Not a single guitar chord to be heard. There’s just something very unrock and roll about “Perfect Day”. But there is MIchael Ronson’s piano interlude. A stunning string arrangement. A tuba. And a song that was nothing like the Velvet Underground. It was Lou Reed’s poem about his girl. It wasn’t about heroin. It was about a perfect day with a girl and sangria in the park. What Reed wrote and sang is exactly what he meant.

“Just a perfect day. You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good.”