Lou Reed's Transformer Springsteen comes a beautifully crafted book

comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us

This book contends that despite a reputation for being beatless

They knew they couldn’t play in the same band because they’d argue too much

when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel

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Lou Reed's Transformer Springsteen comes a beautifully crafted bookTransformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these descriptors. Buried underneath the radio friendly exterior lie coded confessions of the subversive, wounded intelligence that gives this album its staying power as a work of art. Here Lou