Lou Reed, United Nations agency took rock 'n' roll into dark corners as a songster, musician and musician for the Velvet Underground and as a solo creative person, died Sunday, his publiciser aforementioned. He was expire in age of 71.

The publiciser, Peter Noble, confirmed Lou Reed's death however free no details.

Lou Reed had undergone a liver transplant in might, his wife, the musician/performance creative person Laurie Anderson, open over the summer.

Lou Reed was a rock pioneer United Nations agency went from record label songster to a member of the transient however innovative and cogent Velvet Underground. The band and Lou Reed's solo work tackled taboo topics like dependency, psychosis and sexual deviancy in songs that were for the most part spare, muscular and sometimes saturated in feedback.

"Lou Reed's influence is one that there are very solely a small few different figures United Nations agency you'll be able to compare to him," aforementioned Simon Vozick-Levinson, a senior editor at Rolling Stone.

"He spoke implausibly honestly regarding the realities of being an creative person, being someone United Nations agency lived life on one's own terms. He did not ameliorate things. He did not sugarcoat things. He showed life because it very is and that is one thing that created him a real original, and one amongst our nice incomparable artists," he said.

Lou Reed, violist/keyboard player John Cale, musician Sterling Morrison and percussionist Maureen Tucker compete their 1st show because the Velvet Underground in 1965 and shortly thespian the eye of pop creative person Andy Warhol, United Nations agency became their manager. Rock mythology has it that even supposing the cluster sold-out few albums, everybody United Nations agency bought one started a band.

"We had fans United Nations agency created North American country understand it was worthwhile," Tucker told CNN. "But once we were along, actively, we tend to did not have a giant splash just like the Doors or no matter."

Nevertheless, Rolling Stone ranks the group's debut album, "The Velvet Underground and Nico," because the thirteenth greatest of all time. Tunes like "Sweet Jane," from the group's 1970 album "Loaded," became rock standards. Performers from David Jim Bowie to R.E.M. and U2 have cited them as inspiration, and therefore the Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

"The world has lost a fine songster and author. I've lost my 'school-yard sidekick,' "Cale wrote on Twitter.

Tucker referred to as Lou Reed "generous, encouraging and thoughtful." operating with him "sometimes can be trying" to some individuals, however "never to Pine Tree State."

"I guess we tend to learned from one another. We tend to all learned from one another," she said.

In 1970, Lou Reed left the Velvets for a protracted solo career. He had his solely prime forty hit with "Walk on the Wild aspect," from the Bowie-produced 1972 album "Transformer," and Rolling Stone place each that album and 1973's "Berlin" on its prime five hundred list.

Lou Reed "was one amongst the primary artists to experiment with stringed instrument feedback on record and to indicate that kind of ugly noise will really be quite lovely and moving. He also, lyrically, wrote regarding every kind of topics that were taboo before he started exploring them," aforementioned Vozick-Levinson.

He conjointly gave a voice to gay and transgender individuals in a very manner that had ne'er been done before by a preferred creative person that created his work implausibly necessary to several individuals, Vozick-Levinson aforementioned.

In 1982, Lou Lou Reed told The New York Times that his goal wasn't simply to form music, however produce literature.

"People say rock 'n' roll is constricting, however you'll be able to do something you wish, any manner you wish,'' he said. "And my goal has been to form AN album that may speak to individuals the manner Shakespeare speaks to Pine Tree State, the manner James Augustine Aloysius Joyce speaks to Pine Tree State. One thing thereupon quite power; one thing with bite thereto."

And Tucker aforementioned Lou Reed "influenced in all probability several individuals into perhaps reading a lot of, into enjoying music."

"When I actually have been travel, there are youngsters from fifteen years recent to sixty years recent commenting on however they were influenced by Lou and therefore the Velvets," she said.

The band the Pixies wrote on their Twitter page, "R.I.P. LOU REED A LEGEND." Iggy Pop wrote simply: "Devastating news."

Lou Reed won a Grammy award in 1998 for best long-form music video, for a documentary on his career up thereto purpose. Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, referred to as him "an exceptionally talented singer, songwriter, and musician United Nations agency has had a profound impact on rock and roll and our culture,"

"We have lost a real visionary and inventive leader, and his ground breaking work can forever hold its rightful place in music history," Portnow aforementioned.