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According to User:Jimbo, the subject of this article, Lou Reed, has edited the article - correcting his birth name only to have his correction reverted.[1]
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"Reed's work did not translate into sales, leading him deeper into drug addiction and alcoholism." This is absolute rubbish. There is *nothing* noteworthy about an addict spiraling down into severe disability, death, and/or the need for institutional care. Blaming his lack of commercial success FOR his addictions has the cart before the horse. It's more likely that his compromised executive function was a primary CAUSE of his career nose-dive.98.17.181.251 (talk) 18:46, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's more likely that there was always a limited market for the thing Lou Reed did. None of the Velvet Underground records even charted, and they were released BEFORE Reed began a career as a leader. The remarkable thing is not that at certain points he had less commercial success; it's that he ever had broad commercial success at all. This is not suggest that commercial success in pop is easy for anyone. The odds are enormously stacked against you. If you think "compromised executive function" was the cause of Reed's commercial floundering, let's see you make a hit record. I'll wait. TheScotch (talk) 16:42, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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