Early fans and imitators included a young David Bowie, who went on to produce Reed's best known solo album, Transformer
One of the founding members of experimental rock group The Velvet Underground is to give a one-off performance of the band's legendary debut album
Welsh-born John Cale, 73, will play songs at the city's Philharmonie de Paris venue from The Velvet Underground & Nico, which was released in 1967.
The album delved into drug use and non-traditional sexuality and featured the German model and singer Nico as a vocalist.
Collaborators lined up to perform at the Paris concert on 3 April include Pete Doherty and Carl Barat from The Libertines, French actress and singer Lou Dillon, and Nick Franglen from Lemon Jelly.
The concert takes place almost three years after the death of the group's lead singer and co-founder Lou Reed.
The punk poet died of a liver-related ailment in New York State in October 2013 after receiving a liver transplant earlier in the year.
Reed met Cale in the 1960s, initially forming a band called The Primitives.
After Reed's death, Cale wrote on his Facebook page: "The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet ... I've lost my 'school-yard buddy'."
A Philharmonie spokesman described the event as: "Offering a (re)interpretation of the Velvet Underground's mythic first album, 'The Velvet Underground & Nico,' two and a half years after the death of his collaborator Lou Reed marks a perilous and passionate undertaking."
Cale has remained active as an avant-garde composer since leaving the Velvet Underground in 1968.
His contribution to music was recognised with an OBE in 2010.
While experiencing little success during their heyday, the Velvet Underground went on to be recognised as one of the most influential of all rock bands.
A comment attributed to Brian Eno suggested that while only a few thousand people actually bought their debut, all of them went on to form a band.
One of their most enduring fans was David Bowie, who claimed to have been the first person to have covered one of their songs - Waiting For The Man - and who went on to produce one of Reed's best-loved solo albums, Transformer.
Cale left the band in 1968, with Reed leaving two years later.
Of the classic line-ups, only Cale, drummer Moe Tucker and Cale's replacement Doug Yule survive.
Nico died in 1988 while guitarist Sterling Morrison passed away in 1995.
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