Lou Reed

American rock musician

One of rock's most important singer/songwriters, the creator of a daring body of work who proved rock & roll could be art.

Born	March 2, 1942
Hometown	New York City, New York, United States of America
Net worth	$15 million
Height	5'10" (1.78m)

Spouse	Bettye Kronstad , Laurie Anderson , Sylvia Morales
Parents	Toby Reed , Sidney Joseph Reed

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It is 50 years since the release of The Who’s Quadrophenia, revered as one of rock’s greatest concept albums, a grandiose masterpiece following the existential crisis of a Mod having a very bad day in Brighton. Also celebrating its 50th anniversary is Lou Reed’s Berlin, a rock opera in which a sex worker in a destructive relationship with a drug addict has her children taken away by social services and dies by suicide. A contemporaneous review in Rolling Stone magazine labelled it “a disaster” a