Richard Robinson

As producer, Richard Robinson's main credential is doing Lou Reed's first solo album, and generally aiding Reed in making the transition from ex-Velvet Underground leader to solo star. At the beginning of the 1970s, Robinson was hardly the kind of industry vet one might have assumed would qualify for work with an artist of Reed's stature. He had done records for the Flamin' Groovies and Hackamore Brick, both cultish back-to-basics bands that drew huzzahs from some rock critics, and have in retrospect been lauded by some writers as vague antecedents of new wave, as the groups r...