Waiting for the Man

By Jeremy Reed

Book Overview

In Waiting For The Man, Jeremy Reed focuses on Lou Reed as rock's principal literary avatar, paying special attention to his controversial lyrics and prototypical garage sound. Lou Reed influenced generations of copyists that took note of his outlaw status, ambiguous sexual orientation characterised by his seventies relationship with the transvestite Rachel, his implacable mystique, cool and defiant attitude as the narrator of subcultures. Finally the book examines the transcendent, if reluctant calm, that Reed arrived at in later life. Taking in the sweep of Reed's career from Velvet Underground to the variants of forty years of resistant solo pioneering, Waiting For The Man accesses the man and his music, with the extraordinary perception and attention to detail.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783055693
• ISBN13: 9781783055692
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Length: 288 Pages

Customer Reviews

Indispensible, delightful

This book is everything Victor Bockris's "Transformer" wasn't. This is a full-length review of Lou Reed's MUSIC. For seedy details about methamphetamine and transvestites, you'll have to look elsewhere. Jeremy Reed (no relation to Lou) is a published poet himself, and takes the approach of art first, personality second, throughout this well-written book. If you're a Lou Reed fanatic and you don't have this book, why even have a bookcase?