do it for me. Because I like doing it.
• One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
• The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
• People think that I work out but it’s all t’ai chi.
• If I don’t do [t’ai chi] my body really hurts. It just starts aching and hurting. It’s terrible. To me it’s candy. It’s my idea of fun. But it requires the tenacity of a lion. Otherwise it shows and you’re in class and you’re the one going in the wrong direction. But if you tag into it, it’s beyond belief. It makes me feel great in every way. It gives you tons of energy. It makes you very strong, very balanced and very focused. It’s good for everything.
• [2007, on the release of his album “Hudson River Wind Meditations”] It’s geared up to help to you to focus. I call it centering. I use the music all the time. I leave it on all day because living in the city it has an intriguing ability to absorb the outside sound and kind of weave that into itself somehow. So a car horn or a fire engine–all this background noise – just somehow filters into it in a nice way. I’m not sure that I know why, but I know that it does that.
• Meditation doesn’t have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. And no matter what happens, keep counting. I personally like it when I can feel that I’m actually moving the beads when I’m counting. And once you make it to a minute, see if you can do a minute-and-a-half. Eventually you can do it without the beads.
• [on colleague John Cale] I only hope that one day John will be recognized as . . . the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he’s such a great musician. He’s completely mad–but that’s because he’s Welsh.
• We had vast objections to the whole San Francisco scene. It’s just tedious, a lie and untalented. They can’t play and they certainly can’t write . . . You know, people like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead are just the most untalented bores that ever came up. Just look at them physically, I mean, can you take Grace Slick seriously? It’s a joke! It’s a joke! The kids are being hyped.
• You can’t beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Lou Reed Important Facts

• When he was age 11 his family moved to Freeport, NY.
• In early May 2013, Reed underwent liver transplant surgery.
• Resides in New York City.
• Winner of the 2005 Ivor Novello Special International Award.
• In 1958 a 14 year-old Reed was part of a doo-wop band called The Shades and recorded a single, “So Blue” b/w “Leave Her For Me”. Alan Freed played the single on his show; Reed commented later “I got royalties of 78 cents.”.
• Attended Syracuse University.
• He was with the group The Velvet Underground until 1970; returned when they reformed in the 1990s.
• Lived with Laurie Anderson beginning in 1995 prior to their marriage in 2008.
• Produced the album Metal Machine Music in response to RCA Records’ demands for a quick follow-up to his top-ten LP Sally Can’t Dance. The hour-plus of electronic noise was almost buried as a classical release, but instead was promoted as a pop album. The resulting backlash nearly ruined the label and Reed’s reputation; both later issued apologies, while the album remains a musical enigma.
• His guitar in the early days of The Velvet Underground included a built-in electronic tremolo. Reed sometimes turned this up, and tuned all the strings to D; the resulting sound he called Ostrich guitar.
• Spent some weeks in a mental hospital in his teens, at his parents’ insistence; his treatment included electroshock therapy and medication. Reed reflected on the experience later in songs, “Kill Your Sons” being one of them.
• “Sweet Jane,” “Rock and Roll,” “Femme Fatale,” “Walk on the Wild Side,” and “Satellite of Love” are among his best-known songs.

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