From partying with Andy Warhol to performing on Saturday Night Live , a look back on the early life of one of rock music’s greatest icons.
Lou Reed's 1959 yearbook photo from Freeport High School, which described his likes as "music, and naturally, girls."
Freeport High School
An early photo of Lou Reed and John Cale, two of the original members of the Velvet Underground.
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The Velvet Underground perform at the Filmmakers Cinematheque in NYC on Feb. 8, 1966. In the forefront, model and actress Edie Sedgwick dances with poet Gerard Malanga.
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In 1968, Reed hung out with Andy Warhol and Malanga at Salvation, a hip disco in Greenwich Village.
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