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, who died Oct. 27 .
Lou Reed's 1959 yearbook photo from Freeport High School, which described his likes as "music, and naturally, girls."
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An early photo of Lou Reed and John Cale, two of the original members of the band Velvet Underground.
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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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