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Lou Reed's New Deco-Disk: Sledgehammer Blow to Glitterbugs

Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973

NEW YORK — At 10 AM on a muggy New York morning, in Studio A of the Record Plant, a slight, dark, intense young man is implanted behind the 16-track board, juggling dials and bobbing up and down to the powerful playback of Aynsley Dunbar's thudding bass drum. Bob Ezrin, boy wonder, is at work.

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