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Lou Reed Does Not Want Anyone To Know How He Writes His Songs

Bruce Pollock, Modern Hi-Fi and Music, 1975

LOU REED THINKS he's gone as deep as he wants to go for his own mental health. If he got any deeper, he'd wind up disappearing. Or so he says.

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