Lou Reed on #VALUE! Vinyl #VALUE! Vinyl from Lou Reed is available for home delivery with Vinyl Records London, only £29 +P&P Berlin is the third solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in July 1973. Reed followed up his breakthrough album Transformer with my version of Hamlet. A bleak song cycle about an abusive, drugfueled relationship, its hugely ambitious but also one of the darker records ever made slow, druggy and heavily orchestrated by producer Bob Ezrin.