Lou Reed: Man Of Few Words
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
UP ON THE 37th floor of a Park Avenue office block which faces north and thus commands an extensive view of New York's Central Park and Harlem way out in the distance Lou Reed sits in a director's swivel chair and looks uncomfortable.
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