Lou Reed

Other artists honoring Reed on the album include Rickie Lee Jones, The Afghan Whigs, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Rosanne Cash.

Reed's final solo album is debuting on vinyl courtesy of Light In The Attic, Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive.

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Lester Bangs, the narcotics-powered American rock writer, whose reports verged on performance art, described Lou Reed as a “death dwarf”, for good measure also calling him “a liar, wasted talent” and “completely depraved pervert”. Now that the “death…