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Meet Ex-rocker Turned Poet, Lou Reed, in ‘Do Angels Need Haircuts?’

Meet Ex-rocker Turned Poet, Lou Reed, in ‘Do Angels Need Haircuts?’

Reed's brand of experimental and reactionary art always contained some of his trademarks in tone, syntax, and content.

Lou Reed Gets the Gritty ’70s-era New York Treatment in ‘A Life’

Lou Reed Gets the Gritty ’70s-era New York Treatment in ‘A Life’

Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis has written an arresting, confrontational, and oftentimes beautiful biography of the notoriously cagy musician.