I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
Lou Reed Faber & Faber Social

I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics

Pages

680

Format

Hardcover

Release date

November 2020

Publisher

Faber & Faber Social

Weight

2.6 lbs

Size

6.3 x 1.97 x 9.33

I'll Be Your Mirror is an updated, comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, featuring a brand-new introduction by Nils Lofgren and a new chapter of lyrics of songs he and Reed cowrote, as well as introductions from several other well-known collaborators.

Through his many incarnations-from protopunk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde-Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums like TransformerBerlin, and New YorkI'll Be Your Mirror is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate underground musician, but as one of the truly significant visionary lyricists of the rock 'n' roll era.

Containing a body of work that spans more than six decades, this is a monument to the literary qualities of an American original-and a must-have for music lovers everywhere.