Lou Reed, lead singer of Velvet Underground, dies aged 71Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life’s wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation, has died at the age of 71. He had been suffering from liver failure and received a transplant earlier this year. Reed’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, said the musician died on Sunday morning in Southampt
