Profile on Lou Reed
Lou Reed died on Sunday, and as a tribute the Boston Globe put out a profile. As I will be writing my own profile on someone in the coming weeks, I think this is an opportunity to look at some of the techniques used by Boston Globe contributor James Reed.
Though the profile is short, and could be seen more as a eulogy as anything else, but it goes into some details about the importance of Reed's work on our culture, and talks a little bit about his life. It talks about some of the taboo topics that Reed's music highlighted, like transsexuality and drug use, as well as some of the songs that have influenced our society such as "A Perfect Day"
Reed died at the age of 71 after complications from a liver transplant that he had received a two weeks ago.
The article also talks about Reed's relationship with journalists and journalism. "For every story written about his music, there’s at least another one about the hell and shot nerves that went hand in hand with interviewing him." writes James Reed.
This piece is not very long, and when I plan to write my own profile on someone, I will most likely take a different approach. As I said, this is more a eulogy than anything else, so in order for this piece to dig deeper into Reed's life, more sources would need to be talked to to gain a larger picture of his life.
I would have liked to have read a little more about Reed's influences, his life, and how he got into his career in the first place. It would be interesting to get a few anecdotes from some of the terrified journalists who interviewed him.
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