Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and poet. He was the guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. The Velvet Underground was not a commercial success during its existence, but became regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music. Reed's distinctive deadpan voice, poetic and transgressive lyrics, and experimental guitar playing were trademarks throughout his long career.

After leaving the band in 1970, Reed released twenty solo studio albums. His second, Transformer (1972), was produced by David Bowie and arranged by Mick Ronson, and brought him mainstream recognition. The album is considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild Side". After Transformer, the less commercial but critically acclaimed Berlin peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart. Rock 'n' Roll Animal (a live album released in 1974) sold strongly, and Sally Can't Dance (1974) peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200; but for a long period after, Reed's work did not translate into sales, leading him deeper into drug addiction and alcoholism. Reed cleaned up in the early 1980s, and gradually returned to prominence with The Blue Mask and New Sensations (1984), reaching a critical and commercial career peak with his 1989 album New York.

Reed participated in the reformation of the Velvet Underground in the 1990s, and made several more albums, including a collaboration album with John Cale titled Songs for Drella which was a tribute to their former mentor Andy Warhol. Magic and Loss (1992) would become Reed's highest-charting album on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 6.

He contributed music to two theatrical interpretations of 19th century writers, one of which he developed into an album titled The Raven. He married his third wife Laurie Anderson in 2008, and recorded the collaboration album Lulu with Metallica. He died in 2013 of liver disease. Reed has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996 and as a solo act in 2015.

He was also a bi icon.

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  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Happy -2 to stealth day, bi comrades :stalin-heart: :biderman:

              • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                3 years ago

                me too (and even with 5e not a whole lot) i only know from looking into V:TM after playing bloodlines.

                  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                    3 years ago

                    yeah most of my time interacting with V:TM is just reading L O R E from the wikis and stuff. Also I seem to remember in their 5e or something like that theres a super based call out against fascists or something like that at the front of the book?

                    • DeathToBritain [she/her,they/them]
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                      3 years ago

                      oh yeah 100% they're very based with that shit. they also have a lot of class analysis in the vampire world that is very on the nose

                    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                      3 years ago

                      All the World of Darkness books are really fun to read. Like I've heard Demon: the Fallen is kind of a mess in practice but I'm a huge sucker for that lore.

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                      "So they were innocent. Like children"

                      "Innocent like pigeons, more like. Innocent like a rat that goes trough your trash. Only these pigeons had the potential to be poets, scholars, sculptors and musicians. We tried to show them, tried to teach them, to the extent that we were able. But it wasn't much. A Fundamental could open the earth to them, revealing a seam of diamonds and gold, but primal humanity just scratched their heads and moved on. And you think we made them unhappy? A spirit on the wind - I knew him, his name would sound to your ears as 'Raphael' - made an elaborate plan to play a song for them. He had to shuttle himself between hundreds of facets - the 'reality layers' I told you about - in order to make his plans with angels of other houses. A Cherub of the Spheres told him when his chosen audience was fated to walk through a certain windy valley. Angels of the Fundament worked with him to crack the valley walls, just so, that the wind might echo through them like harp strings. Trees were moved into place, that the creak of their limbs might harmonize, while birds were enticed there to add the high notes, even as the valley's streambed was sculpted into the right shape to sound percussion from the moving water... Raphael labored for ages to give your forebears ten minutes of music, coaxed lovingly out of entirely natural sounds. Do you know what happened?"

                      "What?"

                      "Adam caught and ate one of the birds, while Eve checked the trees to see if they had fruit."