Lou Reed's Words & Music, May 1965 captures a rock legend in the process of being born
According to the liner notes by Don Fleming and Jason Stern, archivists at the Lou Reed Archives, the demo tape featured on Words & Music, May 1965—the inaugural volume in a series of archival releases on the boutique reissue imprint Light in the Attic—sat behind the desk in Reed’s office sealed in an envelope for…