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Originally Posted by Genteel Death
There’s a book that came out by a guy named Jeremy Reed (Waiting For The Man: The Life and Career of Lou Reed) that says that my father beat my mother and a host of other things. It’s just so ludicrous, and for someone to be that facile in interpreting lyrics as truth is… I mean, do we take D.H. Lawrence and assume everything is authentic?"
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A former friend used to work in bookshop with Jeremy Reed, he always struck me as a bit of a twit. It doesn't surprise me that he mistook Lou Reed's lyrics for for historical facts.