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John Cale: The MOJO Interview

Paul Trynka, MOJO, February 2007

What drives the Velvets' viola-wielding Welsh polymath who tutored Nick Drake and Patti Smith, quit drugs for clothes and suffered 40 years of Lou Reed? "Go blindly into it," says John Cale, "That's important."

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