How The Worst Person Who Ever Lived By Lou Reed

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Lou Reed, the "stupid, disgusting, awful human being.”

Howard Sounes known for his biography of Bob Dylan, Down the Highway, will release his second book, Notes From the Velvet Underground, on the 22nd of October. For this book Sounes interviewed more than a 100 people, from his school friends to the Velvet Underground manager, Paul Morissey. Morissey when interviewed by Sounes gave his own title suggestions: The Worst Person Who Ever Lived or The Hateful Bitch, according to him people may not want to learn more about Reed as he was "a stupid, disgusting, awful human being."

This biography describes Reed under a new light, not the genius who wrote Sweet Jane, but the "monster", as Sounes describes him to The Daily Beast, who hit women.

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