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The Powells.com Interview with Eoin Colfer

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sean.scott, February 11, 2007 (view all comments by sean.scott)
Lou Reed has used his songwriting and sociopathic P.R. persona to tell the world more than anyone could have wanted to know about a middle-class Jewish kid from Long Island who just happened to revolutionize rock'n'roll. So why does the world need another soon-to-be remaindered rock-bio?

Two reasons. One: Reed changed his personalities more often than his underwear, contradicting himself and opening as many mysteries as he solved. Two: Victor Bockris has done a damn fine job of playing Boswell to Reed's drugged-out bisexual Dr. Johnson. Collating endless reviews, interviews, and other views of Reed's life and work, Bockris has used his considerable literary skill to form a coherent, insightful narrative from Reed's often incoherent chaos of a life.

Bockris has an authorial voice that's lively yet restrained; his writing takes a back seat to the biography, but his brisk style and intelligence are worthy of Reed, America's most literary rock star. Rock journalism needs a Victor Bockris almost as much as rock music needs a Lou Reed.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780684803661

Author:

Bockris, Victor

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Rock musicians

Subject:

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Subject:

General Biography

Copyright:

1994

Series Volume:

9934.

Publication Date:

19950801

Binding:

HC

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

448