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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

You can hear it in her sound. The raw crackle. The often distorted guitars. The slightly haughty vocals. Reed’s fingerprints are all over Furman’s music. And, in her own words, Transformer “had a lot ...

. 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 ...

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: ...

Genesis Publications will reissue 'Transformer,' a photography book collaboration between Lou Reed and Mick Rock, in honor of the album's 45th anniversary Just before his death in 2013, musician, poet ...

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 ...

The rock icon's catalog of albums sold 3,000 last week -- up 607 percent from less than 1,000 the week previous. By Keith Caulfield, Billboard Lou Reed, the enlightened singer-songwriter whose walk on ...

He works in mysterious ways.