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Lou Reed’s Transformer hits UK albums top 40

By | Published on Thursday 31 October 2013

Lou Reed

Lou Reed’s breakthrough solo album, ‘Transformer’, is currently rising up the UK albums top 40 following the former Velvet Underground frontman’s death at the weekend, the Official Charts Company has confirmed. Co-produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson and released in 1972, the record currently sits at number 24.

Meanwhile, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has written an article for The Guardian remembering Reed, with whom he worked on their divisive collaborative album ‘Lulu’.

Ulrich wrote: “We were both outsiders, we both never felt comfortable going down the same path that everyone else was doing. Metallica’s always been autonomous, and Lou Reed is the godfather of being an outsider, being autonomous, marching to his own drum, making every project different from the previous one and never feeling like he had a responsibility to anybody other than himself. We shared kinship over that”.

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