Lou Reed
Metal Machine Mystic
Will be published approx. on 2. March 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-63964-098-0 (ISBN)
Description
One of rock music's most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before through the diffuse lens of his most extreme work: Metal Machine Music. Initially dismissed as fake avant-garde or a calculated insult, over the course of a half century it has acquired a growing number of open-eared music fans, becoming a kind of secret handshake of hipness. Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic is the first book ever to focus on Metal Machine Music as the key to understanding its creator. Entertaining and provocative, drawing on extensive research and fresh interviews, it reveals the secrets of the album's making and its purpose, as well its immediate aftermath, astonishing rehabilitation, and continuing influence.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-1-63964-098-0 (9781639640980)
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Person
David Holzer is a professional writer and independent scholar of music, the counterculture and esoteric thought and practces, and a lifelong Lou Reed obsessive who Laurie Anderson described as a " wild scholar" . In summer 2025, he wrote the liner notes for Sony Legacy's Metal Machine Music tribute Power to Consume vol. 1. In a previous life, David wrote communicaXons copy for some of the biggest brands in the world, nonprofits, and government. As a journalist he's wricen for specialist music, Beat literature and yoga and mindfulness magazines.