Long ago he had some lines to one of the discs, in my opinion, more 'timeless' in the history of those not being made according to prevailing assumptions at the time they were created, and most are with you unwittingly become part of your life.

Transformer (RCA, 1972), thanks to the important collaboration of David Bowie, has a strong sense of identity.
If we analyze it carefully, we will soon agree that to some extent, this album is a tribute to the hugely influential Warhol scene.

Lou Reed once said that he had no idea where they came from the likes of the people, he only wrote about people he knows or has known in the places you've been and who admired Andy until today.

Andy Warhol was crossed with the Velvet Underground group in 1965. Soon he becomes their manager, but their support went far beyond: from to feed them when they passed in The Factory (invited everyone to the street and paid the account by commercial art) to get the equipment necessary for their trials .

"The Factory? It was the place where Warhol painted his pictures and filming movies. It was that kind of 'hub' where people would meet occasionally to exchange creative ideas.
It was a kind of laboratory.

By then, many groups sing about love or how to get girls at a party. The Velvet.
Musicians of the time say that you could sit with them and try a theme, like you're part of the band.

Undoubtedly it was a core group for a huge number of artists. A very curious to say about it:

It is said that the Velvet Underground did not sell many records, but that small group of people who bought one ended up starting a band.

Speaking on the latter, Reed declare:

If that were true, I would like a portion of their royalties ... I do not know if it's true ... I never cared about the credibility, except mine.
I always thought we were the best and still think.

When Lou leaves the Velvet Underground, the mid-1970s, literally disappeared from the music scene.
He walked away from everything that had any link with what I had been doing so far: He took a job as a typist in the firm of his father.

Reed himself says that there was a huge problem with the representative, which forced him to step aside to try to "heal their wounds."
In the midst of this process ended up recording a solo album, which when recorded in London with the collaboration of classical musicians (a group member YES progressive among them) was not representative of their sound.

This self-titled work "under the RCA label - was a total failure, except an editor of Rolling Stone (which called it a 'near perfect').
The label then gave him a second chance and that's when you cross David Bowie in his way.

era de la opinión que todo lo que sonaba bien venía de Londres . RCA took advantage of the 'chameleon' was visiting the city, so he decided to present it to Lou Reed: On the one hand, they thought Bowie was a very contemporary artist on the other hand, Lou was of the opinion that everything that sounded good came from London.

The Englishman was surprised that Reed would like to work with him as his producer, because he felt intimidated by all that Brooklyn had done until then.
que Bowie ya dominaba en ese entonces. Underlying all this is, arguably, that Lou wanted to go with pop music to the public that Bowie had mastered at the time.

Having someone like David Bowie among his colleagues, made many eyes turn to him and were outstanding in the quality of work that both achieved.

The girls never cried ... I shouted to David but I do not ... to me and thugs threw syringes onstage ... This is a great verse, is not it, Lou Reed.

But not only Bowie would be responsible for the production of Transformers: Beside tended to Mick Ronson, guitarist, composer and fellow traveler in the group Ziggy Stardust's Spiders from Mars.

Lou established a good relationship with both, making this kind of 'symbiosis' which was also next to the Velvet, something important than their first album lacked.
Return to London again but this time, next to David and Ronno.

Transformer has a lot of Velvet, but it is an album based on them: It was another material, a completely new project.
Reed realized that he could not follow that line because I could not get them because they sound like to start, he had a band.
He saw the need to work with 'session musicians': Lou just went over the songs with them, that is, the central structure and melody.
It raised the idea of achieving a basic configuration that Bowie wore at that time.

It is said that Reed was, so to speak, quite 'relaxed': He entered the studio, bowed, sat in a chair and took the guitar. He was always out of tune, but they blame the instrument.
Often not understood very well what they wanted to express Ronno: The latter had to repeat things several times until the desired sound is achieved.

Lou noted that understands what they are about the songs when interpreted to the public.
Over the years he realized that the topic "Satellite of Love" (with a very good performance of Bowie on backing vocals) on the bottom speaks of jealousy.
Indeed. que va más allá de la misma obsesión… It is a title that speaks of obsession, stalking someone, but still stands as an endearing ballad in the background, emphasizes the romance that goes beyond the same obsession ...

The concept developed in this album is very significant because to some extent, is the same as was offered to people belonging to the circle of Warhol: A group of foreign artists who were turned and showed her inner beauty, regardless of the eccentric and rare forms it could take.

Many say that what Reed wanted to show was what he had lived in The Factory, when I saw the parade of personalities who came from every nook and socio-cultural levels of people to interact, to mix and be part of that show.
Lou always had a little notebook in which he wrote down the phrases that he considered significant.

There is a book by an American writer Nelson Algren called entitled Walk On The Wild Side. It speaks of society's dispossessed, the excluded.
Reed read it once and it seemed very good. Years later he found himself working with people who wanted to make a play and they were looking for a song for it, I should be like his trademark.

”, el cual se vio obligado a reescribir para incluir en ella a los personajes de 'la factoría de Warhol '… Lou had already by then the song "walk on the wild side", which was forced to rewrite it to include the characters 'Warhol's factory' ...

Candy, Jackie and Holly were transsexuals ... never wanted to act like men. Candy, especially, was very feminine.

In this theme, the rhythm of bass and sax unforgettable, there is a character who is known as' sugar plum fairy ', which translated would be something like' the fairy sugar. "
Who referred Reed? Well after much speculation about it was learned that he was a drug dealer, a dealer in San Francisco in which he heard at The Factory and whose name he could not ignore.

