Career Lou Reed and Metallica: Existentialist Brothers in Black Why does this unlikely pairing work? Posted November 1, 2011 Lou Reed and Metallica have just released an album together. The question is why? When Cliff Burnstein (of Q Prime Management) suggested Metallica jam with Lou Reed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in October 2009, both sides were unexcited
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