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Hasn't changed much: New York singer Lou Reed often seems incapable of stepping outside his coolly drawn persona, critic Craig MacInnis says of singer's concert at Roy Thomson Hall Tuesday night
Hasn't changed much: New York singer Lou Reed often seems incapable of stepping outside his coolly drawn persona, critic Craig MacInnis says of singer's concert at Roy Thomson Hall Tuesday night

Hasn't changed much: New York singer Lou Reed often seems incapable of stepping outside his coolly drawn persona, critic Craig MacInnis says of singer's concert at Roy Thomson Hall Tuesday night

Date3/28/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hasn't changed much: New York singer Lou Reed often seems incapable of stepping outside his coolly drawn persona, critic Craig MacInnis says of singer's concert at Roy Thomson Hall Tuesday night.
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