Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side Punk Poet Gone at 71
Lou Reed, once The Velvet Underground‘s frontman, main songwriter, and co-founder who left the group and had his first solo hit with Walk on the Wild Side has gone at 71. The man often called a punk poet died on Sunday as reported by Rolling stone.
I first discovered him with the magnificent The Blue Mask and then worked back from there to Transformer, The Bells, Growing Up in Public, etc,; and forward to New York and Magic and Loss, which I consider to be a masterpiece. The news of his passing has floored me to say the least.
Agreed! Reed was one of a kind, and we’ll not see his like again, I fear. Rest in peace, indeed.
This is sad, sad news. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time and have a fairly large assortment of albums; Transformer, The Blue Mask, Magic and Loss, just to name a few. Lou Reed was a poet, a punk, a musician. Above everything else he was artist extraordinaire. Rest in Peace, sir.