Sister Ray
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title:
Sister Ray
text:
"Sister Ray" is a song by the Velvet Underground that closes side two of their 1968 album White Light/White Heat. The lyrics are by Lou Reed, with music composed by John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker and Reed. The song concerns drug use, violence, homosexuality, and transvestism. Reed said of the lyrics: "'Sister Ray' was done as a joke—no, not as a joke, but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote abo
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1968 song by the Velvet Underground
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Ray
date created:
2005-07-21T08:57:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T21:19:03Z
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