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Happy Birthday Lou Reed
The career of Lou Reed defied capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he made over his image...
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The Velvet Underground
Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground