Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed
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Emerging from a Long Island upbringing, Reed taught himself guitar from radio broadcasts and honed his craft while attending New York University, despite dyslexia and early drug use. After a brief stint with the doo-wop trio the Jades, he co-founded the Velvet Underground in 1965, where his deadpan vocals and transgressive lyrics helped shape the avant-garde scene and attracted Andy Warhol’s patro…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
