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[[File:image002.jpg|thumb|400px|The Velvet Underground. And [[Nico]]. Oh, and their friend [[Andy Warhol|Andy]].]]
{{quote|''Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station''
''You know, she don't believe what she heard at all''
''She started shakin' to that fine fine music''
''You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll''
|'''Rock and Roll'''}}
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{{quote|'''Lou Reed''': The engineer said, "I don't have to ''listen'' to this. I'll put it in record, and then I'm ''leaving''. When you're done, come get me."}}
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]]: ''They're the Velvet Underground''.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: "The Gift" (guy mails himself to girlfriend, gets killed), "Sister Ray" (huge debauched party, someone gets shot), "Lady Godiva's Operation" (
* [[Shout-Out]]: "Sister Ray" is named after [[The Kinks|Ray Davies]].
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: Yeah, they have one. "I Found a Reason", to be precise.
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{{quote|'''Lou Reed''': One chord is fine. Two chords... that's pushing it. Three chords and it's jazz.}}
*** Black Angel's Death Song? Avant-garde, maybe?
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** And "Candy Says."
* [[
{{quote|'''[[Word of God|Lou Reed]]''':'Sister Ray' was done as a joke—no, not as a joke—but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote about this scene of total debauchery and decay. I like to think of ‘Sister Ray' as a transvestite smack dealer. The situation is a bunch of [[Drag Queen|Drag Queens]] taking some sailors home with them, shooting up on smack and having this orgy when the police appear.}}
** "Sweet Jane". (''Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest...'')
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