according to the rolling stones magazine Lou Reed, the founder of the band the Velvet Underground and one of the most influential in rock music, passed awayat the age of 71 in New York.
Reed died this sunday of an illness related to a May liver transplant, according to Andrew Wylie, who said the singer had been frail for months.
this is a small part of his bio from wikipedia :
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American rock musician and songwriter. After being guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, his solo career spanned several decades. The Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, but the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era – hence Brian Eno's famous quote that while the Velvet Underground's debut album only sold 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
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