The nation demanded that Lou Reed make a record with Metallica, and so it shall be

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The rock-legend collaboration that launched a million Twitter jokes (and that was just last night), the Metallica/Lou Reed record that you didn’t know you wanted is definitely in the works, according to an announcement posted on Metallica’s web site. How? And more importantly, why? Apparently, this collaboration kicked off that collaboration.