The Velvet Underground Pt I
No Dogs in Space
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The Influence of Bob Dylan on Pop Music
Reed took a lot of direct influences from Alan Ginsburg Hubert S. Burroughs he took from Delmore shorts especially that now he has somebody that he can talk to go back and forth on this that he's able to transpose this into his short stories and poems that he's writing yeah now shorts was Lou Reed's mentor when it came to writing but as far as influences for the music world went the person who changed what Reed thought was possible when it cameto pop music was Bob Dylan's specifically on his breakthrough album The Free Wheeling Song. Back then pop music was a catch-all term rather than a genre designation i.e. anything that was popular was pop and
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