[00:13.60]In a career spanning nearly five decades, Lou Reed had a huge influence from the shape of rock music.
[00:19.66]Born in New York, he was a founder of the seminal 1960s band of Velvet Underground.
[00:24.42]Anthony Burch looks back on his life.
[00:26.64]“It was once said that the Velvet Underground had very few fans at the time, but everyone who ever heard them went on to start a group of their own.
[00:38.53]Lou Reed's songs read the heart of their music, he saw himself as a musician working in a tradition of early Rock and Roll.
[00:50.41]Lou Reed's melodies were spare but lyrical.
[00:54.23]Working with world's musician John Cale as protégés of Andy Warhol,
[00:57.51]he invented a new song for rock one which merits simple memorable tunes with the most challenging of avant-garde music.
[01:04.66]His songs drew on the grieved street life of New York and delt with subjects such as drug abuse, extremes of sexual experience and despair.
[01:13.55]Lou Reed who died today.”
[01:26.47]Syria has submitted a declaration of its chemical weapons and its plans to destroy them meeting the first key deadline of a program for their total elimination.
[01:36.21]The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons which is overseeing the process said the documents were handed over on Thursday.