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Lou Reed : a life / Anthony DeCurtis. by DeCurtis, Anthony. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Call #: LP 781.66092 R324d Subjects Reed, Lou.   Velvet Underground (Musical group)   Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.   Alternative rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.   Avant-garde (Music) -- History and criticism.   Rock music -- United States -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780316552424 (hc.) Edition:  Large print edition. Description:  viii, 757 pages (large print) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed (1942 - 2013) invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him. Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time. Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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