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List of Searchable Terms
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Abdullah, Judy 30
academic probation 49
Albin, Shelley 32–41, 48, 52, 55–6, 58, 59, 65, 70–1, 89, 173, 335–6
as inspiration for Reed’s songs 43, 46, 52
meeting Reed’s family 37–8
Reed’s attempt to control 49–51
relationship breakdowns with Reed 60–3, 182, 188
resumes love affair with Reed 164–5, 171, 178
albums, bargain-basement-rip-off 74–5
alcohol abuse 241, 245, 285, 337, 338
effect on Reed’s appearances 348
Alcoholics Anonymous 349–50
All the Pretty People (poems) 315
Altman, Billy 316, 428
American Masters: Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart (film) 465
Amnesty International tour 388–90
amphetamine 118–19, 128, 247, 267–8, 280, 337
appealing aspects of 270
as drug of choice 93, 110, 118
written justification for 277
see also speed
Anderson, Jason 479
Anderson, Laurie
autobiography 464
awards 474, 482
Bright Red album 457–8, 460
collaboration with Reed 475, 479, 488, 489, 491, 492, 497, 498
and death/memorial of Reed 505–6
Homeland album/tour 482–3, 489–90, 501
Life on a String album 471–4, 475
Live in New York album 475, 476
marriage to Reed 482–3, 501
relationship with Reed 425, 450, 453–5, 456, 457–61, 469–74, 489–90
Anger, Kenneth 467
Animal Serenade album 480
Annus, Joe 43
Another View album 429
Aquila, Richard 16
Arista 297–8, 302, 313, 323, 347, 348
Reed elects to drop 356
Aronowitz, Alfred G. 97–8, 100
Ashley, Bill 11
Auden, W. H. 53
audience 191, 278
aggressiveness 240, 242, 245
in London 217
reaction to Velvet Underground 100
Australia, tour of 284
Balloon Farm (club) 143
Bangs, Lester 190, 194, 208, 249, 257, 262, 271, 278–9, 282, 287, 311
Barber, Lynden 429
Baudelaire of New York 67
Beacon Theater (New York) 377
Beckett, Samuel 53
Bellow, Saul 53, 55
Bells, The album 322–3, 413
benefit concerts
homeless children 392
Hurricane Irene 391
Berg, Gretchen 114
Berlin album 230, 233–8, 244, 250, 252, 256, 259, 261, 272, 317, 481
releasing of 234
tour 482, 483
Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse (film) 482
Between Thought and Expression (boxed set) 412–13, 451–2
Between Thought and Expression (lyrics/poems) 410–11
bisexuality 214, 219, 265
Bishop, Peter 273
Blades, Ruben 385, 391
Blairstown, New Jersey 340–1, 352, 353, 396
Blondie 305
Blue in the Face (film) 488
Blue Mask, The album 360, 361–2, 366
release of 363–4
Bohn, Chris 367
Boles, Ellard 301
Bono 385, 389, 390, 418, 505
Booth, Phillip 70
Borgheimer, Jack 74
Bourdon, David 430
Bowie, Angela 212, 215–16, 221
Bowie, David 198, 199, 202, 211–13, 214–16, 231, 255–6, 276
confession of bisexuality 219
end of collaboration with Reed 221
Bowman, Rob 412
Branca, Glenn 382, 393, 402
Bright Red album (Anderson) 457–8, 460
Brooklyn Academy of Music 402–3, 462–3
Brooklyn Youth Chorus 481
Brown, Tally 117
Browne, Jackson 155
Bruce, Jack 232
Bruce, Lenny 6, 22, 28
Burroughs, William 22, 68, 328, 477
Reed meets 328–30, 512–20
Burton, James 358, 380
Byrne, David 310
Cale, John 67, 77–83, 120–1, 125, 127, 132, 175, 427, 476, 503–4
collaboration with Reed 80–7, 397–8, 502
influence on punk 311
marriage to Betsey Johnson 163
split with Velvets 157–9
writing of memorial for Warhol 396, 397
Calhoun, Sarth 483, 486
Carroll, Jim 194, 347, 423
Cavaliere, Felix 26
Chandler, Raymond 66
Chelsea Girl album (Nico) 154–5
Chelsea Girls (film) 143, 146, 150
Cherry, Don 302, 322, 323
Christgau, Georgia 296, 324
Christgau, Robert 208, 253, 266
Christie, Rupert 481
Cinémathèque, Velvets performance at 109, 110
clones, of Lou Reed 428
Cobain, Kurt 450
Colacello, Bob 252, 291
Cole, Lloyd 428
Coleman, Omette 24, 67, 323
Collective Conscience 194, 196, 197
concerts
American, critical raves on 279
benefit 391, 392
see also tours
Coney Island Baby album 269, 275, 287, 289–90, 305, 310, 317
release of 294–7
