Lou Reed: Rock N Roll Animal (RCA)
Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
IT'S JUST like Lou Reed to follow the worst album by a major artist in 1973 (Berlin), with what might be his best album since the watershed Loaded, the last real Velvet Underground recording.
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