Contrary to what Lou thought, this song achieved an unusual success. Not bad considering that the radio stations reached almost by accident (Johnny Walter, a BBC broadcaster, chose to represent the Transformer, which was to be presented as album of the week) and almost no one understood what it was in the beginning.

A subject line that says "but she never lost her head, Even When She Was Given head."
Apparently, by then the directors of the BBC seemed to know the meaning of "Giving head" (oral sex), so the air as is released.

Young people soon realize and proclaim from the rooftops that the major British chain had let that little detail.
Consequently, the fame of "walk on the wild side" was increasing exponentially.

Many pop lyrics can not be read like poetry. They are fully connected with music: When you separate from it, they sound pretty strange.
But Reed's lyrics can be read well on paper, like brilliant poems.
An example? "Andy's chest" ("Andy's Chest")

I will not explain. Only I'll tell you what I felt before the attack on Andy. It is a love song, Lou Reed.

Warhol received one day a screenplay by a woman named Valerie Solanis, but not read, probably left him with another pile of papers and forgot.
She somehow felt that Andy was trying to 'psychological control' and the only way to get rid of it, was shot but not to the point of killing him.

However, everything is out of control: Six bullets in his chest left him traumatized for the rest of his life.
This happened in 1968.

siempre se le identificó con Nueva York . Often described as a poet, Lou Reed is always identified with an American city in particular: In the same way that the Beatles are associated with Liverpool, but not so universally known, "Reed always be identified with New York.

This is seen in the urban quality that has its work: It would be very unusual to find a title of ownership to speak of rivers running, mountains, trees, etc.
And is that all he did was influenced by a very New York experience.

y Bowie cantando en vivo, acompañados sólo de bajo, piano y platillos. From there to record the song "New York Telephone Conversation", the shortest of the entire album : Lou and Bowie singing live, accompanied only by bass, piano and cymbals.
A large portrait of society at that time, he spoke of a meeting of 'strangers' that took place in a very small club south of Park Avenue.

Lou explained that whenever there are parts of the personality and personal experience of each one involved in things that are written, without going so far as to say that Shakespeare was like Hamlet, Macbeth or King Lear.

The express those ideas about sex, homosexuality and drugs so brilliantly, had much influence on later artists work and also succeeded in getting an image among people who say much of himself, it might be perceived in that look deep immortalized on the cover of Transformer.

Speaking on the front and back covers, was Bowie's ex-wife who took care to dress Lou: Thanks to her was that he ended up using stones in several photo shoots of those times, something that feels very far proud.

The makeup I wore was the one that was fashionable in Japan: I removed the color from the face and, as he had always been known as 'the New Yorker pale', emulated his nickname by trying to look as if he had not a drop of blood in his veins.

The controversial cover of the album was originally to be released to the market as cover.
entre las piernas para que asemejara un ' enorme paquete ' debajo de los vaqueros) posando al costado de una 'mujer'. It saw a friend of Ernie Lou - (which they put a banana between your legs to look like a 'huge package' under the jeans) posing alongside a 'woman'.

Historically, onlookers wondered if the woman up there, or if both women and men, were the same Reed.
He said that the fact that people thought could be the two was very funny because if so, he would have crossed his mind to also be the 'other side'.

Anyway, Transformer album is seen as the master of that time, perhaps only comparable to Ziggy Stardust.
Perhaps the two they are, but Lou was the one that perfectly reflected the summer of '72.

The connoisseurs say that what the cover really represents is the decline of glam.

The 'glam rock' and 'glitter rock', for many of those present at the time, ranging from how to dress to sexual identity.
Lou knew that these currents were in vogue, so I decided to take that direction: No it was not difficult because he had like 1000 people engaged in them turning in front of you.

I've always heard that the best compositions are nothing didactic Reed: "He does not say if this is right or what is wrong, only tells you what it is and makes you think."
It's like take one chair to sit in front of you and put a conversation with you.

después de haber sido escrita. And if we speak of timeless songs, "perfect day" is a redundancy-worth-perfect example: It became number one in England 25 years after it was written.

It generates a lot of confusion when the 'experts' talk about who is the best singer or which of them is the best guitarist, they seem to have the tendency to compare their qualities with some sort of Olympic achievement: Some verbal acrobatics or the thousand notes per second that plays such a person.

So really not much to see. It's like painting: There are some who can paint a scene to perfection in ten years and there are some who give two strokes and get the same result.
Like many think that the greater the talent, fewer "touches" will need to compose a good song.

, sino también de que es posible olvidar, aunque sea por unos momentos, la terrible realidad: “ I thought I was someone else, Someone good ”. "Perfect day" itself is a fantasy that does not speak only reap what you sow, but that is impossible to forget, even for a moment, the terrible reality: "I Thought I Was someone else, Someone good" .

A raw and intense issue that spoke of Lou's addiction to heroin. A very dark feeling of fear, to be taking over from him in time to a beautiful melody.

Every song I've written in my life, I have tried to write emotionally. Each subject was an approach to an emotion and always portray a conflict, Lou Reed.

Transformer was, is and will be a record for other interesting. That also proved successful, it's just a coincidence ...

It's just an album ... just songs on a record ... you know, you make a disc but still have the rest of your life ahead of Lou Reed.

César Pinto, NadaBueno.com