LOU REED'S SUNDAY MORNING.

Sunday morning praise the dawning. [...] Watch out, the world’s behind you there’s always someone around you who will call’, We can’t even imagine how many times people around the world sang this words. A lot of people doesn’t know the personal biography of the man who wrote it. 

Lou Reed (born Lewis Allan Reed), 71, passed away yesterday – and it’s ironic – on Sunday morning. I don’t even realize, time flies, few years ago I was just 19 and now I’m 70′ Reed said at Cannes Film Festival on March. Lou Reed was not a songwriter of pop songs. He composed the music of The Velvet Underground & Nico, a masterpiece which made rock art music. Distorted sounds in which avant-garde culture meets Medieval music, lyrics that reminds us of Ancient Occitan poetry instead of freaks and hippies. This album belongs to the slums, to the underground, it shows dark feelings which remind us of serial music and avant-garde jazz à la Cecil Taylor. It has a little in common with popular music. On the cover Warhol’s banana is now a worldwide cult symbol. 

The Velvet Underground & Nico influenced not only American culture but changed modern music the way Beethoven and Verdi changed the 19th century music. It’s my favorite album as well, it changed my life and changed my thoughts about modern music and culture. For me now music is essential to live life, a peaceful ‘shelter’ in which I find serenity and meditation. Reed’s personal life showed not only drug abuse and an extreme behavior, but the Dionysian spirit Nietzsche spoke about. His art was about city ​​chaos, it blamed an existential angst, personal and social angst, in which Freud and Jung were linked to Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land. The 20th century belonged to many important scientists and artist, and luckily it belonged to Lou Reed as well. 

 Marco Di Caprio