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    Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
    Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
    Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
    Audiobook14 hours

    Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed

    Written by Aidan Levy

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    This book not only covers the highlights of Lou Reed's career, but explores lesser-known facets of his work, such as his first recordings with doo-wop group the Jades, his key literary influences, the impact of Judaism upon his work, and his engagement with the LGBT movement. Drawing from original interviews with many of his artistic collaborators, friends, and romantic partners, as well as from archival material, concert footage, and unreleased bootlegs of live performances, Dirty Blvd. exposes the man behind the myth, the notoriously uncompromising rock poet who wrote songs that transcended their genre and established himself as one of the most influential and enigmatic American artists of the past half century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781494586515

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    • 5/5
      Really enjoyed this book. I didn't previously know much about Lou's life, other than whet he shared through his music.A lot of the book is devoted to analysing Lou's music, and by and large I think Aidan Levy gets it right. He's certainly opened my ears to nuances in music I've listened to time and time again for many years.My only quibble is with the authors choice of phrasing. My vocabulary is at least average, probably a little above, but it often felt like the text I was reading had been needlessly filtered through a thesaurus, and there were times when I was confronted with too many unfamiliar words and simply glossed over them, though that didn't detract much from my enjoyment.If you know Lou's music I strongly recommend this book. If you don't, take the time to listen.
    • 4/5
      In Aidan Levy's Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed we are given a well-rounded look at the man and the artist. What makes this different, and in many ways better, than a lot of other biographies of artists is the attention to both Reed's personal life and his professional life. While a simple regurgitation of facts and stories about and artist can be an entertaining read it usually just scratches the surface. How someone approaches his art, the processes that result in different works as well as what those works are can tell as much as plain old exposition. The reader is tasked, however, with reading dynamically, which is to say to think about what a certain process means at a specific time in the artist's life and then draw conclusions from that. This biography requires work on the reader's part, the best kind of work, that which is done along with the writer to uncover nuggets of insight and appreciation.This book is well researched and quite readable regardless of how engaged one chooses to be. If Lou Reed is already one of your favorites, this book will provide more background and a wonderful perspective on how the man and his music became impossible to fully separate from each other. If you know a little about Reed or want to know why he is so important to music, this book will reward multiple readings. I would suggest reading through and getting some overall appreciation of who and what he was (and wasn't). Then begin listening to some recordings and revisiting the book with the music fresh in your mind.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.