Lou Reed: Clean Living And Dirty Looks
Chris Bohn, NME, 6 March 1982
FLANKED BY his wife Sylvia to his right and his management on his left, Lou Reed lords it over the press gathering from a sofa dead centre. Knowing he has just 20 minutes to consume in the present company, he sinks back and eases into a lengthy, somewhat guarded resume of his immediate past, fleshed out by digressions further back.
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