LET US NOW PPRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES
Ego? It may not be the greatest word of the 20th century, but it's sure the driving poison in the vitals of every popstar. Who else but Lou Reed would get himself fat as a pig, then hire the most cretinous band of teenage cortical cavities he could find to tote around the country on an all-time death drag tour?
WANTED
LO1J REED
DEAD OR ALIVE
(What's the difference) for transforming a whole generation of young Americans into faggot junkies.
LET US NOW PPRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES
Or, How I Slugged It Out With Lou Reed & Stayed Awake
Lester Bangs
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Ego? It may not be the greatest word of the 20th century, but it's sure the driving poison in the vitals of every popstar.
Who else but Lou Reed would get himself fat as a pig, then hire the most cretinous band of teenage cortical cavities he could find to tote around the country on an all-time death drag tour?
Who elsp would doze his way back over the pond in a giant secobarbital capsule and labor for months with people like Bob Ezrin, Steve Winwood and Jack Bruce to puke up Berlin, a gargantuan slab of maggoty rancor that may well be the most depressed album ever made?
Who else would then poke his arm so full of vigorating vitamins that he lost all that fat almost literally overnight, practically cartwheeling onstage in spastic epic(ene) colitic fits when everybody expected him to bloat up and die? Who else would make this gig looking like