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Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
Rolling Stone ^ | 10/27/13 | Jon Dolan

Posted on 10/27/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 2013obituaries; andywarhol; drugs; heroin; loureed; music; obituary; paleblueeyes; rock; rockandroll; rockmusic; velvetunderground; wastedliver
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1 posted on 10/27/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

RIP


2 posted on 10/27/2013 11:01:23 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

Noy my favorite rendition, but ...

walk on the Wild Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaWSOlASWc


3 posted on 10/27/2013 11:03:19 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Puppage

Good singer, great songs, lousy leftist, commie, pinko politics-wise.


4 posted on 10/27/2013 11:03:46 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: BunnySlippers

RIP on the wild side


5 posted on 10/27/2013 11:04:11 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BunnySlippers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7QnF6ieKY


6 posted on 10/27/2013 11:05:15 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: BunnySlippers

I love this song.

Perfect Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y


7 posted on 10/27/2013 11:05:56 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: BunnySlippers
"massively influential"?

I don't think so. He always influenced me to listen to something else.

8 posted on 10/27/2013 11:06:01 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: BunnySlippers

A very very sad day for those of us into depressing music. Ironically this has been a great year for us with lots of amazing non-cheerful music coming out.


9 posted on 10/27/2013 11:06:20 AM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: BunnySlippers

A total bum.

I stood in line once for about an hour to get his autograph and for him to just mention a few words for my teenage daughter for whom I was getting the book as a gift. He blew me off and just signed his name. The line was only about twenty deep. When I told my daughter, she blew him off too.

RIP I suppose.


10 posted on 10/27/2013 11:06:49 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: BunnySlippers

Looked like a corpse for the last 10 years anyway.


11 posted on 10/27/2013 11:06:59 AM PDT by festusbanjo (November 6, 2012, the day America died. It was a good run.)
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To: BunnySlippers

Standing on the corner

Suitcase in my hand


12 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:13 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: flaglady47

Yeah, as so many “artists” are. Great musician.


13 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:15 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: discostu

If he winds up in Hell, it means he’s going to wind up listening to “Machine Metal Music” for all of eternity.


14 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BunnySlippers
I was talking to somebody just the other day about 80's music. Reed's, "New York," was for me, one of the defining albums of that decade. Yes, he was a rabid leftist, but one hell of a musician.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8-Fm1vfw0

15 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:48 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: discostu

I’ll drink to that.


16 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:50 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: BunnySlippers

Dang. This is a shock.

Big Lou fan.

RIP.


17 posted on 10/27/2013 11:07:59 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: BunnySlippers

He shall be missed by his fans, and his detractors, both, for reasons known unto them, only.

His music was something different to hear, in my during-and-post-Vietnam years. Avant-garde folks are always seen as ‘a little strange’, but he and the others have become part of our national musical identity, whether we, ourselves, think they deserved it, or not.


18 posted on 10/27/2013 11:08:14 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: BunnySlippers

The ObamaCare Death Panels in New York wouldn’t give him a liver transplant so he got it done in Ohio instead. Typical liberal hypocrisy. Death Panels for thee but not for me.


19 posted on 10/27/2013 11:09:02 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: dfwgator

And if he winds up in Heaven it’ll be Berlin, which is kind of funny when you remember the engineer thought the album was too depressing to unleash on the world and stole the masters.


20 posted on 10/27/2013 11:09:12 AM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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