Archive interviews with the late Lou Reed have been compiled for a new book which will be published next month.
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The Velvet Underground icon and solo musician passed away in October 2013 at the age of 71.
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Lou reed described himself as a “f------ faggot junkie”, but it seems he preferred women to men (he married three times) and amphetamines and whisky to heroin, so that was just a pose. Doctors thought he might be schizophrenic, and recommended electroshock therapy, as it was then called, which permanently damaged his short-term memory, and poisoned his relationship with his parents and the world.
Warhol (who called him a “rat”), then Cale, “one of the most self-indulgent and self-defeating solo careers" Cale called him “a twisted and frightening scary monster, he was misogynist and racist, he beat the women called Dylan a pretentious Jew and Donna Summer a Negro."
The collection has been described as “one fan’s humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy, cactus and mercury, that constituted Lou’s post-Velvet Underground public media image”.
His sister Bunny, who became a psychotherapist, said he had “a fragile temperament”, and had been terrified of Brooklyn. On Long Island, he affected an air of urban swagger. A schoolmate found him “more advanced”: “We were drinking quarts of beer, but Lou was smoking joints… we were looking at girls in Playboy, Lou was reading The Story of O.”
Edited by Pat Thomas and compiled by Michael Heath, the book will be published in August via Hat & Beard at www.loureed.com
