Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story

Acknowledgements ix ONE Kill Your Son 1959-60 1 TWO Pushing The Edge 1960-62 18 THREE Shelly, If You Just Come Back 1962-64 52 FOUR The Pickwick Period, 1964-65 72 FIVE The Formation of the Velvet Underground 77 SIX Fun at the Factory, 1966 104 SEVEN Exit Warhol, 1966-67 135 EIGHT Exit Cale, 1967-68 153 NINE The Deformation of the Velvet Underground, 1968-70 170 TEN Fallen Knight, 1970-71 186 ELEVEN The Transformation from Freeport Lou to Frankenstein, 1971-73 201 TWELVE No Surface, No Depth, 1973-74 229 THIRTEEN The Nervous Years, 1974-76 257 FOURTEEN The Master of Psychopathic Insolence, 1977-78 304 FIFTEEN Mister Reed, 1978-79 321 SIXTEEN Ladybug, 1978-83 334 SEVENTEEN The New, Positive Lou (The Blue Lou), 1981-84 354 EIGHTEEN The Commercial, Political Lou, 1984-86 382 NINETEEN Imitation of Andy, 1987-89n 394 TWENTY Death Makes Three, 1990-1993 406 TWENTY-ONE In Which Lou Reed Cannot Put On the Velvet Underwear 1990-96 427 TWENTY-TWO The Transformation of Lou and Laurie, 1994-2000 453 Fast Forward: Val Kilmer's Ranch, The Pecos, New Mexico, 2005 466 TWENTY-THREE Ecstasy, 1999-2001 468 TWENTY-FOUR Lou Reed Rewrites Edgar Allan Poe, 2001-2004 477 TWENTY-FIVE Lou Reed Classics, 2006-2010 481 TWENTY-SIX Lou is Lulu 2011-2012 489 TWENTY-SEVEN The Death of Lou Reed, 2013 502 APPENDIX A Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson's Inventories of Work 507 APPENDIX B Interviews with Lou Reed 511 Source Notes 521 Bibliography 525 Index 535