Reviews

The banana’s back. Not before time. Late last year, Lou Reed’s reputation suffered a serious blow when his ill-fated collaboration with Metallica met with hostility not witnessed since Metal Machine Music. He even had death threats. This 45th anniversary edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico is a timely reminder (if one is needed) that Reed at his best had few peers and no equals, and that his writer’s eye – literate, probing, explicit – was unflinching right from the start. He was always hardcore.

An unexpected new treat from the Hall of Famer...

More heartbreak and droll humour from one of America’s underrated greats...

Motherlode: Spanning the decades with the Man in Black—59 albums-plus, across 63 discs...

A stripped-down - yet chart friendly - return...

The classic '86 solo album, lavishly packaged with extras...

ELO man upgrades his hits and re-imagines his youth...

A real return to form, though it can't match Van's best...

Roll up for the definitive remaster of The Fab Four’s car-crash Christmas television special...

25th anniversary reissue, accompanied by contemporaneous live show...