Photos: Lou Reed
Lou Reed, the great punk poet of rock 'n' roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, died Sunday. He was 71.
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Singer Lou Reed sings in the Berlin Tempdrom hall on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)
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FILE - In a Wednesday, July 31, 2013 file photo, Lou Reed attends the "Breaking Bad" final episodes premiere hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In a March 27 1989 file photo, musician Lou Reed poses at the American Sound Studio in New York. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts, File)
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Musician Lou Reed gives the keynote at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 13, 2008.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, Lou Reed takes the podium as the Velvet Underground, the group he once headed, is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Band mate John Cale is at left, and at right is Martha Morrison, accepting for late band member Sterling Morrison. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In a Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, members of the band the Velvet Underground, from left, Maureen Tucker; Martha Morrison, attending for her late husband, Sterling Morrison; John Cale and Lou Reed pose backstage after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Joe Tabacca, File)
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Lou Reed appears backstage at the Grammy Awards in Hollywood, February 21, 1990. (AP Photo/ Doug Pizac)
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Presenter Lou Reed, holds Moon Unit Zappa after she received her father Frank Zappa's posthumous award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's tenth annual induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1995. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)
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American singer Lou Reed performs at the 13th Rock Oz'Arenes Festival, in Avenches, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004. (AP Photo/Keystone, Sandro Campardo)
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U2 lead singer Bono, center right, and wife Ali Hewson, left, attend a party presenting fall fashions from their EDUN clothing line, joined by musician Lou Reed, second from left, and performance artist Laurie Anderson during Fashion Week Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, in New York. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
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Lou Reed performs with the Raconteurs during the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
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Musicians Lou Reed and Pink are seen during the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon is flanked by musicians Lou Reed, left, and Laurie Anderson, Nov. 1987. (AP Photo)
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Fashion designer Donna Karan poses with musician Lou Reed who is attending Karan's Urban Zen Initiative, a wellness forum aimed at merging Eastern and Western medicine in order to improve patient care, in New York City, Monday, May 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Andy Kropa)
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Lou Reed inducts Leonard Cohen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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Songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed takes of photo of performance artist Laurie Anderson, not pictured, as she delivers the commencement address during Rhode Island School of Design's commencement, Saturday, May 31, 2008, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
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Musician Lou Reed attends the premiere of 'Stone' at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Musician Lou Reed attends the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of 'Le Comte Ory' sponsored by Yves Saint Laurent on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson attend the premiere of "W.E.", hosted by the Weinstein Company and The Cinema Society, in New York, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
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FILE - In a June 13, 1986 file photo, Lou Reed performs during musical number at a benefit in Chicago, for Amnesty International. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Lou Reed performs at the Lollapalooza music festival, in Chicago. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)
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Lou Reed performs in concert in 1997 in this publicity photo for "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart," an American Masters production premiering Wed., April 29 at 10 p.m. EDT on PBS. (AP Photo/WNET, Kevin Mazur)
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Singer Lou Reed performs onstage during the "Soul To Soul": From The Heart Of NY To The Heart Of New Orleans concert in Central Park on September 28, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images)
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American rock musician Lou Reed performs at "Pepsi Island 2000", the so called European Woodstock organized on an island of Danube River in Budapest Tuesday night, August 2, 2000. Famous Hungarian and foreign rock and other music groups entertain the fans during the week-long festival. (AP PHOTO /MTI/ TAMAS KOVACS)
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Singer Lou Reed performs during the May Labor Day concert on the Tor Vergata University grounds in the outskirts of Rome, Monday May 1, 2000. Thousands of Catholic worshippers attended earlier in the morning Pope John Paul II's celebration of the Jubilee of the workers on the same grounds. Some 400,000 people attended the concert. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)