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Laurie Anderson, wife to the late and great Lou Reed has written an obituary stating that he spent his last days happy.
Reed passed away on Sunday (October 27) from liver complications, aged 71. Subsequently, Anderson has penned a piece for a local papers obituary section. The Long Island Town paper The East Hampton Star was chosen as it was a place the couple frequently visited. The letter read as follows:
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we're city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us
. — Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend
Reed has received a slew of tribute since his passing, David Bowie called him "the master" while the Arctic Monkeys performed a cover in tribute.
Below check out some of Lou Reed's greatest quotes
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