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Big Rock Poet, legendary Grantler: Lou Reed was so uncomfortable as his music as a human being. With The Velvet Underground he laid the roots of underground rock, as a solo artist, he told fearless of drugs, addiction and outsiders – all chapters of the Great American novel.

“I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room”, Lou Reed said in an interview in the early seventies. Even then, the New York-based musician was one of the most colorful personalities of the scariest and rock’n’roll. Richard Hell no, no Sid Vicious, none of the broken punk rocker who had begun her career because of him with whom he would never have to do anything, his dark destructive power could only come close.

At that time, Reed had just published with David Bowie help his second solo album “Transformer”, which contained the later hit “Walk on the Wild Side”, the former Velvet Underground singer was the Black Prince of drugs, corruption , violence and poverty stricken east coast metropolis of New York. If he does not zuführte illegal substances intravenously, he drank bottles of Johnny Walker Black Label – a human abyss of self-hatred and megalomania. Interviews with him were a torment “He fixes you with those rusty insect eyes, he creaks and croaks and lies to your face, and you are helpless against it,” wrote the U.S. Popjournalist Lester Bangs on a conversation with Reed in 1973.

Instead of alcohol, although he took only water and an occasional snack against diabetes, but otherwise Bangs’ description had some 40 years later is still valid. I met Lou Reed most recently in late summer 2011, when he started his monstrous rebellious soundtrack of Frank Wedekind’s play “Lulu” brought out along with the rock band Metallica: a lizard-like, wiry man, eyeing you with contempt and seems to be waiting just waiting for you do not sufficiently versed in his oeuvre or make the mistake of asking something private – then either be offensive to discipline yourself (“I’ve just told you, do not listen to me”), or simply the room without saying a word to leave.

Stories about painful, humiliating encounters between Reed and journalists, there are dozens, they are part of the myth.

Lou Reed Died:Electric Shock Blues

"Velvet Underground" Portrait
“Velvet Underground” Portrait

Lou Reed was born on 2 Born March 1942 in Brooklyn and grew up as the son of Jewish parents in Long Iceland . When he was a teenager , he had an electric shock therapy to endure , of which his family hoped that she would cure him of his bisexuality.

Lou Reed described the ordeal in 1996 in the book ” Please Kill Me” : “They shove this thing in the neck, so that you do not verschluckst your own tongue , and they attach electrodes to your head (…) The effect is that you ‘re going to lose your memories and vegetables. , you can read , because you have to scroll to page 17 already back again to the beginning of a book. ” As a result of shock therapy was Reed’s left of his face partially paralyzed, even if he was joking , his face remained disturbingly rigid.

After studying ( journalism, film directing , and creative writing ) at Syracuse University , the guitarist and songwriter was the mid-sixties in the creative buzz of New York’s Lower East Side for life. Together with the classically educated Welshman John Cale , Maureen Tucker the drummer and guitarist Sterling Morrison in 1965 he founded the band The Velvet Underground , the name was based on a then popular pulp novel about the sexual subculture.

Lou Reed Died:Relentlessly to the end

Like no other singer of his generation, Reed could tell the stories from the edge of society, from the swash to the abyss and the lust addiction and delimitation : “Heroin ,” ” I’m Waiting For The Man ” or the ambivalent drug addiction ballad ” Perfect Day “- his brittle , deep, shocking emotionless voice, actually speaking more than singing, kept him always in front of kitsch and Duselei . All the touching and striking was the echo of his songs. ” One chord is fine. Two chords are already exaggerated. Three chords and you’re at the Jazz ” , he once described his minimalist approach.

Reed’s career never went without breaks. Was a successful album , he sent a difficult afterwards . The hit album ” Transformer” followed the verkünstelte junkie epic ” Berlin ” , the success of ” Rock’n’Roll Animal” followed , as in spite of his sperrigstes work , the experimental- instrumental ” Metal Machine Music ” – a day celebrated , early masterpiece of the ” drone ” sound , but for all the times is an ordeal for anyone who has the courage , the cold biting double album to lead to mind .

In the eighties, largely cured of drug and alcohol excesses, related reed much energy on regional policy, was involved in humanitarian projects and social conditions in his hometown. Much of it went into the album “New York” in 1989, poured on the Reed topics such as AIDS, crime, religion and power politics behind intimate song-stories. From the angry rock monster, a chronicler of everyday life had become an art-loving writer, from whose line but still dripping acid. In 2000, his last studio album “Ecstasy” was released.

The past decade Reed spent most of it to apply his love of art and literature in other areas . Along with the theater director Robert Wilson , he created the Edgar Allan Poe tribute “The Raven” and published two volumes of his own photographs . In 2008 he married his longtime friend and musical partner , performance artist Laurie Anderson. She was his third wife after Bettye Kronstadt and the British designer Sylvia Morales .

Reed remained artistically active and creative to the end, made ​​guest appearances on albums by Gorillaz , the Killers or Antony Hegarty . And still he could put a space in awesome, fearful silence only by his intimidating presence . During the recording sessions for ” Lulu ” album he even brought Metallica singer James Hetfield, a really hard nut to crack , cry so hard and intense, but also rewarding was working with this relentless uncomfortable , which was for himself the least grace .

The madness of the sixties and seventies he had survived, perhaps even found his peace and artistic fulfillment. But Reed’s decades of dealing with drug and alcohol demanded more tribute. In May this year, the hard diabetics had to undergo a liver transplant. On 27 October Lou Reed died at the age of 71 years in New York.

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