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. Rotten Rita [real name Kenneth Rapp] was a man.) 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.
Track List 1 - Dorita - The Spirit; 2 - What's Good - The Thesis; 3 - Power And Glory - The Situation; 4 - Magician - Internally; 5 - Sword Of Damocles - Externally; 6 - Goodby Mass - In A Chapel Bodily Termination; 7 - Cremation - Ashes To Ashes; 8 - Dreamin' - Escape; 9 - No Chance - Regret; 10 - Warrior King - Revenge; 11 - Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray; 12 - Gassed And Stoked - Loss; 13 - Power And Glory Part II - Magic / Transformation; 14 - Magic And Loss - The Summation. Album Track
