Lou Reed

Lou Reed passed away yesterday. I spent the day at home, packing up some of my belongings for storage, listening to the Velvet Underground on spotify. It took me back to my teenage years, when my friend Ros first played me their debut album with Nico (the Warhol banana album) and it opened my eyes (ears?) to a whole new world of musical expression.

Today I'm musing on some of Reed's lines from 'Some Kinda Love':

"Let us do what you fear most
That from which you recoil
But which still makes your eyes moist"

Indeed. Let's.

Vale Lou Reed, songwriter, poet.