Lou Reed was een invloedrijke Amerikaanse singer-songwriter en gitarist, die aanvankelijk bekendheid verwierf als de belangrijkste songwriter en gitarist van The Velvet Underground. Hoewel de band tijdens hun carrière weinig commercieel succes kende, worden ze sindsdien erkend als een van de meest invloedrijke acts van hun tijd. Reeds teksten verkenden gedurfde onderwerpen die zelden in rock-'n-roll werden behandeld, en doken met onwrikbare eerlijkheid in persoonlijke ervaringen en maatschappelijke randfiguren. Zijn innovatieve gitaarspel was een pionier in het gebruik van vervorming, feedback en onconventionele stemmingen, wat een uniek klanklandschap vormde. Gedurende zijn uitgebreide solocarrière bleef Reed artistieke grenzen verleggen, waarbij hij commerciële verwachtingen vaak vermeed om diverse muzikale en thematische gebieden te verkennen, en zo zijn status als een unieke en blijvende stem in de rock consolideerde.
'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
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.
This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.
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 Romanticism , Lou Reed's third photo collection, the subjects are various landscape and architectural motifs encountered and documented in travels through Scotland, Denmark, Spain, Rome, China and Big Sur in California. The approach is at once formal and steeped in feeling. As Reed states, recalling the contexts for these images, "The trees and the wind billowing and dancing in Edinburgh reminding me of the storm I fell in love with in Cork. The perspectives and range of blacks and whites the perfect thing for a film noir fan."Lou Reed was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and is a founding member of the legendary band, the Velvet Underground. He has acted in and composed music for a number of films, and is the recipient of the Chevalier Commander of Arts and Letters from the French government. He is the author of Pass thru The Collected Lyrics and the play The Raven . His previous books of photography, both published with Steidl, include Lou Reed's New York and Emotion in Action .
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.