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The Only Ones

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 March 1978

IT WAS AN EVENT of no great consequence. In a swoop on EMI's press department back in spring 1974, intent only on plundering as much vinyl as I could decently get away with, I was sidetracked into listening to a tape that one of the house PRs, smirking somewhat, informed me was a rare unreleased set of Lou Reed tracks.

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