Lou Reed avliden 27/10 -13

Death
In April 2013, Reed underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland. Afterwards he claimed on his website to be 'bigger and stronger' than ever. On October 27, 2013, Reed died at the age of 71 at his home in Southampton, New York, on Long Island.[46][47][48][49] Tributes were paid to Reed on Twitter, including those from Salman Rushdie, Samuel L. Jackson, Lenny Kravitz,[50] Ricky Gervais, Ryan Adams, Elijah Wood, and many others.[51][50] John Cale, his Velvet Underground bandmate, posted on his Facebook: "The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet…I’ve lost my ‘school-yard buddy’".

Innan han startade The Velvet Underground tillsammans med Nico, John Cale och Andy Warhol, var rockmusik något - i jämförelse - enkelt och skojigt. Det var något man skuttade omkring till och älskade i tre och halv minut. Sedan sprang man vidare till nästa låt.

The Velvet Underground tog med rocken ner i en källare som den aldrig har kommit upp ur sedan dess.

1959.
Reeds föräldrar skriver in sonen på Creedmore State Psychiatric Hospital i Queens för att stävja hans ”homosexuella tendenser”. Han behandlas med Thorazine och elchocker, något han beskriver i låten ”Kill your sons” från 1974.

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/tidslinje-det-borjade-i-brooklyn/

While at Syracuse he had his first gay love affair, but for the next decade Lou dated both men and women in a sexually ambiguous, drug-fueled haze.

“I have such a heavy resentment thing because of all the prejudices against my being gay. How can anybody gay keep their sanity?” He also made this statement, “I just wouldn’t want listeners to be under a false impression. I want them to know that if they’re liking a man, he’s a gay one – from top to bottom. You want to know the real Lou Reed? Turn around. Now bend over.”

http://gayinfluence.blogspot.se/2013/01/lou-reed.html