New book says SU alum Lou Reed was a 'monster' who hit women, used racial slurs, A new book describes a abundant darker adaptation of Lou Reed than his obituary did.
"Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Activity of Lou Reed," a adventures accounting by Howard Sounes, describes the backward singer-songwriter as a agitated man who exhausted women and acclimated ancestral slurs. According to NME, the author, who's aswell accounting books about Bob Dlyan and Amy Winehouse, interviewed 140 of Reed's accompany and associates, including ancestors members, ex-wives and bandmates.
Sounes told the Daily Beast he abstruse about the Syracuse University alumnus' animal ancillary while researching his claimed life.
"I admired his music, but you accept to go area the adventure goes," Sounes said. "The obituaries were a bit too kind, he was absolutely a actual abhorrent man. A monster really; I anticipate absolutely the chat monster is applicable."Sounes aggregate at atomic two examples of Reed accepting a "misogynist [who] hit women." His aboriginal wife, Bettye Kronstad, said she recalled accepting affianced adjoin a bank and accustomed a atramentous eye. An old academy friend, Allan Hyman, said he saw Reed accepting so mad at a adherent that he'd "smash her about the aback of the head."
"[My wife said,] 'Lou, if you abide to hit her, you accept to leave,'" Hyman said. "And again he smacks her in the aback of the head. So she said, 'Get out!'"
According to Spin, Reed allegedly said racist things about adolescent musicians, such as "I don't like n---ers like Donna Summer" and calling Bob Dylan a "pretentious k-ke."
This is not the aboriginal time a book has posthumously aloft questions about Reed's claimed life. The Daily Mail letters addition biography, "Dirty Blvd: The Activity and Music of Lou Reed," declared Reed as accepting electroshock analysis at New York's Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital because of brainy bloom issues.
Reed's acreage has not yet commented on the accusations in the new books. The 1964 SU graduate, inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as both a Velvet Underground affiliate and a abandoned artist, died in 2013.
"Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Activity of Lou Reed" hits bookstores Oct. 22.
"Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Activity of Lou Reed," a adventures accounting by Howard Sounes, describes the backward singer-songwriter as a agitated man who exhausted women and acclimated ancestral slurs. According to NME, the author, who's aswell accounting books about Bob Dlyan and Amy Winehouse, interviewed 140 of Reed's accompany and associates, including ancestors members, ex-wives and bandmates.Sounes told the Daily Beast he abstruse about the Syracuse University alumnus' animal ancillary while researching his claimed life.
"I admired his music, but you accept to go area the adventure goes," Sounes said. "The obituaries were a bit too kind, he was absolutely a actual abhorrent man. A monster really; I anticipate absolutely the chat monster is applicable."Sounes aggregate at atomic two examples of Reed accepting a "misogynist [who] hit women." His aboriginal wife, Bettye Kronstad, said she recalled accepting affianced adjoin a bank and accustomed a atramentous eye. An old academy friend, Allan Hyman, said he saw Reed accepting so mad at a adherent that he'd "smash her about the aback of the head."
"[My wife said,] 'Lou, if you abide to hit her, you accept to leave,'" Hyman said. "And again he smacks her in the aback of the head. So she said, 'Get out!'"
According to Spin, Reed allegedly said racist things about adolescent musicians, such as "I don't like n---ers like Donna Summer" and calling Bob Dylan a "pretentious k-ke."
This is not the aboriginal time a book has posthumously aloft questions about Reed's claimed life. The Daily Mail letters addition biography, "Dirty Blvd: The Activity and Music of Lou Reed," declared Reed as accepting electroshock analysis at New York's Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital because of brainy bloom issues.
Reed's acreage has not yet commented on the accusations in the new books. The 1964 SU graduate, inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as both a Velvet Underground affiliate and a abandoned artist, died in 2013.
"Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Activity of Lou Reed" hits bookstores Oct. 22.
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