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All the books about me are bullshit except Jeremys. Lou ReedAll the books about me are bullshit except Jeremys. Lou Reed Lou Reed influenced generations of copyists that took note of his outlaw status, ambiguous sexual orientation characterized by his seventies relationship with the transvestite Rachel, his implacable mystique, and his cool and defiant attitude as the narrator of subcultures. First published in Britain in 1994 and now available for the first time in America, Waiting for the Man, focuses on Lou Reed as rocks principal literary avatar, paying special attention to his controversial lyrics and prototypical garage sound. Author Jeremy Reed no relation is a fellow poet one praised by J. G. Ballard as the most original poet writing today and by Bjork as the most beautiful outrageous poet in the worldand thus he examines Lou Reeds career through an entirely different lens than other rock biographies.