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 ge
Lou Reed: A Life
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2017
- Category
- Fiction
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