Newburyport Public Library

The life of Lou Reed, Notes from the Velvet Underground, Howard Sounes

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and index

individual biography

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The life of Lou Reed

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Howard Sounes

Notes from the Velvet Underground

As band leader of the Velvet Underground and later a successful solo artist, Reed was much more than what the general public came to know as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang “Walk on the Wild Side.” To his dedicated admirers, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent songwriters of modern times—a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured life. In the course of his deep research into Reed’s life, from a humble upbringing on Long Island to death from liver disease in 2013, Howard Sounes interviewed more than 140 people who knew the artist intimately—some of whom have not spoken publicly about him before. With new revelations from former wives and lovers, family members, fellow band members and celebrities, and music industry figures, this book offers an updated, unfettered look at Reed’s creative process, his mental health problems, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to drugs and alcohol. Featuring previously unpublished photographs of some of Reed’s most private moments, this is the definitive account of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most complicated and brilliant prophets

Coney Island baby, 1942-59 -- On to the darkened sea, 1960-4 -- Honeybun, Black Jack, Sterl and Moesy, 1964-5 -- The exploding plastic inevitable, 1966 -- Light and dark, 1967-8 -- A new VU, 1968-70 -- Solo in the seventies, 1970-3 -- Self-parody, 1973-4 -- Howling like the devil, 1975-6 -- The Arista years, 1976-80 -- Second marriage, 1980-7 -- New inspiration, 1987-92 -- Return to the Velvet Underground, 1992-6 -- Love, Lou, 1996-2008 -- Nevermore, 2008-13

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