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Lou Reed's Transformer

Ezra Furman

Author : Ezra Furman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501323065

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Lou Reed's Transformer by Ezra Furman Pdf

Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these descriptors. Buried underneath the radio-friendly exterior lie coded confessions of the subversive, wounded intelligence that gives this album its staying power as a work of art. Here Lou Reed managed to make a fun, accessible rock'n'roll record that is also a troubled meditation on the ambiguities-sexual, musical and otherwise-that defined his public persona and helped make him one of the most fascinating and influential figures in rock history. Through close listening and personal reflections, songwriter Ezra Furman explores Reed's and Transformer's unstable identities, and the secrets the songs challenge us to uncover.

Lou Reed

Anthony DeCurtis

Author : Anthony DeCurtis
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316376566

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Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis Pdf

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 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. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, 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.

Lou Reed's New York

Lou Reed

Author : Lou Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : New York
ISBN : UCSD:31822035628320

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Lou Reed's New York by Lou Reed Pdf

Here, we see Lou Reed's intuitive take on New York, the city that has been the fulcrum of his creative world for decades and with which he has become indelibly identified.

Notes from the Velvet Underground

Howard Sounes

Author : Howard Sounes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473508958

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Notes from the Velvet Underground by Howard Sounes Pdf

**** COMPELLING - The Sunday Telegraph CONTROVERSIAL ... Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed narrative - The New York Times Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American songwriters of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured life. In this in-depth, meticulously researched and very entertaining biography, respected biographer Howard Sounes examines the life and work of this fascinating man, from birth to death, including his time as the leader of The Velvet Underground - one of the most important bands in rock'n'roll. Written with a deep knowledge and understanding of the music, Sounes also sheds entirely new light on the artist's creative process, his mental health problems, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to drugs and alcohol. In the course of his research, Sounes has interviewed over 140 people from every part of Lou Reed's life - some of whom have not spoken publicly about him before - including music industry figures, band members, fellow celebrities, family members, former wives and lovers. This book brings Lou Reed and his world alive.

Perfect Day

Bettye Kronstad

Author : Bettye Kronstad
Publisher : Jawbone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1911036068

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Perfect Day by Bettye Kronstad Pdf

'Hey, you! Beautiful!' The voice was compelling—an order. So I turned around. 'Yeah, you,' he said. 'What are you doing in here? You look normal.' 'I am,' I said. Bettye Kronstad met Lou Reed in 1968 as a nineteen-year-old Columbia University student; they were married, briefly, in 1973. Their relationship spanned some of the most pivotal years of his life and career, from the demise of The Velvet Underground to the writing and recording of his seminal solo masterpieces Transformer, for which Lou wrote ‘Perfect Day’ about an afternoon they spent together in the park, and Berlin, which draws on tales from Bettye’s childhood. In Perfect Day, Bettye looks back on their initially idyllic life together on the Upper East Side; Lou’s struggle to launch a solo career after leaving perhaps the most influential rock band of all time; his work and friendships with fellow stars David Bowie and Iggy Pop; and his descent into drink and drug abuse following the success of Transformer, which sent him spinning out from gentle soul to rock’n’roll animal and brought a swift and calamitous end to their relationship. The result is a powerful and poignant meditation on love, loss, writing, and music.

My Week Beats Your Year

Pat Thomas

Author : Pat Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1955125465

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My Week Beats Your Year by Pat Thomas Pdf

An anthology that uses Reed's own words to craft an intimate portrait of the prickly, intelligent, articulate, and deeply passionate artist. During his first major sit-down with the music press in 1977, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge, Elvis Costello casually remarked, "I don't really listen to Lou Reed's records, but I never miss an interview with him." Indeed, for all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular, during his long career as a rock artist, Lou Reed was never less than entertaining in his dealings with the Fourth Estate. In fact, one could go so far as to claim that, for Lou, the press became as much an implement of expression as singing, composing, and playing music. In a style at times very much informed by his mentor Andy Warhol, Reed could play the media like a Marshall-amped Stradivarius. To the majority of his fans, the apotheosis of Reed's relationship with the press, and most prominently regarded to this day, was the series of combative tête-à-têtes between Lou and the late great music journalist Lester Bangs, published in CREEM Magazine during the 1970s. My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed features 30+ interviews spanning his solo career, from the golden era of print rock-journalism, to the first online blogs. The compilation is one fan's humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy, cactus and mercury, that constituted Lou's post-Velvet Underground public media image.

