Lou Reed Remembered will air at 9pm on BBC Four this Sunday [December 15] and will include contributions from Reed's former Velvet Underground bandmates Mo Tucker and Doug Yule plus Thurston Moore and Debbie Harry.
Berlin guitarist Steve Hunter, novelist Paul Auster and photographer Mick Rock will also speak about Reed while Trash actress Holly Woodlawn will also appear.
Neil Young has announced four more tour dates for January 2014.
Young will follow his four-night residency at New York's Carnegie Hall on January 6, 7, 9 and 10 with four Canadian shows to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund.
Pixies have confirmed that bassist Paz Lenchatin, will replace Kim Shattuck for a series of live dates in America and Europe next year.
Last week Shattuck revealed that her time playing with the band had come to an end. She, herself, was a replacement for original Pixies bassist Kim Deal who departed the band prior to the release of the group's 'EP1' earlier this year. Lenchatin has previously played with Billy Corgan's Zwan as well as A Perfect Circle and The Entrance Band.
A handwritten, working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit "Born To Run" has sold for $100,000 over estimate.
The piece of rock and roll history was auctioned in Manhattan earlier this week with an estimate of $70,000 (£42,918) to $100,000 (£61,312), but actually sold for $197,000 (£120,533) by Sotheby's in New York, reports the New York Times.
The auction house said the document used to be in the collection of Springsteen's former manager, Mike Appel, but the seller was not revealed. The identity of the buyer is also a mystery.
The guitar that Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 has become the most expensive guitar ever to go up for auction.
The Fender Stratocaster was sold Friday (December 6) for $965,000 (£590,430), topping the sale price for a guitar once owned by Eric Clapton which sold for $959,500 (£587,065) in 2004, reports Spin. The sale happened at Christie's in New York City and the guitar was bought by an absentee buyer. The instrument was sold with its original strap and hard shell case.
Neil Young And Crazy Horse will headline a huge outdoor show at London's Hyde Park on Saturday July 12 next year.
They'll be joined at Barclaycard British Summer Time by special guests The National, Tom Odell, Caitlin Rose, Phosphorescent and Flyte.
Earlier this year, Neil Young And Crazy Horse cancelled a number of gigs after guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro sustained an injury.
As he prepares to release his new film, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary film director?
Joe Strummer, Tom Waits, Jack White, Iggy Pop... are there any other rock stars he'd like to cast in his films?
What are his memories of the No Wave scene in late Seventies New York?
What was it like working with Neil Young on Dead Man and Year Of The Horse?
There are some things you never expect to see. Take, for example, a live performance of “Parallelograms”; a song of uncanny atmospheres and dynamics, recorded in 1970 by a dental hygienist with only a fleeting involvement with the music business.
