Lou Reed – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonOne song in, a foolhardy masochist dares to commit heckler's hara-kiri. "Louder!" he shouts at Lou Reed. "Not loud enough for ya, asshole?" the septuagenarian God of Grump barks back, to thankful cheers that age and frailty haven't neutralised his acid tongue. He remains musically misanthropic, too, performing tours of improvised noise barrages inspired by his fan-scattering 1975 album Metal Machine Music and collaborating with Metallica on Lulu, 90 long minutes of mon...

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