“Any song,” Nick Kent wrote in the NME, “that mentions oral sex, male prostitution, methedrine and valium, and still gets Radio One airplay, must be truly cool.” Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and ...

Veteran rock journalist Nick Kent has laid into Lou Reed, calling him “completely ugly” and “repugnant”. But the friendly banter ended when Kent moved on to Lou Reed. “It’s a hate/hate ...

Lou Reed faltered and fell several times in his ... his parents,” his Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale told Nick Kent in 1974. “That’s where all his best work comes from.

During the peak of glam rock popularity through the ’70s, Lou Reed released “Walk on the ... it was No. 100 on Australia’s Kent Music Report, No. 18 on Canada’s RPM, No. 13 on Ireland ...

I first met Lou what I was a teenage ragamuffin in Cleveland in 1972 — I had hitchhiked through a blinding snowstorm to get his autograph. I believe he was playing at the Music Hall, and had ...