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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Back after he’d just finished filming Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony, Lou Reed told me that “making a movie isn’t much fun because you spend most of your time just sitting around doing nothing. That’s the pleasure of playing in a rock ’n’ roll band. It’s immediate gratification.