Perfect Day - A First Wife's Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed (Kronstad Bettye)(Paperback)

'Hey, you! Beautiful!'
The voice was compelling--an order. So I turned around.
'Yeah, you, ' he said. 'What are you doing in here? You look normal.'
'I am, ' I said. Bettye Kronstad met Lou Reed in 1968 as a nineteen-year-old Columbia University student; they were married, briefly, in 1973. Their relationship spanned some of the most pivotal years of his life and career, from the demise of The Velvet Underground to the writing and recording of his seminal solo masterpieces Transformer, for which Lou wrote 'Perfect Day' about an afternoon they spent together in the park, and Berlin, which draws on tales from Bettye's childhood. In Perfect Day, Bettye looks back on their initially idyllic life together on the Upper East Side; Lou's struggle to launch a solo career after leaving perhaps the most influential rock band of all time; his work and
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