The Velvet Underground: Mo Tucker
Mary Harron, NME, 2 May 1981
LIKE STERLING MORRISON, Maureen Tucker went in the opposite direction when she left the Velvet Underground in 1971. She moved back to Long Island, became a computer programmer, and eventually married a Mr. Mikulka, a successful electrical engineer.
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