<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77949316/">http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77949316/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 252); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4375em; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lou Reed, whose band the Velvet Underground became one of the most influential in rock by fusing art and music in 1960s' New York through its collaboration with artist Andy Warhol, died on Sunday at age 71, Rolling Stone reported.</span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cause of death was not reported, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reed's representatives could not immediately be reached to confirm the news.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Online tributes were pouring in on social media after a message sent earlier in the day on Reed's Twitter and Facebook pages read simply "The Door."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Velvet Underground never achieved much commercial success, but revolutionized rock in the 1960s and 70s with a mixture of thrashing guitar licks and smooth melodies sung by Reed or the sultry German model Nico, who briefly collaborated with the band at Warhol's insistence.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The band has long been recognized as a major musical influence on punk and art rock, as reflected in a quote often attributed to musician Brian Eno that, "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An admitted hard drinker and drug user for many years, Reed underwent a liver transplant earlier this year at the Cleveland Mayo Clinic, his wife, Laurie Anderson, told The Times of London, after he had canceled five California concert dates scheduled in April.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I am a triumph of modern medicine," Reed posted on his website on June 1, 2013, without directly acknowledging the transplant. "I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the Velvet Underground’s best known songs include "Sweet Jane," "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Heroin." Reed’s most recently released recorded work was “Lulu,” a 2011 collaboration with heavy metal act Metallica.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lou Reed played at the Skyline Stage at Navy Pier in 2003.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><img src="cid:475EB0C0-95D7-45C6-9FE6-EA0FDAAEDB7F" alt="1024.jpeg" id="475EB0C0-95D7-45C6-9FE6-EA0FDAAEDB7F" width="640" height="449"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Walk_On_the_Wild_Side.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Walk_On_the_Wild_Side.mp3</a></span><br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rest well, Lou.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> </span></font></div></div></div></div></body></html>