The singer joins Cyndi Lauper's human rights awareness tour

The news that Lou Reed is going to be playing his brilliantly grim Berlin song cycle in its entirety at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in June reminds me of when he played what was then known as Hammersmith Odeon, in April 1979, a night that ended in some mayhem, with Lou smacking the proverbial fuck out of David Bowie.

The former Floyd member returns as part of European Tour

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO March 12 to 18, 1997 Jermaine Stewart, the 80s soul star whose biggest hit was "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off", dies of AIDS-related liver cancer, aged 39. Initially finding fame as a dancer on the long-running TV show Soul Train, Stewart also sang backing vocals for the likes of The Temptations, Tavares, Shalamar and Culture Club.

Learn to play like a Rolling Stone

Jack and Meg White will play London and Leeds this June

Biopic of Andy Warhol muse Factory Girl is being released as planned

The former Pavement front man joins Robert Plant at Green Man

See the man who's jammed with everyone from Hendrix to Lou Reed

Former new-wavers first tour this millennium follows 'Best of'