Available on The Week Bookshop Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes Lou Reed, the lead vocalist of the Velvet Underground, who died in 2013, already has a longish shelf of biographies.

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the ...

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