Lou Reed: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Autor Anthony DeCurtisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2018
Imagineați-vă o figură care refuză sistematic să fie plăcută, un artist care își întâmpină publicul cu un amestec de ostilitate și genialitate pură. Misterul lui Lou Reed nu constă doar în polarizarea pe care a creat-o, ci în modul în care un tânăr din Long Island, pasionat de doo-wop, a ajuns să redefinească limitele acceptabilului în cultura rock. Observăm că Lou Reed nu este doar o cronică a succesului, ci o incursiune în psihologia unui om care a navigat între sfințenie și perversitate, transformând paranoia epocii sale în artă pură. Remarcăm cum Anthony DeCurtis, un veteran al revistei Rolling Stone, reușește să străpungă masca de 'Godfather of Punk' pentru a dezvălui vulnerabilitățile din spatele capodoperelor precum 'Walk on the Wild Side'. Pe același raft cu Dirty Blvd., dar cu un accent pe contextul literar și nuanțele interviurilor directe, această biografie beneficiază de rigoarea unui autor care a documentat fenomenul rock timp de decenii. Dacă în lucrări precum Exploring U2 DeCurtis analiza impactul cultural al unei trupe-instituție, aici el se concentrează pe atomizarea identității individuale. Stilul este cinematic, purtându-ne din studiourile unde s-a născut sunetul The Velvet Underground până în anturajul lui Andy Warhol. Este o lectură care echilibrează cercetarea metodică cu intimitatea unei confesiuni, oferind o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care Reed a influențat generații întregi de muzicieni, de la David Bowie la Sonic Youth.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1444794604
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 134 x 216 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile rock-ului alternativ dincolo de miturile urbane. Anthony DeCurtis oferă o perspectivă avizată asupra dualității lui Lou Reed: poetul sensibil și provocatorul necruțător. Veți câștiga o imagine de ansamblu asupra scenei artistice newyorkeze și veți descoperi cum rigoarea literară a influențat versurile care au schimbat muzica secolului XX.
Descriere
'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 the Wild Side', Reed exerted an influence on popular music rivaled only by the likes of Bob Dylan and the Beatles and is recognized to this day as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
Now, just a few years after Reed's death, comes the thrilling, provocative story of his complex life. An acclaimed Rolling Stone contributor, Anthony DeCurtis interviewed Reed extensively and knew him well. With unparalleled access to Reed's friends, family, and dozens of other intimate relations, DeCurtis brings Reed's story compellingly alive and deepens our understanding of his indelible music. We travel deep into the underground artist clubs, listen along in the studio as the Velvet Underground record their signature work, and revel in Reed's relationship with legendaries like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and David Bowie. Insightful, revelatory, and intimate, Lou Reed is a gripping tribute to a quintessential American icon.
Recenzii
Anthony DeCurtis captures the soul and the essence of Lou Reed in his terrific new biography of the brilliant, culture-shaping musician. DeCurtis' great gift of storytelling gives fascinating insight and perspective to Reed's complex personality and cutting-edge musical talent. This is a must read
How did a middle-class suburban boy grow up to be king of Manhattan's wild side? Thanks to this groundbreaking biography, now we know . . . A must-read for fans of rock and roll, New York City, or sex
Lou Reed was one of music's most brilliant and complicated figures-an explorer, a provocateur, and always a true artist. With grace and grit, Anthony DeCurtis has delivered a revelatory and insightful chronicle of this most challenging rock & roll icon, and Lou Reed gets the biographer he deserves
Lou Reed is Lou Reed!
A brilliant artist has found a biographer with the insight to, as Lou said, 'pass through the fire' and be a definitive interpreter of both his music and his life
Completely captivating
An eloquent account of a harrowing life transformed by love in the end. Anthony DeCurtis does a brilliant job of synthesizing the disparate parts of Lou Reed's life into an insightful, moving narrative. I highly recommend it
Anthony DeCurtis was one of the few music critics Lou Reed read and whose company he enjoyed. After reading this sublime and subtle book, the mystery of Lou's respect for Anthony is revealed. Anthony is a great story teller, a writer's writer, turning pain into beauty the way Lou did in his songs
There were, [DeCurtis] states in the introduction, "aspects of his sex life, his drug use, and his cruelty" that Reed would "have loved to erase" - yet, while less prurient than other recent biographers, DeCurtis recognises that an airbrushed portrait would be a travesty of a life
An even-handed, well-researched portrait
A serious and comprehensive account
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