Lou Reed, the principal singer and songwriter in the Velvet Underground, has died, his literary agent Andrew Wylie said on Sunday.
Mr. Reed died in Long Island, Mr. Wylie said. He was survived by his wife, Laurie Anderson.
"He was as great an artist as it's possible to be in my opinion," Mr. Wylie said.
He believed that his cause of death was related to a liver transplant Mr. Reed had earlier this year.
Sober since the 1880s and a practitioner of Tai Chi, Mr. Reed had a liver transplant in May 2013 in Cleveland. "I am a triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry," he wrote in a public statement upon his release. "I am bigger and stronger than ever." Less than a month later he wrote a review of Kanye West's album "Yeezus" for the online publication the Talkhouse, celebrating its abrasiveness and returning once more to "Metal Machine Music" to explain an artist's deepest motives.
"I have never thought of music as a challenge - you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are," he wrote. "You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful."
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