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Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
Just a bare scraping of Reed's life is bound to sound interesting. He chummed with people like Delmore Schwartz, Andy Warhol and William S. Burroughs, played with musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, David Bowie and John Cale and was behind maybe a half-dozen amazing albums. He struggled with booze, drugs and a complicated attitude towards sexuality and often turned his personal experiences into great, immediate music. But I suppose the question is: how much does that tell us about the man and why he made the work he did?
For example, just about anyone who's bothered to read the lyrics to a song like "Walk on the Wild Side" knows what the song is generally about. And anyone who bothers to look it up can find it was a hit for Lou, too. So the question that lingers about that song, for example, is why it was so successful. How did Reed come to write it, was it based on any specifics and what made the song so compelling.
And for that specific example, Bockris deftly avoids breaking down the song in any detail. It was based on
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Lou Reed: The Biography - Hardcover
Lou Reed: The Biography
Bockris, Victor
Published by Hutchinson, 1994
ISBN 10: 0091780314 / ISBN 13: 9780091780319
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Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
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