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His song “Without Expression,” which he wrote at 14 and included on his first album, was later covered by John Mellencamp, REO Speedwagon and other artists.

After he released his debut album, “Bang, Bang You’re Terry Reid,” in 1968, when he was just 18, Ms. Franklin said, “There are only three things happening in England: the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Terry Reid.”

Although it climbed no higher than No. 172 on the Billboard 200, the British rock magazine Mojo later described “River” as “one of the most lazily magnificent records of that or any other year.”

Jack White of the White Stripes recorded Mr. Reid’s 1969 song “Rich Kid Blues” in 2008 with his band the Raconteurs.

Mr. Reid never had a major hit song or album, although a few of his albums eventually came to be regarded as minor masterpieces — particularly “River” (1973), with its blend of blues, jazz, folk, R&B and Brazilian music.

Terry Reid, a British vocal alchemist and songwriter whose powerful voice earned him the nickname Superlungs — and who, despite turning down the chance to become the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, came to be celebrated as a singer’s singer by luminaries like Aretha Franklin, died on Aug. 4 in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

“Lettuce,” the man replied.

“And she’s going to kill me if I don’t have one for a bagel brunch we’re hosting this morning.”

He complained that no matter what kind of meat he bought from the farmer’s market next to the American Museum of Natural History, his dog refused to eat it.

Eventually, we pulled alongside an ice cream truck.

I gave him a gift, a Mad magazine that he tucked under his other arm.

I asked him for his autograph.

Back in the mid-1960s, my best friend at the time, Peggy, and I would travel to Manhattan whenever we heard that a British pop group was coming to New York City.

Another time I entered a shop and saw a New York comedian who often appeared on late-night talk shows.

We would wait patiently outside the hotel where the band was staying, hoping for a sight of one of our musical heroes.

I, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, once got to stroll arm-in-arm on a street in the West 50s with John Steel, the drummer for The Animals.

Megan Mineiro is a Times congressional reporter and a member of the 2025-26 Times Fellowship class, a program for early-career journalists.

For someone like her, attracted to English-speaking culture, it has filled a void in her Quebec life.

She had known little about the Morrin Centre until she used the library for a photo shoot.

On a recent evening, a lecture by Sandra Tomayla, a local photographer and filmmaker, attracted a diverse group of people — including a French speaker, Christian Shriqui,Originally from Montreal, Mr. Shriqui said he belongs to a book club at the Morrin and regularly attends workshops and poetry readings here — all in English.