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Lou Reed: The Bells (Arista)

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 April 1979

  • AH, THE BELLS, the bells…somehow I don't think this is what Victor Hugo had in mind all those years ago. However, what Slick Vic had in mind is currently of academic interest only (pamphlets available on request), whereas what Lou Reed has in mind is, as ever, open to conjecture.

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