Lou Reed is one of the few major literary word artists in pop history is rich. After leaving his band Velvet Underground in 1970 he left his mark on this decade with impressive solo albums like Transformer Berlin and produced by David Bowie. His growing body of work then was of varying quality and experienced only in the course of the eighties new heights with albums like The Blue Mask and New York.
Throughout his career he regularly special collaborations including his former bandmate John Cale and eccentric theater director Robert Wilson. He was always a big inscrutable city poet and arguably one of the most influential songwriters of the twentieth century. Reed was married to the American artist Laurie Anderson. He died at the age of 71 on October 27, 2013 from liver disease.more