Its a perfect day song1/7/2024 ![]() Transformer was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, who especially outdid himself on piano, and the poignant string arrangements on ‘Perfect Day’. The album was released on RCA’s orange label Dynaflex made with re-ground rather than virgin vinyl – so flexible that you could practically see through it. Andy Warhol’s superstars (Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis and Joe Dalessandro) are name-checked on the timeless track, ‘Walk on the Wild Side’. ![]() Transformer was an accurate portrait of early 1970s New York City.’s wilder side. Although it is meant to resemble a deep brass ‘Oom Pah’ band, the track could easily fit on the Cabaret film soundtrack. In fact, the last song on Transformer, ‘Goodnight Ladies’ with its horns and tuba herald the sound of Berlin. Transformer was the popular precursor to Reed’s early career killer – the ghostly, ghastly, beautiful and uber-depressing album Berlin, concerning drugs, betrayal, abuse, suicide, sexual depravity, apathy – the gamut of song topics from his former band, The Velvet Underground – converging in the lives of two wretched people in a decadent city. He was a master of this – because he actually lived that life. Reed could eloquently condense the personalities and saga of a subculture into a dark, yet beautiful haiku. Lou always had a knack for clearly illuminating urban underbellies, mainly New York and Berlin. ‘Perfect Day’ is a perfect song from a perfect album – Lou Reed’s Transformer (1972).
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