Lou Reed was an influential American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained prominence as the principal songwriter and guitarist for The Velvet Underground. Though the band achieved little mainstream success during their career, they have since been recognized as one of the most influential acts of their era. Reed's lyrics daringly explored subject matter rarely addressed in rock and roll, delving into personal experiences and societal fringes with unflinching honesty. His innovative guitar work pioneered the use of distortion, feedback, and unconventional tunings, shaping a unique sonic landscape. Throughout his extensive solo career, Reed continued to push artistic boundaries, often eschewing commercial expectations to explore diverse musical and thematic territories, solidifying his status as a singular and enduring voice in rock.
'The nature of Lou Reed's lyric writing that had been hitherto unknown in rock ... gave us the environment in which to put our more theatrical vision. He supplied us with the stretch and the landscape, and we peopled it.' - David Bowie
Jinny Buffett is lonely... She's never had the comfort of a white picket fence with a loving family. Her subsidized apartment in Hollywood Florida echoes with the void of her dead Daddy, and the nights drag long into twilight while her Mama works the block outside the Margaritaville resort. It's idealistic Ms. Fleming, who's brave enough to come knocking first. She wants to see Jinny rise up and use her ace scores to escape the wheel of poverty, convincing Jinny to start a school book club, where she finds the friends and boyfriend she never knew she needed. But when her Mama spirals out of control and threatens her entire existence, it's Jinny's Everglade ancestors who arrive in a mist of magic, bringing the swamp and hope with them.
Dumped, broke and stranded at her mother's house, Amy has few options for escape. Hanging out with her ex comes with getting to know his new girlfriend, someone who looks suspiciously like Amy's younger, straighter doppelgänger. Strapped for cash and desperate to be out of her mother's home, she ends up babysitting the UFO-obsessed kids of the hot working mom down the street. Over a dull, torrid summer in the Pennsylvania suburbs, strange lights linger on the horizon, and subterranean connections reach out their tendrils in the dark, signalling another, otherworldly possibility.
After his first book of photographs was published, Lou Reed told a journalist for The Independent on Sunday that "I live on intuition and taking pictures is intuitive." Here, we see Lou Reed's intuitive take on New York, the city that has been the fulcrum of his creative world for decades and with which he has become indelibly identified. We've heard about the streets and characters for so long through his words and music, and now we can see it through his eyes. Over 100 of Reed's photographs comprise New York , an intimate view of what inspires him.
A comprehensive collection showcasing over 30 years of Lou Reed's work, covering his career from the Velvet Underground to classic albums like "Transformer," "Berlin," and "New York," as well as "Magic and Loss" and "Ecstasy."
Er hat in den sechziger Jahren mit Andy Warhol Kunst und Parties gefeiert, in den siebziger Jahren sich mit Iggy Pop und David Bowie in Berlin Drogenexzessen hingegeben und in den Achtzigern für Amnesty International engagiert. Musik gemacht hat er immer. Lou Reed ist einer der größten Rockmusiker überhaupt, eine schillernde Persönlichkeit, der die Zerrissenheit der Epoche in seinem Wesen widerspiegelt. Seine Werke versammeln schwermütige Songs wie »Venus in Furs« und »Sunday Morning« und lakonische, intime Balladen wie »Perfect Day« oder »Coney Island Baby«, aber auch harte Texte, die die raue Wirklichkeit auf den Straßen New Yorks beschreiben. Für »Pass Thru Fire« hat Lou Reed jeden Song selbst graphisch gestaltet. Entstanden ist ein Gesamtkunstwerk, das in den USA längst zum begehrten Sammlerstück wurde.
Rolled & Told is back! This collected edition contains all the adventures, mini-adventures, comics, and articles from issues seven to twelve along with extra content you couldn't get in the single issues! Each adventure is 5E compatible and ready-to-play. Rolled and Told Vol. 2 provides hours of pick-up-and-play campaigns designed both for players new to tabletop role playing and for those who have played for years. Every page is filled with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with adventures, and splash art from your favorite comic artists to inspire your players! Stop dueling gnomes in of "A Tale of Two Gnomes," go on a solo adventure with Vesska in "Forest of Delusion," and play the adventures "Ship of The Dead," "Reginald's Closet," and many more! Rolled and Told is an all-inclusive collection of ready-made one-shot adventures for new Dungeon/Game Masters!
