Transformer

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We are available to book for live shows and events, as well as bespoke licensed music for videos, commercials, TV, film and more. 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.

years later, Lou Reed, rock icon, artist and poet, collaborated with legendary photographer Mick Rock in one of the most visually exciting books Genesis has ever produced. com put it: “Most hard rock bands would give their left arm for a record that swaggers and hits as hard as Nuthin’ Fancy. Our PVC complies with 2015 European environmental standards and does not contain toxic materials such as Lead, Cadmium or Toluene. Why then compare this highly original music mix with others, when it’s so much easier to hear this record for what it is - a truly cult album?It was described as “A stunning demonstration of technique put at the service of profoundly musical ends. Each song is extremely personal and at the same time, universal; covering subjects topical, humorous, and soulful; from the satirical to the sublime. 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. It was only when when 'Walk On The Wild Side' was released as a single that the album began to take off. In November 1972, Transformer launched Lou Reed from the underground way up to Mars, with a little help from Starman Bowie.

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Speakers Corner wishes to make clear that it produces lacquers using only original master tapes and an entirely analogue cutting system. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Some records are so unbelievably repulsive," raged the magazine Rolling Stone, "that one would best like to take physical revenge on the artists who commit such offences. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

Is he or isn’t he the Chuck Berry or Sergeant Pepper of the Seventies, or is he deliberately building up an image of himself as an ultra-sensitive Frankenstein, who lived out his neuroses and drug trips in horrific sound? 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. As a matter of principle, only analogue masters are used, and the necessary cutting delay is also analogue.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Expertly remastered by Kevin Gray, lacquer plating by master technician Gary Salstrom, heavy cardboard gatefold jacket with vibrantly reproduced original artwork. Throughout his solo career he's collaborated with everyone from former bandmate John Cale to avant garde theatre king Robert Wilson.