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The Motorcycle Boy tribute to an old Velvet Underground song, written by band member Lou Reed.

Velvet Underground was managed by Andy Warhol (note the Warhol banana still in the video, the original Velvet Underground album cover).

Pic, Lou Reed and Nico (Christa Päffgen, a German-born model, actress and singer. Nico, when 15, was "raped by a US Air Force sergeant who was tried and shot for his crime" in Berlin, 1953. Nico died in 1988.)

Velvet Underground was one of the bands MGM wanted to kick off it's label, for their overt sensationalism of drug use (another was Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention).

Related, just barely, a good eread... "The Big Five Motorcycle Boys in Tennessee Wilds"
or
The Secret of Walnut Ridge
by Ralph Marlow, 1914

This is a long but fast read, and given the year it was written you will find some politically incorrect passages.

But, I enjoyed it, given the geography is familiar.

Just, today, no moonshiners...

OK, damnit, here's the original "Run, Run, Run" by Velvet Underground (1966)


Which version is better? There's only one 'version' on the page.
A version, and the Original.
'nuff said...

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