King of cool and culture icon Lou Reed passed away this last weekend. Reed, who was 71, reportedly succumbed to liver disease after foregoing a liver transplant earlier in the summer. Pale Blue Eyes, which can be heard below, is one of my all time favorites. Lou will forever linger on through the sounds of my speakers. RIP.
Only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground’s début, but they all started bands.
Brian Eno
We could venture further and say that David Byrne, Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, and Ian Curtis would have thought very differently about music if not for Reed’s existence.
Sasha Frere-Jones from his piece in the New Yorker