IN reply to ‘Consign Beatles to history books’ (Letters, November 27), the Velvet Underground can’t even grace the same music store as The Beatles. A very bad singer and average, repetitive monotony. Underground music should have stayed there. Lou Reed must consider himself one of the luckiest out-of-tune buskers to ever get air time.

The Beatles are where they are in musical history for a reason. It’s a good job they had proficient session musicians and producers in Reed’s day as he fails terribly even singing his own songs.

In ‘Take Walk on the Wild Side’, the whole tune works because of the bass line, and that’s it. Had Herbie Flowers, an exeptional English session musician, not been involved the whole song would have been as dross as Lou Reed’s voice.

I’d have been impressed if he’d played the bassline and sung it at the same time but no, he can’t even manage that.

Return of the Magnificent Se7en (via website).