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\n\t\t\t Listen Now on Amazon\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nWalk on the Wild Side<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nWork<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTrouble With the Classicicsts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nDisco Mystic<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nMagician<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nKill Your Sons<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The rock legend was born in New York on March 2, 1942, as a child of an accountant and a former beauty queen. His parents sent the rebel teenager – living under the spell of rock and roll – at the age of 17 to shock therapy to heal him from his mood swings and deviances (as bisexuality), but the treatment was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

At the University he studied philosophy and literature, he also had an independent radio show – but this did not enjoy a particular success, because his favorites were far from the public taste. He founded his first band at the university, he occupied himself with creative writing, he published short stories.<\/p>\n

At the <\/em>age of 22 he began to open his wings as a songwriter at Pickwick Records<\/a> record company \u2013 he met the Welsh John Cale in this period, who studied music in New York and played music with the avant-garde composer La Monte Young. Guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker – who then lived together in the Lower East Side – joined the two musicians to found The Velvet Underground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As the band was finally formed, they\u00a0caught the attention of a pop-art artist, an unofficial ruler of the New York underground,\u00a0Andy Warhol<\/a>, who has incorporated the four into his show called \u201cExploding Plastic Inevitable\u201d, and later -although Reed was not enthusiastic about the idea- he succeeded to take in the German model-singer Nico.<\/p>\n

The band’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico<\/a> appeared in March 1967 and although it did not have a commercial success, it is considered to be one of the most influential albums in Pop music. Without it the history of rock and roll would look different.<\/p>\n

The formation of Velvet Underground was created with the collaboration of the “Pope of Pop Art” in 1966, who organized their first appearance on the conference of the most prestigious US psychiatrists, and he designed the famous cover of their first album with the banana in 1967.<\/p>\n

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On this album, the German model-actress Nico<\/a> was singing, the lyrics written by Reed openly discussed topics of rock and roll lifestyle and sexuality, drug culture, and the shadowy side of life (these were taboos in that time). The professional and personal disputes quickly blasted the band, Cale left the band first, then Reed in 1970.<\/p>\n

The Velvet Underground’s brief history was a commercial failure, but it’s impact is comparable to that of The Beatles<\/a> in the sixties: Reed’s and Cale’s compositions on alcohol, drug and death with their dark, frightening sounds and their performances strongly influenced the 1970’s and 80’s punk, new wave and europop trends.<\/p>\n

The versatile Lou Reed is not only a rock musician, but also one of the revolutionaries of American poetry, his writings are taught at universities.He also appeared in several movies, his photo albums were published. His widow, Laurie Anderson<\/a> is a recognized American musician, multimedia and performance artist.<\/p>\n

Let’s\u00a0 see the top six songs of the prince of darkness:<\/p>\n

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6. Kill Your Sons<\/h2>\n

\u201cAll your two-bit psychiatrists
\nare giving you electroshock
\nThey said, they’d let you live at home with mom and dad
\ninstead of mental hospitals
\nBut every time you tried to read a book
\nyou couldn’t get to page 17
\n‘Cause you forgot where you were
\nso you couldn’t even read.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a teenager, Lou Reed was sent to a mental hospital for psychiatric care when he was caught engaging in homosexual activity. While there, he received electroconvulsive therapy<\/a> – shock treatment.<\/p>\n

The treatments left Reed feeling like a “vegetable,” and he said that it caused him to lose his memory and his ability to concentrate enough to read: hence the lyrics,”But every time you tried to read a book you couldn’t get to page 17, because you forgot where you were so you couldn’t even read.”<\/p>\n