Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
560
Utgivningsdatum
2025-10-09
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 35 mm
Vikt
500 g
ISBN
9780241971635

Lou Reed

The King of New York

Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-10-09
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'The only Lou Reed bio you need to read' The Washington Post One of Pitchfork's ten best music books of 2023 | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023 'A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master's life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details' Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year. Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde. We witness Reed's complex partnerships with David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Cale, and Laurie Anderson; track the deadpan wit, street-smart edge, and poetic flights that defined his craft as a singer and songwriter with the Velvet Underground and beyond; and explore the artistic ambition and gift for self-sabotage he took from his mentor Delmore Schwartz. As Hermes follows Reed from Lower East Side cold-water flats to the landmark status he later achieved, he also tells the story of New York City as a cultural capital. The first biographer to draw on the New York Public Library's much-publicized Reed archive, Hermes employs the library collections, the release of previously unheard recordings, and a wealth of recent interviews to give us a new Lou Reed-a pioneer in living and writing about nonbinary sexuality and gender identity, a committed artist who pursued beauty and noise with equal fervor, and a turbulent and sometimes truculent man whose emotional imprint endures.
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Will Hermes is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, a longtime contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and The New York Times, and the author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire and Lou Reed: The King of New York. He also writes for Pitchfork and other publications, and was co-editor of SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music.