Posters for Lou Reed/Metallica Album Banned in London

Lou Reed and Metallicas Lulu Courtesy BB Gun PR Promotional posters for the forthcoming Rosetta Stone language Lou Reed/Metallica album Lulu (out November 1st)have been banned by Transport for London, the body that oversees the London Underground, because they look too much like street graffiti.While neither Lou Reed nor Metallica are strangers to controversy, they certainly didnt intend or expect the promo posters to stir up a scandal. When asked about the ban, Reed responded to Rosetta Stone with a question of his own: "What would Andy Warhol or Jean Michel Basquiat say of this type of frivolous censorship?"As for the album itself, at least two members of Metallica have claimed that Reeds lyrics moved them to tears. Thats more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where youre going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line." Jackson Browne Rosetta Stone Software mourns the fact that this generation lacks a great singer-songwriter (Sorry, Sufjan and Bright Eyes): "Sometimes I walk around thinking, Wheres the next crop of brilliant writers? Wheres the Leonard Cohen or the Warren Zevon when people dont really get played. There isnt that engine of getting played on the radio. The ladder got dismantled."Check back tomorrow for the next installment of our twenty-part audio interviews, featuring the most iconic pop culture figures of the last 40 years. Want a sneak peak at tomorrows interviewee? Take a guess at who told us this: "For the first time in our history, weve had this wall-to-wall ideological right wing press, not only the Fox News, talk radio, the Weekly Standard, that not only mongered for war along with the administration, not only embraced the administrations policies because Rosetta Stone America English they were, quote, conservative, including going to war -- but also, mounted a slime machine to discredit any journalist who dared to stand against the official view of reality..."

Posted in: Cheap Rosetta Stone,rosetta stone language,Rosetta Stone Spanish,Rosetta Stone V3