Street Hassle (150 Gram Vinyl, Remastered)

Personnel: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, piano, bass); Bruce Springsteen (spoken vocals); Stuart Heinrich (guitar, background vocals); Michael Fonfara (piano); Marty Fogel (saxophone); Steve Friedman (bass); Michael Suchorsky (drums); Aram Schefrin (string arrangement); Jo'Anna Kameron, Angela Howard, Christine Wiltshire, Genya Ravan (background vocals).Engineers: Heiner Friesz, Manfred Schunke, Rod O'Brien.Live tracks recorded in Munich, West Germany. Studio tracks recorded at the Record Plant, New York, New York.Crossing the wrong side of the tracks, as most of Lou Reed's albums do, 1978's STREET HASSLE is the angrier, younger sibling to Reed's eloquent, mature NEW YORK, released over a decade later. The centerpiece of STREET HASSLE, the handsome, hypnotic and brutal title track evolves in three "symphonic" movements, and is a powerful, theatrical precursor to Reed's work with John Cale on SONGS FOR DRELLA and director Robert Wilson on the operatic TIME ROCKER. Bruce Springsteen makes an