Reading this book of his collected musings is the next best thing to getting just one ... Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and more among his souvenirs. And because Thomas can’t resist a good ...

Anthony DeCurtis’ 2018 bio, “Lou Reed: A Life,” documents ... Among the highlights: Reed rescues one of his best and most scathingly personal songs, “Kill Your Sons,” from the purgatory ...

When Lou Reed died two years ago this month, music lost one of its true pioneers. Reed's primal writing and sardonic, deadpan delivery anticipated punk rock by nearly a decade, and he was punk ...

So many books and stories abound about Lou Reed that you’d be forgiven for believing that nothing else could be said about ...

Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie (Lulu stands ... “It’s about cripples in the ghetto. I’m the best-qualified person to set music to a book about cripples in the ghetto?” ...

Lou Reed was as New York as Yankee Stadium, and his best songs continue to inspire. But, as revealed in the new book “Lou Reed: A Life” (Little, Brown, out now) by Anthony DeCurtis ...

It’s one of the best descriptions of his work I’ve ever read: Miserable was his favorite word for Lou. Not just once, not just twice, many, many, many times. Lou Reed was the incarnation of ...

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Hence, Lou Reed, and his very urgent need to make rock ... of love and skepticism that defines the very best criticism. Plenty has been written about Reed, but only Hermes, to my mind, has gotten ...

Lou Reed first came to acclaim ... In 1989, Reed released “New York,” his grittiest effort in nearly a decade and his best since 1978’s “Street Hassle.” It was not a celebration of ...

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