WILL HODGKINSON
Lou Reed
By Will Hermes
Viking £25
Being abused by Lou Reed was a rite of passage for rock journalists.
‘That’s a rather pubescent question, don’t you think?’ Reed asked me in 2011, in response to what I thought was an innocuous enquiry about the influences on his old band the Velvet Underground.
Two years later, just a few weeks before his death, aged 71, on 27th October 2013, I hosted an audience Q&A with Reed and the. This time round, he was all sweetness and light – until the fan questions came.