Face off with dinosaurs in this earth-shaking volume of Science Comics, an action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle grade readers!
Berlin is a concept album that represented a brave departure from the familiar sounds and themes of Lou Reed’s earlier solo work, a tragic tale about heartbreak and addiction meant to be played live as a rock opera, in the vein of The Who’s Tommy. But its poor reception meant that plans for a live performance were put on hold until 2007, when, with a renewed confidence in the material, Reed toured with a full orchestra and choir, giving some of the most personal and powerful performances of his career. The tour was filmed by legendary artist Julian Schnabel, a longtime friend of Reed’s who also designed the spare and beautiful set, and whose daughter Lola contributed moving images projected behind the stage. This immeasurably powerful book draws on stills from Schnabel’s film, photographs of the set design, printed lyrics of Reed’s original verse, and images from Schnabel’s projections to tell the twin stories of Berlin as rock opera and as unique collaboration between two geniuses of contemporary art, music, words, and film. The book also includes a rare conversation between Reed and Schnabel.
In August of 1970, a 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Do Angels Need Haircuts? is an extraordinary snapshot of this turning point in Reed’s career. Gathering poems, photographs and ephemera from this era (including previously unreleased audio of the 1971 St. Mark’s Church reading), and featuring a new foreword by Anne Waldman and an afterword by Laurie Anderson, this book provides a window to a little-known chapter in the life of one of the most singular and uncompromising voices in American popular culture.
Ursa is reunited with her mother, the villainous Priestess, and it will take all her friends' help to stop the Priestess from taking over the world --
A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ’n’ roll—as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years—including his final interview—Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with his interviewers (he was famous for walking out on them) and sharing profound observations on the human experience, especially as he reflects on poetry and novels, the joy of live performances, and the power of sound. In conversation with legendary rock critics and authors he respected, Reed’s interviews are as pithy and brilliant as the man himself.
The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. The Art of the Straight Line features Reed's unpublished writings on the technique, practice, and purpose of martial arts, as well as essays, observations, and riffs on meditation and life.
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"Comme nul autre Lou Reed savait cueillir les instants marquants de la vie, porteurs d'une beauté parfois triste ou mélancolique, mais une beauté profonde. Il était à l'affût, à tout instant. Car il savait que la beauté ne s'annonce pas, qu'elle surgit à l'improviste, et qu'il faut être prêt à la saisir. Elle est l'inattendu. Lui aussi était l'inattendu. [...]. Il était tellement en avance qu'il va briller encore très longtemps, comme ces étoiles dont on dit qu'elles sont mortes depuis une éternité mais qui continuent de scintiller à nos yeux. Il est l'homme de demain. La mort ne peut rien contre lui." Bernard Comment
Česko-anglické vydání nejznámějších a nejpoetičtějších písňových textů textaře, kytaristy a zpěváka legendární rockové skupiny Velvet Underground.
V roce 2001 se legendární rocker Lou Reed ponořil do pochmurného světa jednoho ze svých duchovních předchůdců, Edgara Allena Poea, aby posléze vytvořil podnětné a originální dílo: POE-Try, cyklus písní, jejichž divadelní podobu později režíroval slavný Robert Wilson. Písně vyšly v roce 2003 na kompaktním dvojdisku pod názvem Raven (Havran). Lou Reeda napadlo vydat texty písní, obohacené ilustracemi, knižně. Vybral si grafika a komiksového kreslíře Lorenza Mattottiho (*1954). Výsledkem je kniha The Raven (Le corbeau), kterou vydalo francouzské nakladatelství Seuil (2010). Obrazový doprovod tvoří expresivní ilustrace, které nezobrazují vnější realitu, ale pocity, duševní stavy, frustrace, jak je pro Mattottiho obvyklé. Zcela určitě zaujmou i silné a neobvyklé barevné kontrasty a deformované tvary lidských těl či předmětů.
