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#8: Lou Reed – A Foul and Bitter Interview

#8: Lou Reed – A Foul and Bitter Interview

Update: 2018-11-15
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UGLY PEOPLE GOT NO REASON TO LIVE



As a new, 22-year-old writer for The SoHo News in 1978, I was sent out to interview Lou Reed. He gave the nastiest interview of his life. Then demanded it be printed verbatim.














SoHo News, March 9-15, 1978






Lou Reed in front of his doorway. “You oughta fucking kiss the ground you’re walking on that I’m even talking to you."
(photo: Anton Perich)






The record that Reed thought was Frankie Lymon’s little brother














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#8: Lou Reed – A Foul and Bitter Interview

#8: Lou Reed – A Foul and Bitter Interview

Josh Alan Friedman