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Archived from the original on May 19, The band's best work utilized minimal chords and tempos. Retrieved April 30, Even though the Velvet Underground was never commercially successful, it proved greatly influential. By coincidence, Dando phoned MacColl two days after the backing track was recorded to let her know he was performing in London with his band The Lemonheads and he agreed to provide vocals on the track while in the UK.

Reed's solo career was marked by sharp turns in image and musical style. Far Out. He also reunited with Cale for a series of concerts in New York. The Raven , released both as a single and double album, was originally conceived as companion music to POE-try, a theater project with stage director Robert Wilson. Louden, Stephen H.

Music Week described "Perfect Day" as a "hugely sentimental ballad" with Dando "shockingly in deep-voiced crooner mode". Reed played all six dates on the Amnesty International tour and was also a contributor to the Artists Against Apartheid Sun City record. Retrieved January 6, If utopia can exist within a pop song, this Bowie-produced Transformer tune is explicitly it.

He wanted to write hit songs, and he desperately wanted to be famous. It married Reed's bleak vision with the writings of Edgar Allan Poe , an American writer who greatly influenced the French symbolist poets. Archived from the original on May 25, Some commentators have further seen the lyrical subtext as displaying Reed's romanticized attitude towards a period of his own addiction to heroin.

As a founding member of the Velvet Underground in the s, he chronicled that decade with songs that journeyed into the worlds of drugs and sexual hedonism. Reed's solo career began in He spent some time recuperating from his tumultuous years with the Velvets — which were marked by drug addiction and sexual anarchy — and worked in an office; eventually, though, he decided to accept a solo recording contract.

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In , along with classically trained violinist and pianist John Cale, bass and guitar player Sterling Morrison, drummer Maureen Tucker, and singer Nico, Reed formed the Velvet Underground. More than just an alternative to the prevailing s culture of hippies and flower power, the Velvet Underground was a band with an artistic and political vision beyond the realms of popular music.

Los Angeles Times. Throughout his unpredictable career, he relentlessly explored new styles in a multitude of genres. In an interview in , Reed stated, "No. Their music was stark in contrast to the hippie-style love songs of the west coast. It featured Lou Reed himself and other major artists in what the Financial Times described as "an astonishing line-up of world class performers".

After a year estrangement, Reed reunited with John Cale in and released Songs for Drella , a musical biography and tribute to Andy Warhol.