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VARIOUS ARTISTS I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico VERVE

FOR many years, Hal Willner co-ordinated the music sketches on revered US TV sketch show . At other times he could be found curating multi-cast tributes to the work of songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill and Thelonious Monk. Or convincing The Replacements to sing Disney tunes. Or soundtracking Robert Altman films. Or producing albums for Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson and Allen Ginsberg. His skill was

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