Growing Up In Public Lou Reed

• 1How Do You Speak To An Angel04:08
• 2My Old Man03:15
• 3Keep Away03:31
• 4Growing Up In Public03:00
• 5Standing On Ceremony03:32
• 6So Alone04:05
• 7Love Is Here To Stay03:10
• 8The Power Of Positive Drinking02:13
• 9Smiles02:44
• 10Think It Over03:25
• 11Teach The Gifted Children03:20
• Total Runtime36:23

Info for Growing Up In Public

„Growing Up in Public was a transitional album for Lou Reed; it was his last set with his long-running road band (dominated by keyboardist Michael Fonfara), and while the fleshed-out arrangements are of a piece with Reed's work on Rock & Roll Heart and The Bells, the lyrics of the best songs anticipate the directly personal, emotionally naked songwriting that marked the two extraordinary albums that would follow, The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts. 'How Do You Speak to an Angel,' 'My Old Man,' and 'Standing on Ceremony' deal with Reed's family issues with a direct force he hadn't summoned since 'Kill Your Sons' (we'll leave it to others to debate their accuracy), and 'So Alone' and 'Keep Away' both offer a trenchant but heart-rending look at modern relationships. And 'The Power of Positive Drinking' is amusing, but rather surprising coming from a guy who would give up alcohol and drugs a year after this was released. Growing Up in Public didn't get much notice on its initial release, but all these years later it sounds like a dry run for what was to be the most creatively fruitful period of Lou Reed's solo career.“ (Mark Deming, AMG)

Lou Reed, guitar, vocals
Michael Fonfara, keyboards, guitar
Chuck Hammer, guitar, guitar synthesizer
Michael Suchorsky, drums
Ellard 'Moose' Boles, bass, background vocals
Stuart Heinrich, guitar, background vocals

Recorded in 1980 at Air Studios, Montserrat
Engineered by Corky Stasiak
Produced by Michael Fonfara, Lou Reed

Digitally remastered

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