As the lead singer and songwriter of the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Lou Reed was responsible for a body of work that was alienated from the prevailing optimism of the day and was passionately bleak, and which remains highly influential today. He is often referred to as the godfather of punk. His solo recording career, beginning in 1972, has been more idiosyncratic and iconoclastic marked by sudden turnabouts in image and sound, from self consciously commercial product to white noise to unpredictable folk rock. Find all your favorite Lou Reed ringtones and Lou Reed realtones below.