One of Reed’s songs tells of his life pre-fame, when his teenage years were spent in a torturous psychiatric hospital: ‘Kill ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Sometimes things just make sense, like Anthony DeCurtis writing the definitive ...

Anthony DeCurtis’ “Lou Reed: A Life” confirms just how perverse Lou Reed could be, and I am not talking about drug use or sexuality. Reed had a “propensity to switch conceptual gears midproject while ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The life and times of the late rocker Lou Reed will be detailed in a biography that will be penned by Rolling Stone magazine writer Will Hermes, publisher Farrar, Straus and ...

Anthony DeCurtis' "Lou Reed: A Life" confirms just how perverse Reed could be, and I am not talking about drug use or sexuality. Reed had a "propensity to switch conceptual gears mid-project while ...

"I hate Lou Reed more and more," Andy Warhol wrote in his diary in 1986, 20 years after the artist helped launch the singer's career with the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed: A Life, by Anthony DeCurtis ...

No rocker explored the dark underbelly of his own psyche — or ours — as did Lou Reed. And few made it so hard for fans, rock critics and biographers to answer the question: Who was the real Lou Reed?

In the 1990s, rock 'n' roll colossus Lou Reed (1942-2013) and his equally prodigious partner, multimedia visionary Laurie Anderson, were a common sight around Manhattan, engrossed in conversation, a ...

Anthony DeCurtis’ “Lou Reed: A Life” confirms just how perverse Reed could be, and I am not talking about drug use or sexuality. Reed had a “propensity to switch conceptual gears mid-project while ...

At first glance, Lewis Allan Reed wasn’t all that different from the other middle-class Jewish lads he grew up with in 1950s Freeport, New York. He was a diligent student and an avid tennis player; he ...

Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis knew Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed and considered him a friend. So when it came time to write a biography of the late singer-songwriter, ...

Lou Reed famously held journalists in low esteem. But the renowned singer/songwriter, founder of The Velvet Underground and godfather of glam and punk, liked Anthony DeCurtis, longtime contributing ...