How do I get iTunes to 'forget' songs which were on a harddrive which is no longer connected?

I had an external hardrive connected to my computer which I stored my music on. It suffered a head crash and is no longer available, but iTunes insists on listing all the songs and will only give me an error message if I try to play one of them.
I just want to tell iTunes to check all the songs listed and delete from the list those not available. Shouldn't be too complicated, but I can't find any way of doing it.

One way to identify the broken links in your library is to create this set of playlists:
Lost & Found playlists
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your lost tracks will be in this playlist. Use CTRL+A to select them all and SHIFT+DELETE to delete them.
Or use iTunes Folder Watch and enable its option to check for dead tracks on startup.
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