Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio | Pop review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonLou Reed has promised "a night of deep noise" based around Metal Machine Music, the notorious hour of howling feedback that nearly killed his career stone dead on its release in 1975. Whatever that means, the assembled audience is certainly diverse, testament to the weird allure of Metal Machine Music, either as an act of impressively monumental petulance or a compelling and even oddly pretty work of art in its own right.A certain kind of rock star is also in evidence...

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