watch full video at http://alltimetv.com Lou Reed, who took rock ’n’ roll into dark corners as a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, past away Sunday, his publicist said. He was 71. The publicist, Peter Noble, confirmed Reed’s death but issued no details. Reed had undergone a liver transplant in May, his wife, the musician/performance creative person Laurie Anderson, revealed over the summer. Reed was a rock pioneer who went from record mark songwriter to a constituent of the short-lived but innovative and influential Velvet Underground. The band and Reed’s solo work undertook taboo topics like drug addiction, paranoia and sexy deviancy in pieces of music that were mostly spare, muscular and often saturated in repsonse. ”Lou Reed’s influence is one that there are really only a tiny handful of other numbers who you can contrast to him,” said Simon Vozick-Levinson, a older reviewer at revolving pebble. ”He talked unbelievably frankly about the realities of being an creative individual, being a individual who dwelled life on one’s own terms. He didn’t prettify things. He didn’t sugarcoat things. He displayed life as it actually is and that’s something that made him a factual original, and one of our great all-time artists,” he said.S vocalist and former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed has past away at the age of 71.