The Velvet Underground Pt I
No Dogs in Space
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Lou Reed and Delmore Schwartz
Lou Reed was inspired by the way that Bob Dylan could elevate what was then known as pop. In his last days at Syracuse he wrote one of his best and most influential songs from this perspective written from personal experience. The song's aim was to simulate the actual feeling of doing hard drugs how both thrilling and frightening that feeling is with all of its ups and downs. Lou Reed gave the song the unambiguous title of heroin for the kingdom if I can't.
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