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John Cale: New Victoria, London

Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 29 November 1975

THERE IS MUCH FASHIONABLE TALK of John Cale as a significant artist. So far ahead of the herd is he, it is said, that terms like "ontology" and "metaphysics" can usefully be bandied about in connection with his work's supposed quest for answers to the ultimate philosophical questions which confront us all in the rock generation. Do not be misled.

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