Lou Reed Solo Albums Collected in New Box Set

Legacy Recordings has announced Lou Reed – The RCA & Arista Album Collection, a forthcoming box set collecting sixteen of the late Lou Reed‘s solo albums. It will be released on October 7. The collection includes the fourteen studio albums Reed recorded for RCA and Arista between 1972 and 1986, from 1972′s self-titled album to 1986′s Mistrial. It also includes the live albums Rock n Roll Animal and Lou Reed Live: Take No Prisoners. The recordings were remastered by Reed in the months before his October 2013 death, and will be accompanied by memorabilia from his archive, photos and artwork, liner notes written by longtime collaborator Hal Willner, and more. “Lou put his heart into remastering these records,” Laurie Anderson, Reed’s widow, said in a press release. “They are not smoothed out. Sometimes remastering revealed their details and roughness in the most exciting ways. They leap out at you with their original energy.” Willner, meanwhile, referred to the collection as “Lou’s last project.”

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