who influenced Lou Reed?

Question

and who was most influenced by Lou ?
do you have a Lou Reed song of the day ? mine's Endless Cycle

Answer 1

"Reed's influences were the Beat writers like (Jack) Kerouac, (Allen) Ginsberg and (William) Burroughs"

Most Influenced? I'm sure Bowie picked up on some of it.

Chuck Berry

Bob Dylan edit: I guess i can take that back for David V's post. had no idea

Little Richard

Most Influenced? I'm sure Bowie picked up on some of it.

Otherwise that's very difficult considering the influence can NOT be overestimated!

Answer 2

William S. Burroughs and Jack Smith inspired Lou Reed

heres an interesting Reed webpage.



EDIT Dohhttp://www.juggle.com/lou-reed





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCymRC7cZTk

perfect day

Answer 3

Music wise I don't know if anyone did [but I'm sure he listen to someone at sometime] I know by a lot of his quote's he did not seem to like a lot of artist of his time. Here are a few of his quotes



"I have no respect for Jim Morrison, The Doors, I didn't even feel sorry for him when he died." Lou Reed



"If you want to heaar pretentiousness, just listen to John Lenno's Imagine'. All that 'possessions' crap" Lou Reed



"Alice Cooper is the worst, most disgusting side of rock music." Lou Reed



"Frank Zappa is probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit, pretentious academic and he can't play his way out of anything. He can't play rock n roll because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses so funny. He's not happy with himself and I think he's right." Lou Reed



Dylan gets on my nerves. If your at a party with him I think you'd tell him to shut up." Lou Reed.



and there are so many more he puts down or show's he has a dislike for, as in Mick Jagger, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young and so on.



And yes Lou is still one of my favorite artist, even though he did not like others that I liked, but hey I don't judge who I like by what they might like or dislike.



Lou Reed - Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk



take care

dave

Answer 4

Lou Reed's major influences apart from the 'Beat' poets already mentioned were the New York writer and poet, Delmore Schwartz, Hubert Selby Jr, author of 'Last Exit To Brooklyn and 'Requiem For A Dream', and 1950's Doo Wop groups. He dedicated The Velvet's 'European Son' to Schwartz, and 'My House', from 'The Blue Mask', was about his relationship with him. Delmore Schwartz was a lecturer at Reed's University who took him under his wing as Reed showed promise as a writer.



As already mentioned, David Bowie was highly influenced by Mr Reed, post and also including 'Hunky Dory'. 'Queen *****' being a major case in point.



Street Hassle



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkG9BKgDvNI

Answer 5

Hi Smoochy Perfect Day, Walk at the Wild Side, Satellite of Love, Sweet Jane, Street Hassle, My Love is Chemical. I've just lately obtained into Lou Reed and I like those songs the high-quality. *Hey, Abigale simply copied my reply.

Answer 6

I was glad to see someone list the 'beat poets' because that is what I *thought* but I really didn't know... and re. who was influenced by Lou... I *love* the Cowboy Junkies' version of Sweet Jane :-)



It's always good to see "younger" bands pay homage to their heroes and influences.