My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou ReedHardcover, 304 pages 6 9 in. 15. 24 22. 86 cm. During his first major sit down with the music press in 1977, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge, Elvis Costello casually remarked, "I don't really listen to Lou Reed's records, but I never miss an interview with him." Indeed, for all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular, during his long career as a rock artist, Lou Reed was