STREET HASSLE: LOU REED'S ODE TO RICK RASMUSSEN

Rick Rasmussen won the 1974 United States Surfing Championships at more or less the exact moment Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal went to the front of my small but not-unworthy record collection, and I've come to believe that the two men, together, planted a seed from which my fascination and love for New York would sprout, grow, and blossom. Rasmussen was 19 and a total unknown to us West Coast gr...

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