Absolutely stunning album by Lou Reed, released way back in 1972 and extremely influential, shaping a large amount of popular music for a good decade beyond that. With all the tracks written by Reed, and produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, this album undoubtedly contains some of the finest material to come out of the whole 60s/70s Manhattan underground.

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Universally recognised as Reed's finest work, "Transformer" was also the title chosen by Victor Bockris for his 1995 biography of Lou Reed.