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He Got a TV Eye on You: The Ken Tucker Interview

Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, December 2000

ONE DAY, BACK in 1974, a Lower East Side resident named Ken Tucker wrote Village Voice music editor Robert Christgau an angry letter because the Voice wasn't covering the sorts of bands that Tucker was interested in reading about.

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