Lou Reed Goes Back to “Berlin”

Photo: Dyson/Getty Lou Reed recalls very little about the creation of his third solo album, 1973’s critically lambasted Berlin. “I remember I had wanted to write something like A Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, except with guitar and drums,” Reed explains. “The idea was absurdly simple: Records have 12 or 14 [...]

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