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Lou Reed: Re-issues

Andy Gill, Q, May 1992

IT'S OFTEN OVERLOOKED in the face of the wholesale "decadent" mythology that has surrounded him since the early Velvet Underground, but of all the poets of urban alienation inhabiting rock music, Lou Reed has always had the most redemptive spirit.

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