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HERE’S proof, if any were needed, that John Cale is rock’s all-seeing eye. When Cale invited Kurt Vile to join him to play “Run Run Run” to mark 50th anniversary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2017, how else could he have known that this was the very VU number that Vile used to cover in high] for ‘!”

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