BBC News - Lou Reed: Your memories 28 October 2013 Last updated at 01:57 US guitarist, singer and former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed has died at the age of 71. Reed's literary agent the musician died at his home, on Sunday morning and had not been well "for a few months." BBC News website readers have been sending in their memories of the man. I have been following Lou's music for the past 40 years. I was first introduced to his music when I was 15-years-old. I have been a big fan ever since. I am probably one of his biggest fans in the UK. I can safely say I bought every single of his and have attended every concert of his in the UK since 1973, bar none. The only time I've had the pleasure to meet him was a few weeks ago, on 6 September to be precise, at the London Corinthia Hotel. The picture (above) is of myself with Lou Reed and Mick Rock who was launching his Transformer photographic book. Lou was frail but made the journey from New York to support his old mate Mick. Lou was immensely popular amongst his fans and I quickly realised this whenever I attended one of his concerts or launches. He was under the radar when it came to the charts. But he was certainly legend and was one of the most influential musicians in rock music. He took me on a mental round trip to New York with his lyrics. Thanks Lou for the 40 years. I was hoping for another 40. God bless and rest in peace. In 1975, I was Melody Maker's US correspondent in New York and used to see him socially fairly regularly at a downtown club. He'd done a show at the Academy of Music on 14th Street with banks of TVs, maybe 50 or 60, playing static as a backdrop, and a week or so after this show I happened to bump into him and mentioned to him that I didn't have a TV. "How many do you want?" he asked. "Well, a couple would be great," I said. Drop by my apartment tomorrow. He said. He lived on Second or Third Avenue, in a big block, so I took a cab there and his place was chock full of TVs. I picked out a couple, they were all black and white, ex-hospital he told me, and I took them home. They both worked too, after a bit of fiddling with coat hangers as aerials. I was too young to see him performing with the Velvet Underground but saw him perform with them when they reformed in the 1990s. Thanks for the TVs. And the music. Lou Reed once lived in the penthouse of our building in the West Village. This was about 10 years ago before he moved out. Me and my partner kind of knew him. My partner is a horticulturalist and used to look after his plants. He was on the elevator with us once singing the praises of the Skinny Delight Yogurt he was eating. I told my other half as we got off the elevator: "This from a man who wrote a track called Heroin!?!" I was first introduced to his music when I was 15 and bought my first CD, Walk on the Wild Side, when I moved to New York 35 years ago to attend college. I attended one of his CD signings in the city and was struck by the fan base he had. It was quiet eclectic. A diverse range of ages that included the young and old. It is sad to see him gone at 71 but he managed to have a long and fruitful career outliving many of his iconic rock music contemporaries of rock music who passed early on in their careers. We knew him as a human being. An older friend of mine introduced me to the music of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground in the early 2000s, and told me all about the history of the band. After a pint at the pub, we used to sit around his kitchen table and drink the finest single malt listening to the Banana Album or some Reed or John Cale (his bandmate) music. My friend also had some really rare recordings of "The Super Clean Dream Machine" off a Dutch radio station he used to listen to. My favourite song by Lou is Coney Island Baby and my favourite album is Berlin. Although I can only listen to it a few times a year because it's so sad. There's one song that stands out particularly and that is The Kids. This song makes me grimace whenever I listen to it, and this is what I like about Lou Reed's music. I eventually went to see Lou live at the Bridgwater Hall in 2006 and saw him perform Coney Island Baby live. Lou Reed's music has created some very valuable memories. Thanks Lou! Interviews by Abdirahim Saeed