He is definitely in the top five rock and rollers ever, as a songwriter, as a performer, as a visionary, as an influence on others, and as unpredictable and grating as is necessary to be a star.
Mr. Mitchell, thank you very much for this excellent stuff of yours!! I'm a "self-styled" reedologue and this amounts to a valuable discovery to me. Just for the sake of completeness, let me tell you that I was privileged to have been given three extensive interviews by Lou Reed in Prague back in the 1990s when he used to come here both, to play and meet with the then President Havel.
He is definitely in the top five rock and rollers ever, as a songwriter, as a performer, as a visionary, as an influence on others, and as unpredictable and grating as is necessary to be a star.
"...As unpredictable and grating as necessary..."
As usual Lucian, succinct and to the point.
Mr. Mitchell, thank you very much for this excellent stuff of yours!! I'm a "self-styled" reedologue and this amounts to a valuable discovery to me. Just for the sake of completeness, let me tell you that I was privileged to have been given three extensive interviews by Lou Reed in Prague back in the 1990s when he used to come here both, to play and meet with the then President Havel.
Zdenek V. Pecka
Thanks. Pretty amazing stuff. Are Lou’s Crawdaddy pieces available digitally at all? .
No, not at all....