Lou Reed in 1966. Photograph: Adam Ritchie/RedfernsAs Todd Haynes unveils his documentary about them, we rate the best work of a band who overturned and reinvented rock’n’roll
by Alexis Petridis30. Ride Into the Sun (1969)The Velvets recorded two versions of Ride Into the Sun: a fabulous 1969 instrumental laden with fuzz guitar and a hushed 1970 vocal take backed by organ. Somewhere between the two lies one of their great lost songs; Lou Reed’s disappointingly flat 1972 solo version doesn’t do it justice at all. Read More...
TV tonightTelevisionTV tonight: a police officer is in too deep in a horribly tense thrillerMorven Christie plays a conflicted cop investigating the disappearance of twins in ITV drama The Bay. Plus: Billions is back. Here’s all the best TV to tune in for
The Bay
9pm, ITVFollowing a seemingly innocuous but, in reality, very significant start, the writer Daragh Carville has delivered a quality six-part drama. Morven Christie is a police officer becoming a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned. Read More...
TheatreReviewTrafalgar Studios, London
When positive discrimination appears to rob a boy of his college place, the racial pieties of America’s left are exposed in Joshua Harmon’s drama
The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Joshua Harmon has a gift for provocation. Read More...
