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The Velvet Underground Pt I

No Dogs in Space

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Lou Reed Is a Naughty Person

Lou Reed was born Lewis Allen Reed in Brooklyn New York on March 2nd 1942. He came from a very regular middle-class Jewish family and his dad Sydney who changed his name from Rabina wits he was an accountant and his mom Toby you know Lou's mom she was a sonographer like a secretary like a famous lady turned homemaker once she married Sydney. His parents lived in Brooklyn until he was about nine when they were finally able to afford to buy their own house in free port Long Island that was about an hour drive from Brooklyn.

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