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Iconic punk rock Godess Patti Smith has written a moving tribute to the late Lou Reed in the form of a eulogy in the New Yorker.
In the piece, Smith describes the time she first met the Velvet Underground frontman in the 70s at their show at Max's Kansas City in Manhattan, admitting how much of a fan she was of the band.
"I loved to dance, and you could dance for hours to the music of the Velvet Underground," said Smith.
She goes on to comment on how kind the frontman was encouraging her own career, as well as being a 'Machiavellian schoolboy'.
The singer also recalls the last time she saw him, admitting she could sense he wasn't well:"When Lou said goodbye his dark eyes seemed to contain an infinite and benevolent sadness."
Smith continued: "A complicated man, he encouraged our efforts, then turned and provoked me like a Machiavellian schoolboy. I would try to steer clear of him, but, catlike, he would suddenly reappear, and disarm me with some Delmore Schwartz line about love or courage. I didn't understand his erratic behaviour or the intensity of his moods, which shifted, like his speech patterns, from speedy to laconic. But I understood his devotion to poetry and the transporting quality of his performances."
Reed passed away on Sunday 27 October, aged 71, which Smith found to be a day of significance writing: "I searched for the significance of the date... and found it to be the birthday of both Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath. Lou had chosen the perfect day to set sail - the day of poets, on Sunday morning, the world behind him."
This is yet another tribute in memory of the legendary rock n' roll hero following Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, 
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