Martin Aston

“Lou could be a little cold but if he admired you, you were in for life…” Keith Richards, Rickie Lee Jones and more cover the late Lou Reed on the new tribute album The Power Of The Heart.

I talked to Bill Bentley - the Texas-based writer, one-time Sterling Morrison bandmate, Lou Reed’s US publicist from 1988 to 2004 and producer of tributes to Roky Erickson, Skip Spence and Doug Sahm - about the former Velvet Underground leader and solo voyager, and the album he organised in tribute to him. I also spoke with Lucinda Williams and Rufus Wainwright. Find it here