RCA Records made a radio spot for the release of “Transformer” that may have been amusing, disturbing or both to Reed. Over a medley of the most hard-rocking moments of the album, the announcer reads: ...

With Reed-ian concision, the character cut through the tangle of a mutual appreciation society that Reed and David Bowie had built with 1972’s Transformer. Before the two iconoclasts teamed up, Bowie ...

Originally released in 2001, director Bob Smeaton's 80 minute Classic Albums: Transformer was universally praised for its well-constructed anatomy of a touchstone album. Now expanded to interweave the ...

Felix Bushe: Lou Reed’s Transformer is one of my all-time favourite albums. My whole family would happily listen to it from start to finish in the car, often interspersed with cringy group sing-alongs ...

Effectively closing what had been a key year in glam rock, Lou Reed’s sophomore solo effort Transformer swiftly left its mark upon the face of popular culture, with the former Velvet Underground ...

Queer is also a difference. These are not facts. Mere musings. Statements I've heard before. Some days I find them agreeable. Some days not so. I contradict myself. Queer, those of us who diverge and ...

In 1972, Lou Reed's second solo album Transformer elevated him from a minor cult figure to one of the best known and most talked about artists in rock & roll, with its incisive portrait of the ...

“Follow the dotted line,” Lou Reed grumbled at me in 2004. “Look, put all the songs together and it’s certainly an autobiography – just not necessarily mine. I write about other people, tell stories, ...

Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album ...

If everybody who bought a Lou Reed album since his death started a band, there would be a whole lot more bands. Sales of Reed’s albums, both solo and with the Velvet Underground, have surged with his ...

. In light of Reed’s passing in October 2013, the timing is appropriate for such a retrospective. These titles have been available individually on standard DVD, but this is the first time they’ve been ...