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One Day In Berlin ... Eno Came Running In And Said, 'i Have Heard The Sound Of The Future.' ... He Puts On 'i Feel Love', By Donna Summer ... He Said, 'this Is It, Look No Further. This Single Is Going To Change The Sound Of Club Music For The Next Fifteen Years.' Which Was More Or Less Right.

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One Day In Berlin

David Bowie

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One Day In Berlin ... Eno Came Running In And Said, 'i Have Heard The Sound Of The Future.' ... He Puts On 'i Feel Love', By Donna Summer ... He Said, 'this Is It, Look No Further. This Single Is Going To Change The Sound Of Club Music For The Next Fifteen Years.' Which Was More Or Less Right.

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By The Mid-'80s, It Was Really Apparent To Me That I Really Needed To Stop Losing Myself In My Work And In My Addictions. What Happens Is You Just Wake Up One Morning And Feel Absolutely Dead. You Can't Even Drag Your Soul Back Into Your Body. You Feel You Have Negated Everything That Is Wonderful About Life. When You Have Fallen That Far, It Feels Like A Miracle When You Regain Your Love Of Life.

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Lou Reed Is The Most Important Definitive Writer In Modern Rock. Not Because Of The Stuff That He Does, But The Direction That He Will Take It.

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Working Together

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No More Free Steps To Heaven.

The Underground Went Really Underground. Grand Funk, And All These People Man Are The Moderate's Choice Of Music. Underground Is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These People Scare The Hell Out Of Most Freaks. They Laugh At Yoko Ono, But It's The Whole Cliché.

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