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You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
Lou Reed
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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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Brookdale Hospital
Lewis Allen Reed
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When he beat my mother it made me so mad.
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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
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