Rock and Roll Heart
Called Rock and Roll Heart after Reed’s 1976album and single of the same name, the film lets Reed tell much of his own story: his teenage years as a devotee of 50s rock and doo wop, his college-days association with poet Delmore Schwartz, episodes in his life that very much came to define his art, which marries a finely-tuned literary sensibility to the simplicity and tunefulness of classic rock and roll. Reed’s warped, lyrical takes on streetlife psychodrama and his love for drone notes and feedback, however, took rock songwriting places it had never been before. At the opening of the film, Reed delivers an epigrammatic gem about himself: “I disliked groups, disliked authority. Uh… I was made for rock and roll.” (daqui)
