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The Velvet Underground: Loaded

Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 24 December 1970

LOU REED HAS always steadfastly maintained that the Velvet Underground were just another Long Island rock 'n' roll band. But in the past he really couldn't be blamed much if people didn't care to take him seriously.

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