John Cale: The Academic In Peril
Dave DiMartino, Creem, August 1981
ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE
"I don't really aim for being a 'renaissance man' or anything like that but sometimes you end up that, if you do a lot of things and you do them all well...
"But I can't understand how you can do them all well, though. Something's got to lose..."
John Cale, on if he died, how he would like to be remembered.
Total word count of piece: 2465
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