The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him. Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time.

Lou Reed: A Life

DeCurtis, Anthony

Humor & Entertainment

Little. Brown and Company

Back Bay Books

A gallery of 179 photographs, arranged by theme, explores the variety of rock 'n' roll styles over the years

Rolling Stone Images of Rock & Roll

Arts & Photography

Music

Little,Brown & Co

Product Description 
An intimate and comprehensive volume tracing the incredible musical career and creative life of the Rolling Stones. 
“As well as going back through our history we wanted everyone to experience and feel exactly what it’s like to be in the Rolling Stones.” 
For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this stunning book immerses readers in the world of the Stones. 
Peppered throughout with insightful new commentary by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood, this volume also features a compelling introduction by Anthony De Curtis, as well as essays by Buddy Guy, Don Was, Anna Sui, John Varvatos, Martin Scorsese, Shephard Fairey, Patrick Woodroffe, and Willie Williams. In addition to stills from films, videos, and documentary footage, vivid photographic sections showcase the Stones’ musical instruments, their stage clothing, album cover designs, notebooks with lyrics, and tape boxes from the original recording sessions. 
Bold, glamorous, and captivating, Unzipped is the perfect showcase for “the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world.” 370 color illustrations 
 Review 
"Wonderful... Of all the many Stones books, this well-rounded one provides behind-the-scenes satisfaction." 
 ― 
Star Tribune\n"There are books about the Stones, there are books by the Stones… and there are books that, frankly, are the Stones. Or, at least, there are now… 
Unzipped is the visual equivalent of putting on your favorite clutch of Stonesian albums and just losing yourself for a day or so." 
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Goldmine\n"A must for Stones’ fans and really anyone who loves rock ’n’ roll." 
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WAG\n"A lavish tribute to [the band’s] iconography… A very plush, surprisingly eye-opening package, not unlike the Stones' musical body of work." 
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Psychobabble\n"Presented in lavish and spectacular fashion, 
Unzipped traces not only the band’s astounding musical career but also their indelible imprint on recording, clothing, art and design, filmmaking, and concert staging… There are lots of books about the Stones’ career, but 
Unzipped takes it to another level in visually examining the band’s reach not just in music but pop culture." 
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Forbes 
 About the Author 
The Rolling Stones–Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood―have all been interviewed specially for this book.\nAnthony DeCurtis is an author and music critic. He has written for the 
New York Times, 
Relix, and 
Rolling Stone, for which he is a contributing editor.

The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

THE ROLLING STONES

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

In Other Words collects the most intimate and revealing interviews by Anthony DeCurtis, who, in the course of a distinguished 25-year career, has earned a reputation for approaching his craft with depth, seriousness and sensitivity. His many subjec

In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hal Leonard

Rock &amp; roll is about sensual transcendence--about uproarious sounds and incredible visual drama. As the lights come up and the band hits the stage, the first impression is of what the musicians are playing--and what they're wearing. Now, from Tommy Hilfiger, the fashion designer most embraced by popular musicians in the 1990s comes this compelling revue of rock style--the clothes musicians have worn for the stage and camera and for sheer, outrageous fun--from the 1950s to right now. From the patched jeans and fringe leather of Neil Young to the chameleonlike transformations of David Bowie, the looks musicians have defined for themselves is as integral a part of their message and artistic identity as their music. Drawing on an assembly of brilliant, many rarely seen images from rock's best photographers, Hilfiger (working with renowned music journalist Anthony DeCurtis) guides readers through the wild visual world of artists whose sartorial coolness has defined what's hip. Focusing on the icons of rock, hip-hop, pop and R&amp;B who have daringly pushed the edges of fashion and set trends--icons like Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Madonna and Prince--Hilfiger offers unique insights and sharp anecdotes to tell the ongoing, ever-evolving story of rock style.

Rock Style: A Book of Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B, Punk, Funk and the Fashions That Give Looks to Those Sounds

Hilfiger, Tommy

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Universe

New in paperback Rocking My Life Away represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing engagement with rock &amp; roll as artistic forum, source of personal inspiration, and compelling site of cultural struggle. Including significant new work—liner notes commissioned for the Phil Spector box set and a spirited discussion with Peter Buck of R.E.M. about rock criticism, for example—DeCurtis also ventures with insight and power beyond the world of rock &amp; roll. A joint profile of the political writers Neil Sheehan and Taylor Branch and provocative looks at the work of novelists Don DeLillo and T. Coraghessan Boyle round out this eclectic collection.

Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters

Literature & Fiction

Duke University Press Books

Rocking My Life Away represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing engagement with rock & roll as artistic forum, source of personal inspiration, and compelling site of cultural struggle. Including significant new work—liner notes commissioned for the Phil Spector box set and a spirited discussion with Peter Buck of R.E.M. about rock criticism, for example—DeCurtis also ventures with insight and power beyond the world of rock & roll. A joint profile of the political writers Neil Sheehan and Taylor Branch and provocative looks at the work of novelists Don DeLillo and T. Coraghessan Boyle round out this eclectic collection.

An A-Z guide to over 12,000 albums on compact disc, cassette and vinyl. While its star rating system separates the talent from the turkeys, its biographical and critical detail provides advice on what to buy and what to avoid.

The " Rolling Stone" Album Guide

George-Warren, Holly

Reference

Virgin Books

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Lou Reed: A Life

Lou Reed: A Life

Lou Reed: A Life

Rolling Stone Images of Rock & Roll

The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work

Rock Style: A Book of Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B, Punk, Funk and the Fashions That Give Looks to Those Sounds

Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters

Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters

The " Rolling Stone" Album Guide