Lou Reed performs at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Michel Linssen/Redferns After leaving the Velvet Underground in 1970, Lou Reed went to work for his dad’s accounting firm as a typist. If he had never played a note of music again in his life, the four albums he made with the Velvets would be enough to establish him as one of rock’s leading songwriters and visionaries. Fortunately for him, and f
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