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Lou Reed dead?

Lou caught Hep C in the early 60s I believe.
His alcoholism later on didnt help his liver problems either...but he was hospitalised numerous times in the velvets days, as far back as the original line-up.
 
I first heard this cover version by James, who probably were the first band I ever got really properly into:
[video=youtube_share;dZDWSY0EgVQ]http://youtu.be/dZDWSY0EgVQ[/video]
I wasn't at that show,unfortunately -- just saw it when it was released on VHS. (In my bedroom at parents' house, on a Pye colour portable using my nan's old piano-key Ferguson Videostar, and smoking a crafty d00b out of the window while my parents and sister were away. Ah, wonderful memories of a simpler time .....) Since I have a sort of obsessive-compulsive thing about collecting different versions of the same song, this led me to discover the Velvet Underground,and Lou Reed.
 
Lou Reed's widow breaks silence with obituary in local newspaper
Laurie Anderson wrote an East Hampton Star obituary describing Reed's final days before his death Sunday of liver disease
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Lou Reed’s widow Laurie Anderson spoke publicly about her husband’s death for the first time in a local newspaper obituary on Thursday.

Anderson wrote an obituary for Long Island, New York’s East Hampton Star about Reed’s final days before he died of liver disease on 27 October, aged 71.

"Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature,” Anderson said. “He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.”

Reed died in the Springs, New York, home he shared with Anderson. Funeral plans have not been announced.

To our neighbors:

What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.

Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson

his loving wife and eternal friend

John Cale, Reed's longtime friend and a founding member of the Velvet Underground, said on Sunday: "The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet … I've lost my school-yard buddy."

Tributes to the Velvet Underground co-founder poured in following his death, with musicians including Neil Young, Elvis Costello and Arctic Monkeys performing his songs at concerts this week.

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RIP, Lou. Respect to ya, your music was a source of pleasure for me for many years, especially your live performances, and will continue to be great listening. You were a pioneer for the rock world.
 
I only got to see him once, at Glastonbury in 1991 or 1994 (ive been twice and cant remember which year Lou played). I was so far away from the stage though i couldnt even see him. I regret not arriving at the stage an hour or 2 early so as to get right to the front. He was playing a lot ofsongs from his Magic and Loss album. The Glastonbury heathens werent much impressed, and he was quite blankly and coldly received. I enjoyed it a lot though.
 
I aint no great fan of his music but this is one thing he did I <3
From Sonic Youth to Richard D James (Aphex Twin)


 
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