‘A triumph’ - Time Out
Transformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story.
Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now discover the true story of the Velvet Underground pioneer in this update of Bockris’s classic biography.
Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story follows the great songwriter and singer through the series of transformations that define each period of his fifty year career. It opens with the teenage electroshock treatments that dominated his memories of childhood and never stops revealing layer after layer of this complex and often anguished artist and man. Transformer is based on Lou’s collaborations with the hardest and most romantic artists of his times, from John Cale, Andy Warhol, and Nico, through David Bowie, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson and the ghost of Edgar Alan Poe. Rippling underneath everything he did are Lou’s relationships with his various muses, from his college sweetheart to his three wives (and one drag queen).
Leading Lou Reed biographer, Victor Bockris - who knew Lou throughout the Rachel Years, from Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal to the Bells - updates his original biography in the wake of Lou’s death. Through new interviews and photos, he reveals the many transformations of this larger-than-life character, including his final shift from Rock Monster to the Prince Charming he had always wanted to be in the twenty years he spent with the love of his life, Laurie Anderson . Except with Lou, you could never really know what might happen next…
Including previously unseen photographs and contributions from Lou’s innermost circle and collaborators that include similarly esteemed artists such as Andy Warhol and David Bowie, Transformer is as captivating and vivid a read as befits an American master.

Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story

BOCKRIS, Victor

Humor & Entertainment

Harper

Keith Richards: The Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Poseidon Press

This is the biography of Lou Reed, the singer/songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the surviving cult heroes of rock 'n' roll. Chief songwriter for the Velvet Underground - the band produced by Andy Warhol - Reed introduced drugs and aberrant sexuality into the American pop song.

Lou Reed: The biography

Hutchinson

Victor Bockris visits Muhammed Ali during 73/74 training for his fight in Zaire against George Foreman.

Muhammed Ali In Fighter's

RANDOM HOUSE UK

From early 1973 through to the summer of 1974, Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain his title from George Foreman. His account portrays the poet, preacher and performer side of Ali, rather than focusing on his boxing career.

Muhammad Ali In Fighters Heaven

Arrow

Lou Reed led the revolution in rock music that would grow into such different forms as glam and punk rock, and introduced such taboo subjects as drugs and aberrant sexuality into the American pop song. This first full biography of the chameleon-like figure who has continually revised and reinvented himself probes beneath the myths and contradictions of Reed's life to set the record straight.

Transformer

Da Capo Press

Artist, filmmaker, writer, rock producer, publisher, and the leading exponent of Pop Art, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) used his canvasses of dollar bills, soup cans, disasters, and celebrities to erase the distinction between high and popular culture. His spectacular career shaped and encompassed the underground scene of drugs, sex, and punk rock as well as the equally deviant worlds of big business, politics, show business, and high society. Victor Bockris was Warhol's friend and worked at his famous Factory. Based on the author's intimate knowledge and interviews with family, friends, lovers, business associates, and enemies, this definitive biography reveals Warhol's complex and controversial life.

Warhol

Movies

For over thirty years Keith Richards has been the Rolling Stones' guitarist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a highly respected solo artist. Keith Richards , based on Victor Bockris's exclusive interviews with the musician, his family, and friends, is not just the only full-length biography of this pivotal and legendary figure but the definitive one.

In the photographs of Chris Stein and words of Debbie Harry, Making Tracks details the story of Blondie, whose career propelled them from the depths of the Bowery to international renown as the hottest rock group in the world. Victor Bockris aided in the formation of the text and selection of photographs, which also provides an intimate portrait of the unique collaboration between Debbie and Chris.

Making Tracks: The Rise Of Blondie

Stein, Chris

Harry, Debbie

Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founding members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them—rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals—revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Terry Southern, Martin Amis, and Susan Sontag. Bockris's conclusion—that Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punks—is argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.

Beat Punks

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Books by BOCKRIS, Victor

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Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story

Keith Richards: The Biography

Lou Reed: The biography

Muhammed Ali In Fighter's

Muhammad Ali In Fighters Heaven

Transformer

Warhol

Keith Richards: The Biography

Making Tracks: The Rise Of Blondie

Beat Punks