Transformer: The Lou Reed Story

Acknowledgements 9 1 Kill Your Son 1959-60 13 2 Pushing The Edge 1960-62 27 3 Shelly, If You Just Come Back 1962-64 57 4 The Pickwick Period, 1964-65 75 5 The Formation of the Velvet Underground 80 6 Fun at the Factory, 1966 104 7 Exit Warhol, 1966-67 131 8 Exit Cale, 1967-68 148 9 The Deformation of the Velvet Underground, 1968-70 163 10 Fallen Knight, 1970-71 177 11 The Transformation from Freeport Lou to Frankenstein, 1971-73 191 12 No Surface, No Depth, 1973-74 216 13 The Nervous Years, 1974-76 242 14 The Master of Psychopathic Insolence, 1977-78 283 15 Mister Reed, 1978-79 298 16 Ladybug, 1978-83 309 17 The New, Positive Lou (The Blue Lou), 1981-84 327 18The Commercial, Political Lou, 1984-86 351 19 Imitation of Andy, 1987-89 362 20 Death Makes Three, 1990-1992 372 21 In Which Lou Reed Cannot Put On the Velvet Underwear 1990-93 391 22 Queen of scars, 1993-1994 411 Appendix 419 Source Notes 428 Bibliography 430 Index 438