Lou Reed saw rock music as dark literature. “Let’s take Crime and Punishment,” he said, “and turn it into a rock and roll song.“

Lou Reed saw rock music as dark literature. “Let’s take Crime and Punishment,” he said, “and turn it into a rock and roll song.“
‘The Outsider’ written by a 24-year-old Englishman in the Reading Room of the British Museum while he was living in a sleeping bag on London’s Hampstead Heath.