RIP Lou Reed

[hangover]

Happy trails Lou...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvfgVCJm4A]Lou Reed - Foot Of Pride [Best Live Version] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[J.E.D]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CQ7-nRSOt8]The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BDBoop]

Neil Gaiman on Lou Reed: 'His songs were the soundtrack to my life' | Music | The Guardian

The things he sang about were transgressive, always on the edge of what you could say: people pointed to the mention of oral sex in Walk on the Wild Side, but the easy gender changes were more important in retrospect, the casual way that Transformer took nascent gay culture and made it mainstream.

Lou Reed's music stayed part of my life, whatever else was happening.

I named my daughter Holly after Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, who I'd discovered in Walk on the Wild Side. When Holly was 19, I made her a playlist of more songs she had loved as a small girl, the ones she'd remembered and the ones she'd forgotten, which led to our having the Conversation. I dragged songs from her childhood over to the playlist – Nothing Compares 2 U and I Don't Like Mondays and These Foolish Things, and then came Walk on the Wild Side. "You named me from this song, didn't you?" said Holly as the first bass notes sang. "Yup," I said. Reed started singing.

Holly listened to the first verse, and for the first time, actually heard the words. "Shaved her legs and then he was a she …? He?"

"That's right," I said, and bit the bullet. We were having the Conversation. "You were named after a drag queen in a Lou Reed song." She grinned like a light going on. "Oh Dad. I do love you," she said. Then she wrote what I'd said down on the back of an envelope, in case she forgot it. I'm not sure that I'd ever expected the Conversation to go quite like that.