Well, the light bulb died too, at a stretch, Max and a live Lou favourite was The Day John Kennedy Died. But I take your point.
Bill
> On 6 Nov 2013, at 5:55 pm, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I may be the only person on this list not to know Lou Reed's sound or lyrics or story - till I saw some obituaries…
>
> (Your title, Bill, covers less than half your lines, but I guess that's no problem.)
>
> good funny memories well evoked.
>
> Max
>
>> On 06/11/2013, at 6:53 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> The Day Lou Reed Died
>>
>> Not a Perfect Day for liver-ravaged Lou
>> or perhaps it was, surrounded bedside
>> by friends and family, as reported.
>>
>> Lou's 'Transformer' was on constantly
>> at a party I went to in Balwyn one night,
>> in 1973 it must have been. And I mean
>>
>> someone just put the stylus back on
>> as soon as 'Goodnight Ladies' finished.
>> Didn't sound repetitive; we just got more
>>
>> and more absorbed in that brittle world.
>> Finishing playing pool in a sunken rumpus
>> room later, no one could find the light switch
>>
>> so John Kenneth simply punched the globe,
>> shattering it and leaving little shards on cloth.
>> Back upstairs they were still listening to Lou.
>>
>> 'Sa - da - lite of love ...'
>>
>> Leaving the party, scenes of disarray -
>> overflowing ashtrays and spilled drinks
>> and in the corner on a beanbag, Jim H
>>
>> coiled up, headphones on,
>> still wild siding with Lou.
>> Vale Transformer.
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