In June 2013, just months before he died, Lou Reed sat down at Masterdisk studios in Manhattan with his friends and co-producers Hal Willner and Rob Santos to work on a project he'd longed to do: remastering his entire RCA and Arista solo catalog. Reed was an audio obsessive, and despite failing health, he came in day after
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Lou Reed’s Final Look Back: Inside Massive New Box Set