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Written by: Lou Reed
Produced by: Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson
Released: March '67 on Verve
Charts: Non-single
The Velvets married R&B rhythm-guitar workouts and blues-piano stomp to dreamy art drones and a story about scoring twenty-six dollars' worth of heroin in Harlem. "Everything about that song holds true," said Reed, "except the price."
Appears on: The Velvet Underground and Nico (Polygram)