Inside the Birth of the Velvet Underground

To Lou Reed, the legendarily cranky singer-songwriter, Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis was a true rarity: a music journalist that Reed actually liked. The pair encountered each other many times over DeCurtis' decades as a writer and editor, and after Reed's death in 2013, DeCurtis

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