The Velvet Underground

The LPs - originally released on Elektra and Reprise, respectively - were her first albums to be produced by John Cale.

Lester Bangs, the narcotics-powered American rock writer, whose reports verged on performance art, described Lou Reed as a “death dwarf”, for good measure also calling him “a liar, wasted talent” and “completely depraved pervert”. Now that the “death…