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Remembering Lou Reed's New York Album
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Remembering Lou Reed's New York Album

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Simon Sweetman
Jul 17, 2017
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Writing about Lou Reed's New York album in 2017 brings with it painful reminders that the album was released over 28 years ago (January 1989) and the last studio album to feature Lou Reed was his collaboration, last year, with Metallica for the extended practical-joke they called Lulu.

New York was, in many ways, my real introduction to Lou Reed. I grew …

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