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Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed once said "if you're going to talk about greats, there is no one greater than Raymond Chandler. I mean, after reading Raymond Chandler and going on to someone else, it's like eating caviar and then turning to some real inferior dish." Lou had a simple plan: to "take the sensibility of Raymond Chandler or Hubert Shelby (sic) or Delmore Schwartz or Poe and put it to rock music." And when he formed the Velvet underground that was exactly what he did. Taking a cue from film noir and pulp fiction, Reed and company would pull back the curtain that separated pop music from the world beyond "moon and June" love songs, creating in the process a new music vérité – a rock noir, if you will.