Lou Reed, Biography, Songs, & Facts

Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio albums under Reed’s direction from 1965 to 1970. He also had a successful solo career.

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