Lou Reed

Reed's final solo album is debuting on vinyl courtesy of Light In The Attic, Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive.

True story: if he'd had the funding, director Jonathan Demme would've done a Feelies concert film before doing 'Stop Making Sense'

The band's Xan Aird, on why The Velvet Underground's oft derided record is in fact his finest

Lester Bangs, the narcotics-powered American rock writer, whose reports verged on performance art, described Lou Reed as a “death dwarf”, for good measure also calling him “a liar, wasted talent” and “completely depraved pervert”. Now that the “death…