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Rock legend Lou Reed unveils new photo collection

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Music, writing, photography: for rock legend Lou Reed it’s all the same. That's what the former Velvet Underground frontman told France 24 as he unveiled his latest photography collection at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo. We find out more from the man himself. Also on the show: the man who created the unforgettable sound of Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, jazz drummer Manu Katché. And we poke around the underground archives of the soon-to-open regional branch of the Louvre, in Lens.

CULTURE
By Catherine Nicholson
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