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Lou Reed: Iron Glove, Velvet Fist

Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2007

The legendarily cantankerous Lou Reed's definition of abject misery is being interviewed by an English journalist. But get him on the right subject and he can be surprisingly pleasant. Mick Brown disarmed him with a right-left combination of Buddhism and Doc Pomus.

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