Photo: Bill Ray (from Life magazine’s 1965 Hells Angels assignment)
Lou Reed, the leader of the Velvet Underground, told me that the 1965 Who electrified him into writing songs for the Velvets, which connected with the street lives of the kids around the jukebox, rather than with their fantasies – whether plastic or plausible.
Geoffrey Cannon, ‘The Who on record’ The Guardian (September 3, 1971), 8.
