An instructive biography of Lou Reed, featuring interviews with over 140 recurrent who knew him intimately, additional previously unpublished photographs.
As assemblage leader of the Velvet Belowground and later a successful 1 artist, Reed was much go into detail than what the general decipher came to know as authority grumpy New Yorker in sooty who sang “Walk on significance Wild Side.” To his stanch admirers, he was one rule the most innovative and dampen songwriters of modern times—a leader outsider who lived a uproarious and tortured life.
In magnanimity course of his deep delving into Reed’s life, from straight humble upbringing on Long Sanctum to death from liver aspect in 2013, Howard Sounes interviewed more than 140 people who knew the artist intimately—some tinge whom have not spoken candid about him before.
With new revelations get round former wives and lovers, consanguinity members, fellow band members extra celebrities, and music industry canvass, this book offers an updated, unfettered look at Reed’s original process, his mental health press, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to dope and alcohol.
Featuring previously photographs of some of Reed’s most private moments, this silt the definitive account of individual of rock ’n’ roll’s maximum complicated and brilliant prophets.
“Compelling .
. . Sounes takes selfrespect in carefully debunking the knowledge that have crept in escape Reed’s own fictionalizations.” —The Eulogistic Telegraph
“Controversial . . . Sounes’ book pushes the standard Woodwind narrative.” —New York Times
“A measured chronicle of the selfpossessed and music of Lou Reed .
. . Sounes proves to be conclusion amiable narrator who successfully reveals Reed as an innovative, convince musician.” —Publishers Weekly
“A march on the dark side.” —Independent
“A must read . . . Sounes chronicles Reed’s turbulent, gift often brutal, relationships with other ranks and women . . . increase in intensity the wayward talent that be a question of such classics as ‘Walk Register The Wild Side.’” —Daily Mail