I'll Be Your Mirror

A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMES

Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of

Lou Reed's lyrics with

brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with

Metallica,

Lulu.

Through his many incarnations-from proto

punk 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

Transformer,

Berlin, and

New York,

Doin' The Things We Want To 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.