Connection, The (Gelber) 78
Conrad, Tony 78, 79, 83, 89
Conspiracy of Hope tour 388, 390
contracts
advertising 382
breach of 288
Velvet Underground and Warhol 139–40
control
as central theme in life 350
complete, maintaining 376
drugs and 138
exercising 366
importance of 62
need for 31
tyrannical 347
convulsions 276, 277
Cooper, Alice 211, 231–2
&nbs
p; Copeland, Miles 97
Corwin, Ronald 89, 164
Cott, Jonathan 400
Creation of the Universe, The album 486, 488
creative writing 53, 55
creativity, drugs and 271
Creedmore State Psychiatric Hospital 1–2
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) 66
Cutrone, Ronnie 182, 352, 423
Dalton, David 194
Davis, Clive 297, 298, 312–13, 323, 331
Dax, Max 486
De Maria, Walter 79, 105
Dean, James 22, 27, 36, 467, 480
DeFries, Tony 276
depression 20, 63, 221, 299
paranoid 64
suicidal 73
Derogatis, Jim 415
Desertshore (Nico) 259
Desoxyn 267, 299, 300
Diamond, Godfrey 289
Dine, Jim 21
Doggett, Peter 292
Dolph, Norman 131, 133
Dom 122, 125–31, 143
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 55, 331
Downing, David 234
draft evasion 72
Dresden 499–501
Drozdowski, Ted 469
drugs 40, 60, 64–5, 67, 68, 77, 118, 241, 252, 258, 267–9, 287
acute withdrawal, effects of 189
as blame for poor sales 348
as catalyst and inhibitor for music 95
as effective tool for rock star 270
experimenting with 64–5, 137–8
forged prescription for 251
hallucinogenic 93, 145
increasing consumption of 68
multiple 337
overdose 154
police crack down on 68
prescription 267–8, 277, 300
psychiatric 190
rationalizing 82
selling 41
songwriting and 249, 269, 280
speed 93, 241, 243, 244, 246–7, 248, 249, 267–9, 276, 277, 328, 337–8
on tour 241, 242, 243, 244
Dunphy, Eamon 389
dying, fear of 189
Dylan, Bob 52, 58, 66, 182, 386–7, 418, 425
EC Comics 358
Ecstasy album 457, 464, 468–71
conversation with Life on a String album 472–4
Edison Award 442
Edwards, Henry 194, 317
Ehrlich, Dimitri 447
electroshock therapy 1–4, 17, 27, 35
aftereffects of 3
medication after 64
Eliot, T. S. 53, 295
Emerson, Eric 145, 148–9
Eno, Brian 305, 457
Epstein, Brian 154
Ertegun, Ahmet 181
Esposito, Mike 26
European tours 238–44, 261–2, 275–7, 488
Everyman Band 301, 302
Excursions on a Wobbly Rail (jazz program) 24, 25
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) 122–3, 126, 128
in Los Angeles 136–7
in San Francisco 140–1
Ezrin, Bob 232, 233–4, 481
Factory (studio) 110–22, 270, 291, 394
Reed’s position in 113
Falk, Barbara 203, 213, 225–6, 242, 243, 245, 251, 256, 257, 259, 275, 276–7, 285
family, songwriting about 11
Farber, Jim 402
Farm Aid show 384–5
Fassbinder, Rainer 418
fax maniac 443
Fear album 311
Feldman, Susan 481
Ferrari, Lenny 373, 374, 375, 376–7, 378–9
Ferris, Timothy 236, 252–3
Fevret, Christian 431, 432
Fields, Danny 116–17, 154, 194, 199–200, 289, 306, 309
Finkelstein, Nat 109
Finnegans Wake (Joyce) 56
Flanagan, Bill 372
Flynt, Henry 130
Fogel, Marty 301
Fonfara, Michael 298, 301
Fortnam, Ian 471
Fourratt, Jim 504
France, tour of 276
fraternities 29
Fricke, David 414, 460
Fullan, Sean 357
Gaines, John 43, 47
Gano, Gordon 448
gay affairs 41
gay liberation movement 177, 211
Gelb, Bernie 238–9, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244
Gelber, Jack 78
Germany, arrest in 325
Ginsberg, Allen 22, 28, 84, 145
Glancy, Ken 286
Gleason, Holly 482
glitter rock 211, 215
fading of 229
Goldberg, Jeff 256
Goldman, Albert 6, 235
Goldstein, Larry 69
Gooch, Brad 42
Gowans, Neil 418
Graham, Bill 140
Grammy Awards (1999) 464–5
Grateful Dead 137
Greenwich Village 455–6
Griffin, Katherine 24, 25
Grossman, Albert 136
Growing Up in Public album 345–6
poor sales of 348
Guangyi, Master Ren 480
Guber, Peter 21
guitar solos 361, 362
hallucinogenic drugs 93, 145
see also LSD
Hammer, Chuck 322, 347–8
Harron, Mary 306–7, 308, 427
Havel, Václav 406, 407, 408, 411
Hearn, Kevin 499, 500
heavy-metal music 253, 283, 291
