Magic and Loss

Magic and Loss is a concept album by Lou Reed, released in 1992. It was his sixteenth album. It was inspired in part by the illnesses and eventual deaths of two close friends: songwriter Doc Pomus, who gave Reed his start in the music business some 25 years earlier, and 'Rita.' Some in the music community have assumed this to be Rotten Rita, who along with Reed was a familiar figure at Andy Warhol's Factory in the mid-to-late '60s. Photos of Pomus and a woman's face of who can be assumed again as 'Rita' can be seen at the center of the lyric booklet included with the CD release. A live performance filmed on March 18, 1992 at Pinewood studios in London was released on VHS and LD. The single "What's Good / The Room", released in March,...