Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
by Victor Bockris
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'A triumph' - Time Out Transformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story. Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now discover the true story of the Velvet Underground pioneer in this update of Bockris's classic biography. Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story follows the great songwriter and singer through the series of transformations that define each period of his fifty year show more career. It opens with the teenage electroshock treatments that dominated his memories of childhood and never stops revealing layer after layer of this complex and often anguished artist and man. Transformer is based on Lou's collaborations with the hardest and most romantic artists of his times, from John Cale, Andy Warhol, and Nico, through David Bowie, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson and the ghost of Edgar Alan Poe. Rippling underneath everything he did are Lou's relationships with his various muses, from his college sweetheart to his three wives (and one drag queen). Leading Lou Reed biographer, Victor Bockris - who knew Lou throughout the Rachel Years, from Rock 'n' Roll Animal to the Bells - updates his original biography in the wake of Lou's death. Through new interviews and photos, he reveals the many transformations of this larger-than-life character, including his final shift from Rock Monster to the Prince Charming he had always wanted to be in the twenty years he spent with the love of his life, Laurie Anderson . Except with Lou, you could never really know what might happen next... Including previously unseen photographs and contributions from Lou's innermost circle and collaborators that include similarly esteemed artists such as Andy Warhol and David Bowie, Transformer is as captivating and vivid a read as befits an American master. show lessTags
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Me encanta este libro, ahora lo miro y recuerdo los ratos que pase agradables con el sr. Reed y sus amigos y sus paseos por nueva york y conoci historias de la musica antigua y moderna. Me parece una gran obra autorizada de la biografia de Lou Reed.
Oct 28, 2008Spanish
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Victor Bockris has spent over thirty years writing about the cultural heroes of the twentieth century. He is the author or co-author of major biographies of Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, John Cale, Patti Smith, the Velvet Underground, Bebe Buell, and many others. He lives in New York City
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- Music, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166092 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal music [formerly: Dramatic music and production of musical drama] Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- ML420 .R299 .B6 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Dutch, English, German, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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