Lou Reed
Subtitle: the life
By: Mick Wall
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781409153047
Subjects: Rock musicians; Biography
Description: Lou Reed wrote songs about drugs, squalor, transgressive sexuality, honourable prostitutes, visionary gutter queens and dollar-hustlers. He also wrote some of the most moving love songs of the era, from 'Pale blue eyes' to 'Perfect day'. In his lifetime he was called, variously, the Godfather of Punk, the High Priest of Glam, and all sorts of similarly tremble-tremble sobriquets. The truth is, Lou Reed began where rock left off. Before him, it was about entertainment. After him, rock was literary, dark, and above all, disquietingly honest.
Notes: Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and discography (pages 217-230).
Table of contents: title: Preface. The long night; title: ECT; title: Flowers of evil; title: Light and dark; title: Unloaded; title: Breakup to makeup; title: Suicide city; title: White noise; title: Hey, shut up!; title: The new mask; title: The Tao of Lou Reed.