My Week Beats Your Year : Encounters with Lou Reed compiles over 30 interviews from throughout the icon’s career. Coming in August you can preorder it now.
Since the artist’s death in 2013, we’ve seen a collection of unreleased recordings, and his music sales spiked massively. The Velvet Underground frontman passed away due to complications with a liver transplant.
Reed began working in music at just sixteen, with a career spanning over half a century. His breakthrough album was the solo release Transformer in 1972. The album produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson bought Reed to the attention of UK audiences and put him at the forefront of the glam rock scene. His last release was the widely critiqued LuLu with members of Metallica. Recently a book of poetry by the late artist was released. After his death, a lot of his musical gear was sold on Ebay.
My Week Beats Your Year was compiled by Michael Heath and edited by Pat Thomas. It comes out via Hat & Beard Press. A pioneer in music, Reed is credited as an inspiration to many of todays music superstars. His last performance in Australia was for the 2010 Vivid festival in Sydney. With his wife he performed a 20 minute set of frequencies unable to be heard by the human ear, encouraging people to bring their dogs.
Watch: Lou Reed – “Satellite Of Love”
