Perfect Day

Outline Press Ltd

Perfect DayAn Intimate Portrait Of Life With Lou Reed\nAuthor(s): Bettye Kronstad\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Outline Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Jawbone\nISBN-13: 9781911036067, 978-1911036067\nSynopsis\nIn this intimate and revealing memoir, Lou Reed s first wife finally tells the full story of her five-year relationship with the legendary New York singer and songwriter. Bettye met Lou 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. Here, 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 mo.