The news that Lou Reed is going to be playing his brilliantly ... Lou was in London to promote his new album, The Bells, and was in a spectacularly cantankerous mood from the off.

Lou Reed, the punk poet of rock ‘n’ roll who ... and “harridan,” but he found special magic in the word “bells,” sounding from above, “up in the sky,” as he sang on the Velvets ...

Lou Reed played: Berlin Lady day Men Of Good Fortune ... be playing anything else that night apart from his new album, The Bells, so there would, he repeated emphatically, no “Heroin ...