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The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed created alternative rock. His music, at once a way to obtain transcendent beauty and coruscating sound, violated all definitions of genre while talking with millions of fans and inspiring years of musicians. But while his iconic status may be set, the man himself was not. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly eager for new encounters, Reed reinvented his persona, his audio, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely 3rd party yet afraid to be by itself, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, looking forward to commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic tunes - like "Walk on the Wild Part" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums equally, Reed remained desperately true to his imaginative perspective, wherever it led him. Now, simply a couple of years after Reed's death, Rolling Rock writer Anthony DeCurtis, who realized Reed and interviewed him thoroughly, tells the provocative report of his sophisticated and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to a large number of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis monitors Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of these who realized him and through Reed's most revealing testimony: his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, get into the studio as the Velvet Underground track record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's associations with such renowned figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, romantic, and unflinching, Lou Reed can be an illuminating tribute to 1 of the most incendiary artists of our own time.