Hegarty, Antony 481
Heliczer, Piero 84, 96, 105
Hell, Richard 194, 354
Heller, Fred 200, 209
Hemingway, Ernest 53
Hendrix, Jimi 187, 189, 282
hepatitis 72, 73, 141, 163, 502
heroin 60, 65, 82–3, 118, 233, 234
“Heroin” (song) 67, 100, 109, 220, 261, 272
Hetfield, James 493, 494, 498, 499
Hickey, Dave 264–5
Hodes, Barbara 116, 251, 261
Holden, Stephen 414, 457
Holmstrom, John 278, 306, 307–8, 309
Homeland album/tour (Anderson) 482, 489–90, 501
homeless children, benefit concert for 392
homosexuality 1, 12–13, 41–2, 128, 154, 196
Horses album 305, 311
Hoskyns, Barney 460
Howl (Ginsberg) 84
Hudson River Wind Meditations album 482, 488
Hughes, Fred 291
humor, Yiddish 9, 49–50
Hunter, Steve 232, 253, 481
Hurricane Irene, benefit concert for victims of 391
Hyman, Allen 8, 9–10, 12, 15, 18–19, 41, 63, 73, 87, 163, 195
college days with Reed 20–3
Hyman, Andy 12, 247
“I Heard Her Call My Name” (song) 156, 157
Idol, Billy 447
improvisational lyricist 100
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” (Schwartz) 52, 57, 389
inferiority complex, about guitar playing 364
insomnia 4, 55, 358, 396
Italy, tour of 275
Jacobs, Jim 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 244–5
Jagger, Mick 110, 274, 468
James, Henry 77
Janson, John 371
Japan, tour of 284
jealousy 256, 370
Jefferson Airplane 137, 140
Jeffreys, Garland 25–6, 343
Jewish-mother syndrome 6
Jillette, Penn 401
John, Elton 189, 258, 309
Johnson, Betsey 21, 157, 158–9, 163, 168
Johnston, Nick 460, 470
Jones, Allan 321, 436
Jones, Bill T. 475
Jones, Bob 247, 264, 267, 268, 290–1, 293, 294, 337–8
Jones, Brian, death of 180
Jones, Sharon 481
Joseph, Gus 26, 37, 48
Joyce, James 55, 56
“Junior Dad” (song) 489, 494, 496–7, 498, 500–1
Kane, Pat 441
Katz, Dennis 196, 197–8, 205, 209–10, 212, 225, 226, 233,
242–3, 245, 257, 259, 276, 286, 292
crumbling relationship with 275
reaction to Transformer 222
Katz, Steve 250, 258, 259
Kennedy, John F. 64
Kent, Nick 253, 425, 431
Kerouac, Jack 22, 29, 84, 499, 517, 518, 519
Kerr, Jim 428
Kesey, Ken 4
Klorese, Roger 235
Koch, Stephen 125
Koestler, Arthur 302
Krieger, Ulrich 483, 486
Kroll, Bernie 44
Kronfeld, Eric 343, 351, 371, 372, 377
Kronstad, Bettye 192–3, 225, 238, 240, 246
breakdown of marriage with 229–30
divorce agreement with Reed 245
Kupferberg, Tuli 109
LA and the Eldorados 44–6, 67–8
Lang, Jack 416
Laughner, Peter 295–6
lawsuits 287–8, 292
Leary, Timothy 128
Legendary Hearts album 364–6, 372
Lennon, John 28, 305
Levin, Jon 218–19
Lewis, Jerry 255
Life on a String album (Anderson) 471–4, 475
Lister, Ed 246–8, 267, 294
Live in New York album (Anderson) 475, 476
liver transplant 503
Loaded album 175, 182, 188, 193, 206
Locke, Peter 37
Lofgren, Nils 322
London, Reed in 201–4, 214–17, 232
Lonely Woman Quarterly (magazine) 47–8
Lou Reed album 205–9
Lou Reed Live album 277, 279
love/hate relationships 6–7, 120–1, 153, 179, 253, 278, 379–80
Lowell, Robert 53
Lowry, Malcolm 1
LSD 40, 65
Ludlow Street inhabitants 84–5, 97
Lulu
album 489, 493–9, 501, 502
play/musical 491–3
lyrics
as cause of blackout on radio 159
collected 457, 482
improvisational 100
about Laurie Anderson 459–60, 469–71
pro-drug, banning of 189
racial slurs in 291–2
for rock and roll 66
sexual 219
shifting emphasis to 158, 161
transforming of, into symphonies 85
McClure, Michael 141
MacLise, Angus 84, 89, 92, 142
withdrawal from group 98
McLuhan, Marshall 128
McNeil, Legs 306, 307–9, 319–20
Mad magazine 309
Madison Square Garden 378, 392, 418–19
Magic and Loss album 316, 408–18, 434, 449, 449
Maher, Fred 372, 373, 399
Malanga, Gerard 101–2, 109, 113, 116, 118, 137–8, 143, 184, 193, 315
The Marble Index (Nico) 175, 259
Martin, Gavin 471
Masters of Creative Situations 275
Max’s Kansas City 144–5, 181, 257
media exposure, increasing 382–93
Meltdown festival (1997) 464
Meltzer, Richard 194, 196
memory loss 3–4
Metal Machine Music album 119–20, 280–4, 304, 488