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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ezra Furman (left), has admitted enduring inspiration from Lou Reed’s classic 1972 album (Tilje Thilesen / Getty) You can hear it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, legendary rocker Lou Reed passed away at the age of 71. (MORE: Rock Legend Lou Reed Dead at 71) Reed embodied New York cool and the downtown culture of the 1960s and ’70s. His influence — ...

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: ...

When an artist the stature of Lou Reed passes (as he did on October 27, 2013, at the age of 71), it is inevitable that people will reflect back on their experiences with that artist. For most of us, ...

The first Lou Reed song I ever really listened to was “What’s Good?” It was 1992, and though Marky Mark had recently brought the sloping bassline from Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” to the American ...

Lou Reed died on Sunday at age 71 at his home on New York's Long Island. Liver disease was the listed cause of death. There are lots of great obituaries and remembrances of Reed, whose songwriting and ...