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Lou Reed: Lou Reed

Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, July 1972

IF I WERE thirteen, or Lou was, or better still if we both were, this would be great, everything I wanted to think about life, sung in a studiously serious voice with as little sense of melody, timing and rhythm as my own, backed up by musicians playing as unimaginatively as anybody I knew.

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