{"product_id":"lou-reed-a-life","title":"Lou Reed: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essential biography of one of musics 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 Reeds life was a transformers 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 Reeds 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 Reeds friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reeds fivedecade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reeds 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 Reeds 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"DeCurtis, Anthony \/ hardcover","offer_id":47846705332469,"sku":"SONG0316552429","price":30.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/51Ng2gqsEPL.jpg?v=1773839356","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/lou-reed-a-life","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}