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Lou Reed: The Raven

Richard Williams, Guardian, The, 17 January 2003

IF ANYONE IS still wondering, more than a quarter of a century later, what Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music was all about, they need look no further than the opening seconds of The Raven.

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