Sylvia Morales

From Lou Reed's Wikipedia entry:

In 1980, Reed married British designer Sylvia Morales.[21] They were divorced more than a decade later. While together, Morales inspired Reed to write several songs, particularly "Think It Over" from 1980's Growing Up in Public and "Heavenly Arms" from 1982's The Blue Mask.[citation needed] After Legendary Hearts (1983) and New Sensations (1984) fared adequately on the charts, Reed was sufficiently reestablished as a public figure to become spokesman for Honda motorcycles.

Footnote:

• 21. Sandall, Robert (February 9, 2003). "Lou Reed: Walk on the mild side". The Sunday Times (London). Retrieved December 20, 2008.

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Excerpts from Looking Back at Lou Reed’s Blue Period by David Bowman (New York Observer, March 15, 1999):

http://observer.com/1999/03/looking-back-at-lou-reeds-blue-period/

In 1980, Mr. Reed, former leader of the Velvet Underground, quietly married Sylvia Morales, an alleged stripper and part-time dominatrix. Lou and Sylvia seem like old history since, for most of the 1990′s, he and musician-cum-conceptual artist Laurie Anderson have been as inseparable as John and Yoko. But back in the 1980′s, Sylvia was the Yoko in Mr. Reed’s life and he proclaimed his undying love to her over the course of several albums.

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The songs on the album can be categorized three ways. The first are autobiographical numbers. In “My House,” Lou and Sylvia contact Mr. Reed’s dead mentor, the writer Delmore Schwartz, via a Ouija board. In another, Lou praises his wife’s “heavenly arms,” singing her name over and over, “Syl-vee-ahh, Syl-vee-ahh …”; in “The Day John Kennedy Died,” he remembers being a college boy up in Syracuse, N.Y., the day the President was shot.