Lou Reed pass away!

[Rhodes]

Damn:wah:! RIP!
http://music.yahoo.com/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-rock-pioneer-dead-171511963-rolling-stone.html

[Jimbuna]

RIP buddy, you made me admire a lot of music especially in my younger days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24697765

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ88oTITMoM

[vienna]

This is a major loss, but given the state of Reed's health, not unexpected. His influence on such a broad range of music is incredibly impressive and his impact will be still felt long into the future...

There is one song he wrote simply titled "Rock & Roll" that has been a longtime favorite of mine. Like so many others of my age who grew up along with rock music and rock radio, the lyrics describe perfectly the first, sudden impact of hearing rock music, in those early days, on a radio when rock was very much a four-letter word. I remember how much of popular music was mainly performers like Pat Boone, Patty Paige, and the prefab teen idols like Fabian and Frankie Avalon (precursors to the Biebers and Timberlakes and "boy bands" of today). Elvis was around, but he was mainly a somewhat innoucous "rebel" who was simply too polite and "nice" to be a culture changer...

My father came home from sea one Christmas when I was about 8 or 9 years old and he gave my sister and I each one of the then new transistor pocket radios. These radios were capable of receiving some rather distant stations. I would put my radio under my pillow at night to dampen the volume and search up and down the dial to find new stations and new music. I found a couple of great jazz and classical stations and a few other interesting non-music stations. One night I picked up a very powerful station braodcasting from where, I did not know. But there it was: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Gene Vincent, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Johhny Otis, Ike & Tina Turner and many others. The station played just about everything but the stale pop music of our local stations. I was hooked on real rock, not Elvis rock, and the blues, R&B, soul and many other subsets of this new music. Everytime I hear Lou's song "Rock & Roll", I think of how true the Lyrics are for so many of us:


Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there's nothin' happening at all
Every time she put on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all
Not at all

One fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
And she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
Ooohhh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
Hey baby, rock 'n' roll

Despite all the amputation
You could dance to a rock 'n' roll station
And it was all right
It was all right
Hey babe

Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there's nothin' happening at all
Two TV sets, two Cadillac cars
Ahhh, hey, ain't help me nothin' at all
Not at all

One fine morning, she heard on a New York station
She couldn't believe what she heard at all
Not at all

Despite the amputation
You could dance to a rock 'n' roll station
It was all right
It was all right
Oh, now here she comes now-now

Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there's nothin' happening at all
Yeah, every time she put on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all
Not at all

Then one fine morning, she put on a New York station
And she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancing to that fine-fine music
Ahh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
Rock 'n' roll

...

Thanks Lou, for all the great music, all the great memories, all that you did for all of us whose lives were "saved by rock 'n' roll
"...

RIP


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[darius359au]

R.I.P Lou Reed ,I grew up with his music ,I was 8 when he released Transformer and it's always been one of my favourite albums.

[Jimbuna]

R.I.P Lou Reed ,I grew up with his music ,I was 8 when he released Transformer and it's always been one of my favourite albums.

Still got that on vinyl :cool: