We might have banned them to prevent anyone else listening to the agonising Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration. But bosses for Transport for London, who run the London Underground, have banned promo posters promoting the forthcoming album Lulu, not for the public good, but because they look too much like graffiti.
The controversial album cover, which was featured on the posters, has a limbless mannequin with the album name ‘Lulu’ written across it in what appears to be blood. See the cover art below:
Rolling Stone contacted Lou Reed to get his take on the ban, to which he replied “What would Andy Warhol or Jean Michel Basquiat say of this type of frivolous censorship?”
The much anticipated collaboration has been panned by critics after a 30 second extract was leaked on to the internet last week. We’ve embedded the snippet below but we do warn you that it truly is terrible.
