Transformer' was originally released by RCA Victor and spawned several completely timeless singles, among them were 'Perfect Day', 'Satellite of Love' and 'Walk on the Wild Side'.

We are available to book for live shows and events, as well as bespoke licensed music for videos, commercials, TV, film and more. Lou Reed’s second solo album Transformer is an album that everyone should own and without a doubt – Essential. This 180-gram stunner pressed at Quality Record Pressings is nearly peerless as a Southern rock record. Though Reed's self-titled debut solo album had been unsuccessful, Bowie had been an early fan of Reed's former band The Velvet Underground, and used his own fame to promote Reed, who had not yet achieved mainstream success.Originally released by RCA Records in 1972 Lou Reed’s second solo album Transformer is an album that everyone should own and without a doubt – Essential. This production had two British guardian angels to help it on its way, namely David Bowie and Mick Ronson, both of whom obviously knew how to steer Reed’s songwriting qualities into safe waters, without wavering down its biting sarcasm and humorous provocation. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. In November 1972, Transformer launched Lou Reed from the underground way up to Mars, with a little help from Starman Bowie.

In our re-releases it is our aim to faithfully reproduce the original intentions of the musicians and recording engineers which, however, could not be realised at the time due to technical limitations. Images from throughout the Seventies chronicle Lou's transformations from the unique perspective of a close friend. Companies such as DCC Compact Classics, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and others, including of course Speakers Corner, all maintained a mutual, unwritten code of ethics: we would manufacture records sourced only from analogue tapes. The record itself is graded a bit less than excellent, with one or two light surface marks when viewed under normal house lighting.Expertly remastered by Kevin Gray, lacquer plating by master technician Gary Salstrom, heavy cardboard gatefold jacket with vibrantly reproduced original artwork. His first decade of post-Velvet Underground work included some undeniable high points (BERLIN, the David Bowie-produced TRANSFORMER) but he was plagued by inconsistency. It was Reed's first producer, VU impresario Andy Warhol, who inspired the lead cut when he suggested "Vicious" as a song title. The album is considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild Side", which touched on then-controversial topics of sexual orientation, gender identity, prostitution, and drug use.