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LOU REED 1989 – 2011 ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

Ethan Roy

ISBN 978-1-78952-319-5

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Publication: 26 APRIL 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523195
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789522839 Lou Reed 1972 to
1986 On Track

• The second volume, completing this little series
on Lou Reed
• Commercial and critical success in this later
period – two top 20 albums in the UK
• Also includes his final album with Metallica

In this, the second of two volumes on Lou Reed, we will see
the phoenix-like rebirth of his career occur in terms of both
critical and public resurrection and redemption. Starting in
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ 1989, Lou Reed would release a trio of stunning LPs that
would finally give him the respect and success that he felt had
Ethan Roy is a professor of English Composition at Hudson Valley so eluded him for most of his career. Having finally gained
such a long-deserved, lofty position among the critics and
Community College in Troy, NY. A deep-dish music geek since pre- fans, he would spend the duration of his life and career both
natal status, at 16 years of age, he dropped out of high school in bitterly shunning and cagily embracing his new-found elder
order to secure full-time employment at what was the best record status of ‘artistic outlier/punk progenitor.’ In this, the second
store in his community, thus affording him a real education of true half of his career, Lou Reed would revise, and subsequently
merit and value. He has played and recorded with various bands over rebuff, old musical alliances and allegiances, forge new
the years and occasionally makes instrumental electronic nonsense ground both within and without music, and as is typical for Lou,
under the name, Moon Risk 7. His first tattoo was the image from the struggle against and lash out at the very things he wished to
front cover of Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask LP. achieve for himself, both personally and professionally.

We will also observe the puzzling and at times erratic final
decade of Lou’s artistic life, which due to a lack of new
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in his final release a collaboration with a globally- successful
Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. band that still baffles and disgruntles listeners to this day.
Email: orders@combook.co.uk Despite having bid farewell to his wild days, the years of 1989
Phone: 01892 837171 to 2011 were by no means fruitless for Lou Reed. His voice,

Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change his vision, and his guitar playing, truly, his own personal Magic
without notice. 09/11/2023 and Loss, are very much the passionate and untamed forces
that they were throughout his entire life, and his works of this
time display that clearly, time after time.