Friends, colleagues, poets, sometime label mates and full-time figureheads (and survivors) of one of New York City’s most vibrant and violent eras, Patti Smith and Lou Reed occupied a similar stratum of rock history. But Smith — who first met Reed during the Velvet Underground’s legendary 1970 stand at Max’s Kansas City…

Source: RollingStone
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