Lou Reed was born 78 years ago today. Read our 1979 cover story on the artist
, records he now denounces as trivial, commercial contrivances.
Lou pauses and smiles curtly. “Life, as I had come to know it, had made me nervous. I’ve probably had more of a chance to make an asshole out of myself than most people, and I realize that. But then not everybody gets a chance to live out their nightmares for the vicarious pleasures of the public.”, Lou and I meet in the same bar. Instead of his usual playfully testy demeanor, he seems sullen, almost solitary.
Lou signals the waitress over to order a double Johnny Walker straight. He seems to be coming alive a bit to the idea of conversation, his eyes studying me as he talks. “I have songs about killing people, but Dostoevski killed people, too. In reality I might not do what a character in my songs would, if only because I’d be jailed.
“Anyway, there wasn’t anything like us at the time of the Velvet Underground. There still isn’t. ‘Heroin’ is just as right on the nose now as it was ten years ago. Shocking? I suppose, but I always thought it was kind of romantic.”“Yes, because it’s not really like that at all,” he replies. “There’s not that much strain in that world. I’ve had kids come up to me and say, ‘You turned me on to junk because of that song.’ Well, you can’t concern yourself with being a parent for the world.
I’m not sure what to say for the moment, so I sit there, returning his stare. I recall something he said the day before about Delmore Schwartz: “It must have been really incredible to have been good-looking, a poet and be straight.”everal days later, Lou is in Los Angeles for a series of shows at the Roxy. On the afternoon of his last show, I visit him at his Beverly Hills hotel and find him lying on the floor before the TV, watching a videotape of the previous night’s performance.
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