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John Cale/Lou Reed: 15 Minutes With You

Mark Kemp, Option, July 1990

THE HECKLER'S voice sounded its fury like a cannon about midway through Lou Reed and John Cale's performance of Songs For Drella, a pop requiem the two wrote in memory of their late friend and mentor, Andy Warhol. "Tell us something we don't know," came the gunfire.

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