Lou Reed

A GUARDIAN AND CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR ''A walk on the wild side with the alt-rock pioneer'' GQ ''DeCurtis is well placed to trace Reed''s five-decade career, drawing on insider knowledge but skilfully balancing it with detailed research and fascinating interviews'' Mojo Magazine As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once the height of sanctity and perversity, transcended a genre, speaking to millions of listeners, inspiring a new generation of musicians, and forever changing the way we think of that iconic era of sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll. Throughout his five-decade career, Reed embodied artistic self-awareness and captured the beauty, paranoia, and vivacity of his time into an array of hit songs, experimental albums, and a larger-than-life persona. With such masterpieces as ''Sweet Jane'' and ''Walk on