Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For the Man Lou Reed dug into the depths of pure despair.
He used to assert how great rock 'n roll was, which is why people should start dying for it.
The truth is you don't fully understand music, at least not until it can give you back the rhythm to dream: "An entire generation running for a Fender bass, people have to die for music.
You die for everything else, so why not do it for music?", he would say.
It almost seems that for him life was too awful to go on.
Lou Reed's words are a great way to approach the history of punk.
Lou's glory was showing us how everything is truly a mess.
He urges you to go further, down into the depths of hell, to have all the experiences life has to offer, the deep and the profane, before deciding whether to end it all.
There is always a fascination with personalities capable of living boundary-pushing psychic experiences like William Burroughs or Norman Mailer, to name a few. Lou Reed was someone who knew the real secrets of life and sought to extract some truth from it.
He had been the most influential artist of his entire generation, plain and simple.
Yes, the Beatles and the Stones were more popular, but when it comes to the honesty of human emotions, nobody could beat Lou Reed.
Any oddity, anything private and too mortifying to admit, he had already tucked away in a song. (source: "Radio Chinaski")
