Lewis Hodgson: It was probably 2000, so I would’ve been nine turning 10. My family had just got dial-up internet at home and my dad was trying to download Lou Reed’s Transformer off Napster, song by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vintage Vinyl News reports that a number of Reed and VU records have re-entered the charts, led by 1972's 'Transformer,' which has risen all the way to No. 30. Other titles enjoying a sales increase ...

My boyfriend recently bought me Lou Reed’s Transformer on vinyl and it’s quickly become one of the more worn-out records in my collection, mainly on the strength of “Satellite of Love.” Man, I love ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

So I went into a charity shop and found Lou Reed's Transformer for the bargain price of 3 quid. Little did I know, because I'm an idiot and didn't check, that it was in piss poor condition so it ...