I loved the last Peter Gabriel album, where his transcendent cover (cocreation? PG supplied the melody) of Lou Reed’s “The Power of the Heart” (which somehow quotes “Ol’ Man River” in a love song to Laurie Anderson) almost balances out the Lou-Metallica combo/car crash. Speaking of Lou, James Wolcott’s memoir of NYC in the 70s contains a scene in CBGB’s where a regular picked up David Byrne and swung him around. “Had she tried that with Lou Reed,” Wolcott writes, “he might have burst into mummy dust.” An image I will forever associate with Lou: mummy dust.
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– Tom Fredrickson is the proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax Method.
