Rock as minimal modernism: Lou Reed, 1942–2013
‘I wouldn’t recommend me as entertainment’. Lou Reed, 1978. It has acquired the status of a primal scene. 1964. A party in New York’s Lower East Side, the mythical site of the period. Terry Phillips, an executive at Pickwick Records, meets two ‘long-haired’ young men. Thinking they look the part, he asks them if they […]