Manchester - (Ass Mess): Sometimes I fell so crappy, sometimes I feel so bad....
And this weekend Lou Reed's watershed performances in Manchester and London mark a return to the great rehashed eighties' nostalgia bandwagon that will hopefully replenish Reed's depleted coffers that years of cocaine and booze have depleted beyond his bank manager's sanity.
The singer/songwriter has been remarkably reticent about a series of lawsuits which he lost regarding the copyright authorship of numerous songs from the Walk On The Wild Side album and has delighted in churning them out on satge to post-70s audiences who either weren't alive when he first performed live thirty odd years ago or are too brain-damaged by toxic pharmaceuticals to remember the 1970s in the first place.
But at Manchester's Apollo theater he produced a credible parody on the original hits that propelled him to stardom.
A pity he didn't see the legal teams sitting in the front row noting his every claim to musical glory...
