Lou Reed

Lou Reed, born March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., is the singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio albums under Reed’s direction from 1965 to 1970. Reed’s post-Velvets career, though…