Transformer

by Victor Bockris

  They were published in Advertising Age, Aquarian, Arena, Aspen, Bob, Chicago Sun-Times, Circus, Cover, Crawdaddy, Creem, Details, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Evening Standard, Evergreen Review, Forced Exposures, Freeport Leader, Fusion, GQ, Guardian, Guitar, Guitar World, High Times, Hit Parader, Independent, Interview, Jazz and Pop, Life, Little Caesar, Lonely Woman Quarterly, Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Ludd’s Mill, Melody Maker, Mojo Penthouse, Musician, New Musical Express, Newsweek, New York, New York Newsday, New York Post, New York Rocker, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Observer, Option, Partisan Review, People, Phonograph Record, Playboy, Pulse, Punch, Q, Rapid Eye, Record, Record Collector, Record Mirror, Reuters, Riverfront Times, Rock, Rolling Stone, Scene, Select, Smart, Sounds, Spin, Sunday Correspondent, Sunday Times, Tatler, Time, Time Out, Times, Trouser Press, USA Today, Utne Reader, Vanity Fair, Vibrations, Village Voice, VOX, Washington Post, Weekend Guardian, What Goes On: The Velvet Underground Appreciation Society Newsletter, and Wire.

  Lou Reed’s memorial service at the Apollo Theater, New York, produced a number of wonderful word pictures of Lou. I have quoted briefly from some of them.

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  The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to quote material: “Reed has been … kick of autobiography”, “According to Hal … different backgrounds”, “One day … of that”, Rolling Stone; “I love Lulu … sounds magnificent”, Tribute Content Agency; “Lou came in … that day”, Guardian News & Media Ltd; “[This] features … and the band.”, Clash Magazine, Music Republic Ltd.

  Every attempt has been made to track down the original sources of this book. If anybody whose work is quoted herein is not mentioned above, the author apologizes and would be glad to rectify the mistake.

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