Lou Reed: A Deaf Mute In A Telephone Booth
Lester Bangs, Let It Rock, November 1973
YOU WALK into the dining room of the Holiday Inn filled with expectation at finally getting to meet one of the musical and psychological frontiersmen of our time.
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