Glam!: An Eyewitness Account

Mick Rock

Author : Mick Rock
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783230259

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Glam!: An Eyewitness Account by Mick Rock Pdf

“Glam was about make-up, mirrors and androgyny. It was narcissistic, obsessive, decadent and subversive. It was bohemian, but also strangely futuristic. It was Oscar Wilde meets A Clockwork Orange. It was a mutant bastard offspring of glitter. But while glitter was sparkling distraction, glam was anarchy in drag. It was sexy, glamorous, on the edge. It was the moment hippie finally died. It was absolutely rock’n’roll. But it was also fashion, art, theatre, lifestsyle. It was gay, straight, multisexual. It was totally titillating and absolutely naughty. Everybody held hands with everybody, kissed everybody, went home with everybody. It was an age of accelerated discovery, when all the kinks of sexual yearning were flushed out. It was absolutely self-indulgent and it was ridiculously camp. It was a time we thought would never end. A time so long ago now it seems like a dream. But it wasn’t and I have the pictures to prove it.” Mick Rock

Pass Thru Fire

Lou Reed

Author : Lou Reed
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786726028

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Pass Thru Fire by Lou Reed Pdf

Containing a body of work that spans more than three decades, Pass Thru Fire is a stunning collection of the lyrics of an American original. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde-Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo career-albums like Transformer, Berlin, New York, Magic and Loss, and Ecstasy-Pass Thru Fire is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate underground musician, but as one of the truly significant poets of our time.

Please Kill Me

Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain

Author : Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802142648

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Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain Pdf

Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard

Author : Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 9780743201698

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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide by Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard Pdf

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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

Joe Harvard

Author : Joe Harvard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826415509

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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard Pdf

The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the recording process. With input from co-producer Norman Dolph and Velvets fan Jonathan Richman, Harvard documents the creation of a record which - in the eyes of many - has never been matched. EXCERPT In 1966, some studios, like Abbey Road, had technicians in white lab coats, and even the less formal studios usually had actual engineering graduates behind the consoles. Studios were still more about science than art. Clients who dared make technical suggestions were treated with bemusement, derision, or hostility. The Velvets were a young band under constant critical attack, and the pressure to conform in order to gain acceptance must have been tremendous. Most bands of that era compromised with their record companies, through wholesale revamping of their image from wardrobe to musical style, changing or omitting lyrics, creating drastically edited versions for radio airplay, or eliminating songs entirely from their sets and records. With Andy Warhol in the band's corner, such threats were minimized.

I'll Be Your Mirror

Lou Reed

Author : Lou Reed
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571346011

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I'll Be Your Mirror by Lou Reed Pdf

A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMES Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums like Transformer, Berlin, and New York,Doin' The Things We Want To is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate underground musician, but as one of the truly significant visionary lyricists of the rock n' roll era. Containing a body of work that spans more than six decades, this is a monument to the literary qualities of an American original.

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs

Glenn Hendler

Author : Glenn Hendler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501336591

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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs by Glenn Hendler Pdf

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs. In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s.

The Raven

Lou Reed

Author : Lou Reed
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802199379

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The Raven by Lou Reed Pdf

The legendary musician’s distinctive artistic take on Edgar Allan Poe includes “some of the most personal lyrics of his career” (Rolling Stone). One of the most influential and innovative recording artists of the past three decades, Lou Reed has always offered a shrewd view of life in the big city in all its colors. It is no surprise, then, that he considers Edgar Allan Poe a spiritual forefather. In The Raven, Reed immerses himself in Poe’s enigmatic world and sets out to reimagine his work to mesmerizing effect. In 2001 Lou Reed, legendary theater director Robert Wilson, and an all-star cast presented the musical POEtry at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Reed’s subsequent studio adaptation, The Raven, has been hailed as one of his more daring and challenging albums. Here, accompanied by photographs by the acclaimed artist and director Julian Schnabel, is the definitive text of the CD release. The Raven includes Reed's distinctive takes on Poe’s most celebrated works, as well as song lyrics written for the musical. It is a fascinating meeting between a dark chronicler of the twentieth century and his nineteenth-century counterpart; the work of one iconoclastic genius offering a haunting exploration of another.

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

Michael Imperioli

Author : Michael Imperioli
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617756429

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The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli Pdf

An outer-borough boy moves to the foreign land of Manhattan and befriends Lou Reed, in a novel by the Emmy-winning actor and screenwriter: “A winner.”—Library Journal Matthew is a sixteen-year-old living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building in Manhattan. Although only three miles from his boyhood home, “the city” is a completely new and strange world. Soon, he befriends (and becomes a quasi-assistant to) Lou Reed, who lives with his transgender girlfriend in the same building. And the drug-addled, artistic/shamanic musician will eventually become an unorthodox father figure to Matthew, as he moves toward adulthood, adjusts to a new life, and falls head over heels for a girl wise beyond her years. “Imperioli can definitely write, and he gets high marks for the verisimilitude and empathy that he evokes.”—Booklist (starred review) “A coming-of-age tale dashed with relatable angst and humor.”—Entertainment Weekly “Some fictional trips into 1970s New York abound with nostalgia; this novel memorably opts for grit and heartbreak.”—Kirkus Reviews

Lou Reed S Transformer

Lou Reed's Transformer by Ezra Furman Pdf

Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis Pdf

Lou Reed's New York by Lou Reed Pdf

Notes from the Velvet Underground by Howard Sounes Pdf

Perfect Day by Bettye Kronstad Pdf

My Week Beats Your Year by Pat Thomas Pdf

Glam!: An Eyewitness Account by Mick Rock Pdf

Pass Thru Fire by Lou Reed Pdf

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain Pdf

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide by Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard Pdf

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard Pdf

I'll Be Your Mirror by Lou Reed Pdf

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs by Glenn Hendler Pdf

The Raven by Lou Reed Pdf

The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli Pdf

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