| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | The joys of cloud spotting | | Clouds intrigued me as a boy. I was curious about what they were made of, how they got up in the sky and what it would be like to sit on one. I also thought they looked beautiful. |
| Reed, the minimalist god | | The apocryphal and numerically fluctuating line about the Velvet Underground, often attributed to Brian Eno, is that just 3,000 people bought "The Velvet Underground and Nico," but every one of them formed a band. |
| Rock legend dies at 71 | | Lou Reed, who took rock 'n' roll into dark corners as a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, died Sunday. |
| Rock legend Lou Reed dies at 71 | | Lou Reed, who took rock 'n' roll into dark corners as a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, died Sunday, his publicist said. He was 71. |
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