Lou Reed, the American music pioneer who fused folk's lyricism with punk rock's energy and darkness, died Sunday of complications following liver surgery. He was 71.

Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie said the singer-songwriter died at 11am on Long Island, the sprawling New York area that includes the borough of Brooklyn where he was born.

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